EARL HINES 78 RMP JAZZ TEST PRESSING EXTREMLEY RARE
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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A VINTAGE RECORDING EARL HINES AND HIS ORCHESTRA TEST PRESSING OF "GOOD LITTLE BAD LITTLE YOU" 78rmp 10" RECORD. THIS RECORD IS IN EXCELLENT PLUS CONDITION AND WOULD BE A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION. I WILL SHIP INTERNATIONALLY BUT POSTAGE WOULD VARY ON LOCATION. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL ME. THANKS FOR LOOKING AND GOOD LUCK!!!
Early life
Earl Hines was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania 12 miles out from the Pittsburgh city centre. His father played cornet and was leader of Pittsburgh's Eureka Brass Band, his stepmother a church organist. Hines intended to follow his father on cornet but "blowing" hurt him behind the ears - while the piano didn't. The young Hines took classical piano lessons - at eleven he was playing organ in his local Baptist church - but he also had a "good ear and a good memory" for popular tunes and could re-play songs and numbers he heard in theaters and park 'concerts': "I'd be playing songs from these shows months before the song copies came out. That astonished a lot of people and they'd ask where I heard these numbers and I'd tell them at the theatre where my parents had taken me." Later Hines was to say that he was playing piano around Pittsburgh "before the word 'jazz' was even invented".
Early career
At the age of 17, and with his father's approval, Hines moved away from home to take a job playing with Lois Deppe & his 'Symphonian Serenaders in the "Liederhaus", a Pittsburgh nightclub. He got 2 meals a day and $15 a week. Deppe was a well-known baritone who sang both classical and popular numbers. Deppe used the young Hines as his accompanist for both and took Hines on his concert-trips to New York. Hines' first recordings were accompanying Deppe — four sides recorded with Gennett Records in 1923, shortly after recording was invented. Only two of these were issued, and only one, a Hines composition, "Congaine", "a keen snappy foxtrot", featured any solo work by Hines. Hines entered the studio again with Deppe a month later to record spirituals and popular songs.
In 1925, after much debate, Hines moved to Chicago, Illinois, then the world's "jazz" capital, home (at the time) to Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. He started in The Elite no 2 Club but soon joined Carroll Dickerson's band with whom he also toured on the Pantages Theatre Circuit to Los Angeles and back.
Then, in the poolroom at Chicago's Musicians' Union on State & 39th, Earl Hines met Louis Armstrong. Hines was 21, Armstrong 24. They played together at the Union piano.[Armstrong was astounded by Hines's avant-garde "trumpet-style" piano-playing, often using dazzlingly fast octaves so that on none-too-perfect upright pianos (and with no amplification) "they could hear me out front" - as indeed they could.
... [Hines'] most dramatic departure from what other pianists were then playing was his approach to the underlying pulse: he would charge against the metre of the piece being played, accent off-beats, introduce sudden stops and brief silences. In other hands this might sound clumsy or all over the place but Hines could keep his bearings with uncanny resilience.
WOW!! FANTASTIC RECORD FROM THE 1920's !!
VERY RARE!! TEST PRESSING VICTOR FEB. 14, 1929 (# V-38043-B BVE-48885-3)
NO RESERVE SO THE HIGH BIDDER WILL GET IT !!!
I HAVE OTHER TEST PRESSINGS ON AUCTION AND WILL COMBINE TO SAVE A GREAT AMOUNT OF MONEY ON SHIPPING !!!
PLEASE CLICK ON "VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS" TO SEE THEM ALL
THIS RECORD COMES FROM A RETIRED RADIO ENGINEER'S PRIVATE COLLECTION FROM MANY MANY YEARS AGO!!!
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