Title: Jim Hession /Mike Fulton/ Rosetta/ Earl Fatha Hines
Description: http://www.artistopia.com/hessionsession "Rosetta", one of the best known compositions by jazz piano pioneer, Earl "Fatha" Hines, is a spontaneous performance by Jim Hession and trumpeter Mike Fulton. "Fatha" Hines, an early protege of Eubie Blake, came to prominence in the late 1920's, recording duets with Louis Armstrong. Hines was the pioneer of "trumpet style" piano, with the right hand taking prominent leads with the left hand supporting with accented figures. Jim and Martha traded musical ideas with "Fatha" and Eubie at Hines' Michael's Pub gig in NYC following a Town Hall Concert with Jim and Eubie in 1974. "Rosetta" is included in EBM6 (Eubie Blake Introducing Jim Hession)as a piano solo.

Title: Earl Hines & His Orchestra - Deep Forest
Description: Earl Hines was a brilliant pianist and bandleader, and one of the best so-called "hot jazz style" musicians This lovely piece for piano and band was recorded for Columbia on June 28th, 1932. In this performance, Hines was at the same time conductor and piano soloist.

Title: Mariela & Gabriel - lindy hop en Buenos Aires
Description: Mariela Fuhr & Gabriel Cavallini bailando lindy hop con el tema "rock and rye" de Earl Hines. www.gabrielymariela.blogspot.com

Title: How Seth learned To Solo (Part 2: Earl Hines)
Description: The second installment of the overlong (and pain-filled) rant about music, Seth explains the importance of Earl Fatha Hines in his musical development and plays several very poor renditions of extraordinarily old tunes. Part 1 Can Be Found Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGOzqUZe_Wk

Title: Art Tatum: Caravan, Dark eyes, I got rhythm; music, pictures; plays live radio program "California Melodies"
Description: From the radio program"California Melodies" 1940, Art Tatum plays live; pictures of Tatum with Earl Hines, Oscar Peterson, Errol Garner, Fats Waller and Billie Holiday, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson.

Title: Weatherbird Rag Dutch Swing College 1990
Description: Weatherbird Rag Dutch Swing College 1990 The Dutch Swing College Band performs at the 1990 Bern Jazz Festival. Clarinettist and now leader of the band Bob Kaper wrote a band arrangement for the tune Weatherbird Rag, once performed and recorded as a solo feature for Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines in 1928. There are some stunning solo chorusses by cornettist Sytze van Duin.

Title: 1995: A year in the life of artist Eugene J. Martin. Part I.
Description: http://www.artnet.com/awc/eugene-j-martin.html . This is Part I of a 2-part series showing abstract paintings (acrylics on canvas) created by visual artist Eugene James Martin in 1995 in Washington D.C. Video clip montage by S. Fredericq, filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana (LA). "When I dream of you", Music by Earl Hines and Charles Carpenter. Billy Strayhorn (piano), Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone, Harold "Shorty" Baker (trumpet), Quentin Jackson (trombone), Russell Procope (clarinet), Al Hall (bass), Oliver Jackson (drums). New York, 1959. "I'm just a lucky so-and-so", Music by Duke Ellington and Mack David. Billy Strayhorn (arranger, conductor); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Jimmy Jones (piano); Cat Anderson, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Bill Berry, Howard McGhee, Ed Mullens (trumpet); Lawrence Brown, Quentin Jackson (trombone); Chuck Connors (bass trombone); Russell Procope (clarinet, alto saxophone); Aaron bell (bass), Sam Woodyard (drums). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1961. The Stanley Dance Sessions: Billy Strayhorn & Johnny Hodges. Lone Hill Jazz (reissue 2005). http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Dance-Sessions-Billy-Strayhorn/dp/B0009RS5ZG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1213129899&sr=1-1

Title: 'Funky Cloud Blues' -David Ives, jazz piano
Description: Spontaneous jazz piano composition. Emergency navigation encounters extremeties of toxic cloud.My early influences: Oscar Peterson, Keith Emerson, George Shearing, soon followed by Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample. Today I listen to solo piano of Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Lennie Tristano, Cecil Taylor. My deepest love now lies in the music of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and later of Charlie Parker, Stan Getz. John Coltrane supreme?

Title: "Body and Soul" -David Ives, jazz piano
Description: Loose instrumental improvised arrangement on standard tune Body and Soul. Executed on Kaps Studio Upright piano. My early influences: Oscar Peterson, Keith Emerson, George Shearing, soon followed by Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample, George Duke. Today I listen to solo piano of Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Lennie Tristano, Cecil Taylor. My deepest love now lies in the music of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and later of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, John Coltrane supreme?

Title: Tight Like This -- New Black Eagles 1988
Description: Tight Like This -- New Black Eagles 1988 I have heard very few bands ever attempting to recreate this fabulous piece of music that has inspired so many of us, who try to play early jazz. This was from the very last recording Louis Armstrong did in 1928 with his Hot Five. He then called it his Savoy Ballroom Five with Don Redman on reeds and Earl Hines on piano, a classic no lover of jazz should miss from his disc collection. The Eagles do their own version of this wonderful piece with great dynamics. Take the trombone solo and hear how the dynamics are increased in the second half of his chorus and then the band falls back to just solo piano. During the brilliant cornet solo the band starts a controlled riff in the second half and in the final chorus the cornet rides even higher over a full riffing band . Great and emotional playing by this superb band from the Boston area. I'm so glad I met these musicians in the early seventies in New Orleans and our friendship has lasted through all those years. Probably my favourite band! Tony Pingle cornet, Peter Bullis banjo, Stan Vincent trombone, Pam Pameijer drums, Bob Pilsbury piano, Eli Newburger tuba and Billy Novick reeds. Recorded live at the San Diego Festival in the fall of 1988 Today almost 20 years later, they are still playing in almost the same combination. Try their website: http://www.blackeagles.com/

Title: Steve Grossman - A Night in Tunisia - Live at Gregory's
Description: ***Steve Grossman Two Tenors Quintet*** Steve Grossman - Tenor saxophone Valerio Pontrandolfo - Tenor saxophone Alain Jean-Marie - Piano Paolo Benedettini - String basso Sangoma Everett - Drums Recorded 10, 11 April, 2008 at Gregory's Jazz Club - Rome, Italy http://www.gregorysjazz.com Due to YouTube's ten minute time limit, Sangoma Everett's drum solo had to be cut. The entire version of his solo may be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr1JJcGpBoU Video editing by http://www.michaelsupnick.com "A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band. It has become a Jazz standard. It is also known as "Interlude", under which title it was recorded (with lyrics) by Sarah Vaughan. Gillespie himself called the tune, "Night in Tunisia". "A Night in Tunisia", along with "Manteca", was one of the signature pieces of Gillespie's bebop big band, and he also played it with his small groups. One of its most famous performances is Charlie Parker's recording for Dial (Dial even released a fragmentary take of it simply titled "The Famous Alto Break"); it also became closely identified with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, who often gave showstopping performances of it with extra percussion from the entire horn section. On the album A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, Blakey introduces the piece with the (probably apocryphal) story of how he was present when Dizzy composed it "on the bottom of a garbage can." The liner notes say, "The Texas department of sanitation can take a low bow." The complex bass line in the "A section" is notable for avoiding the standard walking bass pattern of straight quarter notes, and the use of oscillating half-step-up/half-step-down chord changes gives the song a unique, mysterious feeling. Like many of Gillespie's tunes, it features a short written introduction and a brief interlude that occurs between solo sections — in this case, a six-bar sequence that dramatically launches the soloist into an unaccompanied cadenza. It has been covered in various styles by various artists, including Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Maynard Ferguson, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Sonny Rollins, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Anthony Braxton, Stefano di Battista, Bobby McFerrin, Victor Wooten, The Turtle Island String Quartet, The Toasters and Chaka Khan incorporated the tune on her famous tribute album Echoes of an Era. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_Tunisia

Title: Louis Armstrong - Save It Pretty Mama For Me
Description: Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five (actually 7) performing Save It Pretty Mama For Me for Okeh in 1928. The line up included Don Redman (his arrangement) and Earl Hines.

Title: "Nocturne 1" -David Ives, pianoforte
Description: Improvised composition at keyboard. Reflective of day -into the sensuality of the night... My early influences: Oscar Peterson, Keith Emerson, George Shearing, soon followed by Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample, George Duke. Today I listen to solo piano of Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Lennie Tristano, Cecil Taylor. My deepest love now lies in the music of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and later of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, John Coltrane supreme?

Title: Simon Klages playing that standard "All Of Me"
Description: My second take on that old standard. Unfortunately the camera girl is a little annoying, but as we know that's the case with most girls from time to time ;-) Anyway I hope you enjoy the performance or - the other way around - you hate it and can give me some hints how to improve my style. THANKS

Title: Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Description: "Mona Lisa" is an Academy Award-winning song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950). The soundtrack version by Nat King Cole spent 8 weeks as number 1 in the Billboard chart in the USA in 1950. Also, Cole's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1992. In 1987, it was used as the theme of the British film Mona Lisa. An uncredited version of Mona Lisa plays in the background of one scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Various artists, including Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and Nat King Cole's daughter Natalie Cole, have released cover versions of this song. Bruddah Iz (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole) also covered the song on the album Alone in IZ World. A rockabilly version of "Mona Lisa" (b/w/ "Foolish One") was released by Carl Mann on Phillips International Records (#3539) in March 1959 and reached as high as #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Conway Twitty recorded a version of "Mona Lisa" in February 1959 but planned to release it only as an album cut (on an EP and an LP by MGM Records). Sam Phillips signed Carl Mann to record his version of the song after the Twitty version began getting radio play in early 1959. This was the most successful single in Mann's career. The melody is slightly different, and the lyrics are also mostly the same as in the original version by Nat King Cole, though a few more phrases are added in that elaborate more on the girl he likes... Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 -- February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician. Cole first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist, then switched his emphasis to singing, becoming one of the most popular and best known vocalists of all time. Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama. His birth date, according to the World Almanac, was on Saint Patrick's Day in 1919; other sources have erroneously listed his birthdate as 1917. His father was a preacher in the Baptist church. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois while he was still a child. There, his father became a minister; Nat's mother, Perlina, was the church organist. Nat learned to play the organ from his mother until the age of 12, when he began formal lessons. His first performance, at age four, was of Yes, We Have No Bananas. He learned not only jazz and gospel music, but European classical music as well, performing, as he said, "from Johann Sebastian Bach to Sergei Rachmaninoff." The family lived in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Nat would sneak out of the house and hang outside the clubs, listening to artists such as Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hines, and Jimmie Noone. He participated in Walter Dyett's renowned music program at DuSable High School. Inspired by the playing of Earl Hines, Cole began his performing career in the mid 1930s while he was still a teenager, and adopted the name "Nat Cole". His older brother, Eddie Coles, a bassist, soon joined Nat's band and they first recorded in 1936 under Eddie's name. They were also regular performers at clubs. In fact, Nat got his nickname "King" performing at one jazz club, a nickname presumably reinforced by the otherwise-unrelated nursery rhyme about Old King Cole. He was also a pianist in a national touring revival of ragtime and Broadway theatre legend, Eubie Blake's revue, "Shuffle Along". When it suddenly failed in Long Beach, California, Cole decided to remain there...... Cole's first mainstream vocal hit was his 1943 recording of one of his compositions, "Straighten Up and Fly Right", based on a black folk tale that his father had used as a theme for a sermon. Johnny Mercer invited him to record it for the fledgling Capitol Records label. It sold over 500,000 copies, and proved that folk-based material could appeal to a wide audience. Although Nat would never be considered a rocker, the song can be seen as anticipating the first rock and roll records. Indeed, Bo Diddley, who performed similar transformations of folk material, counted Cole as an influence.... Cole, a smoker who would smoke as much as three packets of cigarettes a day, died of lung cancer on February 15, 1965. The day before he died, he did a radio interview, stating: "I am feeling better than ever. I think I've finally got this cancer licked". A 1997 edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul published a story stating that Cole's wife, Maria, nearly missed his death due to car trouble, but this is an urban legend. His last album, L-O-V-E, was recorded in early December 1964 — just a few days before entering the hospital for lung cancer treatment — and released just prior to his death; it peaked at #4 on the Billboard Albums chart in the spring of 1965. A Best Of album went gold in 1968. His 1957 recording of "When I Fall In Love" reached #4 in the UK charts in 1987..... [Wikipedia]