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Collection Title: Earl "Fatha" Hines collection
Date (inclusive): 1903-1983,
Date (bulk): bulk 1903-1983
Collection Number: ARCHIVES HINES 1
Creators :
Hines, Earl "Fatha"
Extent:
Number of containers: 27
Linear feet: 32.1
Repository: University of California, Berkeley. Music Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-2623
Email: music_reference@berkeley.edu
URL: https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/music_library_archives
Abstract:
Collection of items relating to the personal and musical life of Earl "Fatha" Hines, jazz pianist and bandleader.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Music Library.
[Identification of item], Earl "Fatha" Hines Collection, ARCHIVES HINES 1, Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Two containers of material which have not been inventoried are part of this collection : one steamer trunk containing Hines
stage clothing, and one box of 16mm motion picture reels (assumed to contain footage of Hines performances). These containers
reside in the Music Librarys vault.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hines, Earl, 1903-1983
Big band music
Jazz
Jazz--1931-1940
Jazz vocals
Piano music (Jazz)
No additions are expected.
Arranged to the container level.
(b Duquesne, PA, 28 Dec 1903; d Oakland, CA, 22 April 1983). American jazz pianist and bandleader. He studied the trumpet
briefly with his father, took his first piano lessons with his mother, and later studied with other teachers in Pittsburgh.
He first played professionally in 1918, accompanying the singer Lois Deppe, with whom he later made his first recordings;
his earnings allowed him to study with two local pianists.
Hines moved to Chicago in 1923. He played with Carroll Dickerson's orchestra at the Entertainers Club (c1925), on a 42-week
tour to the West Coast and Canada (1925-6) and back in Chicago at the Sunset Club. During this last engagement Hines and his
fellow sideman Louis Armstrong doubled as members of Erskine Tate's Vendome Theater Orchestra. In 1927 Hines became director
of Dickerson's group under Armstrong's nominal leadership and at the end of the year he joined Jimmie Noone's band at the
Apex Club. In 1928 Hines recorded several titles with Noone, including Apex Blues (1928, Voc.), and made a series of influential
recordings with Armstrong, among them the highly original trumpet and piano duet Weather Bird (1928, OK); he also recorded
a group of solos for QRS.
On his 25th birthday Hines inaugurated his own band at the Grand Terrace in Chicago, where he played for ten years; the band
became known through nationwide tours and, from 1934, radio broadcasts. Until 1947 he continued to lead big bands, featuring
such important figures as Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and many others. From 1948 to 1951
Hines played with Armstrong's All Stars and afterwards worked with small groups led by himself and others, attracting critical
notice in the mid-1960s for his solo, trio and quartet playing. He led his own small band into the 1980s, and continued to
perform regularly in the USA and abroad until the weekend before his death.
[From The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains papers, correspondence, compositions, and realia of and pertaining to Earl Hines. In addition to
material of biographical interest, the collection also includes many charts (i.e., arrangements) used by his various performing
ensembles.