Earl Hines - Paris Session

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 37:56

Size: 86.9 MB

Styles: Piano jazz

Year: 2010

Art: Front

[4:18] 1. I Surrender Dear

[5:09] 2. I Cover The Waterfront

[2:18] 3. Second Balcony Jump

[4:21] 4. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody

[2:40] 5. Tourisme

[5:25] 6. Blue Because Of You

[2:18] 7. Somebody Loves Me

[2:51] 8. Sixty-Five Faubourg

[5:26] 9. On The Sunny Side Of The Street

[3:04] 10. Sweet Sue

Earl Hines, a mainstay of 20th century jazz piano, is here presented in a rare solo recording from 1965, sounding not at all dated nearly half a century later. This session gathers seven evergreens together plus three Hines originals, including his by-now-standard "Second Balcony Jump."

"I don't think I think when I play," Hines says, "I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them... I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I sometimes get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory... If I'm working a pretty melody, I'll just slip in to a waltz time or cut the tempo in half. My mind is going a mile a minute, and it goes even better when I have a good piano and the audience doesn't distract me. I'm like a race horse."

Paris Session

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