Previously unreleased recordings.Superb quality stereo radio broadcasts 'live' from San Francisco's Black Sheep Club

Earl Hines was one of the great jazz pianists, and was often dubbed the first modern jazz piano player. However, he enjoyed substantial success and popularity during the New Orleans revival of the '50s, playing with a variety of line-ups. Especially in San Francisco, which was a hotbed of the heightened interest in traditional jazz.
This collection comprises six previously unreleased radio broadcasts recorded 'live' at the Black Sheep Club in San Francisco in 1961, which are part of the archive of largely unreleased material known as the Ackerman Collection, from which we have released several interesting sets, including the Jazz At The Philharmonic Seattle 1956 concerts.
There are five 25-minute programmes, featured unedited in their entirety, which went out weekly on KCBS Radio, and they capture the spirit and flavour of the era in stereo recordings of immaculate technical quality, which have required very little cleaning .
As ever, Hines assembled a band consisting of top class musicians, with several different trumpeters used in the various shows, and the band swings and grooves through rip-roaring ensemble improvisation and solos in relaxed and uninhibited style, and it makes for highly entertaining and evocative listening.
Featured musicians: Earl Hines (p), Eddie Smith, Byron Berry, Ernie Figueroa (tpt), Jimmy Archey (trombone), Darnell Howard (cl), Pops Foster (b), Earl Watkins (dr)

Track Listing

• Deep Forest (theme) and spoken intro by Earl Fatha Hines
• Beale Street Blues
• Riverboat Shuffle
• Lonesome Road
• Darktown Strutters Ball
• Deep Forest (theme) and spoken intro by Earl Fatha Hines
• Fidgety Feet
• I Love You Because I Love You
• Mahogany Hall Stomp
• Stardust
• The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
• Lady Be Good
• Deep Forest (theme) and spoken intro by Earl Fatha Hines
• I Wish I could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
• Panama Rag
• St. James Infirmary
• Limehouse Blues
• Lady Be Good

• Deep Forest (theme) and spoken intro by Earl Fatha Hines
• South Rampart Street Parade
• Yes Sir That's My Baby
• Clarinet Marmalade
• The Memphis Blues
• Deep Forest (theme) and spoken intro by Earl Fatha Hines
• Jazz Me Blues
• Lonesome Road
• Dippermouth Blues
• Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
• The Bucket's Got A Hole In It
• Deep Forest (theme) and spoken intro by Earl Fatha Hines
• Dallas Blues
• Manhattan
• West End Blues
• Wolverine Blues
• Please Play For Me The Sweet Melody Doodle-Ee-Doo

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 148:00 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 09/11/12

UPC: 824046307523