Uploaded by binturong4 on Jul 11, 2009
1920's
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I simply love the quirky originality and the seemingly endless invention of Hines. Great piano playing by any standards.
3 weeks ago 4
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@KawhackitaRag .. how do you figure?
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@KawhackitaRag .. how doyou figure?
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@Julian9ehp the first pic is from a Buster Keaton movie, I believe. binturong4 can correct me, I'm not sure.
I love this performance. You can hear how he starts with a quote from the introduction of Zez Confrey's famous piano solo "Greenwich Witch", which was fairly well-known in the 1920s. However, what comes later has little to do with this.
This is a very beautiful and truly jazzy reading of this tune. I like the wide-open swing here. Jimmy Blythe and Alex Hill are in evidence.
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Some of these pictures look like stills from a silent movie, and some look like candids.
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sweet!!
2 years ago 3
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This has to be one of the most eccentric, far-out, and yet compelely logical jazz piano solos recorded up till this time (1932, I think?). The part from halfway to 3/4 of the way through gets pretty wild. The bass is genius... it almost sounds like Hines has an extra hand or two. I literally have no idea where he learned to play like this, it is so unorthodox.
However, some of the ping-pong bass patterns and angular rhythms betray the clear influences of Arthur Schutt and Irving Brodsky.
KawhackitaRag 1 year ago 39
@KawhackitaRag The Penguin Jazz Encyclopedia says:
... [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.[33]
multifacetsflux 1 year ago 12