Word: fatha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canceled Hines's scheduled appearances in Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata, rerouting him to the industrial city of Krasnodar (pop. 312,000) and the Black Sea resorts of Batumi (82,000) and Sukhumi (70,000). The State Department protested the "arbitrary changes," but the Soviets, obviously afraid that Fatha would have too big an impact in the great cities, were adamant. They may have outsmarted themselves, because Batumi and Sukhumi at this time of year are often jumping-like the east coast of Florida in January...
Stealing from Satchmo. For Hines, the acclaim abroad is the echo of a grander triumph back home. Now 60, he is the founding fatha of modern jazz piano. Yet for the better part of the past 15 years, he foundered as a forgotten jazz immortal swept aside by capricious tastes. Two years ago, his name was nowhere on the jazz popularity polls. Many fans thought that he had passed on to that big jam session in the sky. In this year's Down Beat International Jazz Critics Poll, however, he was voted the world's No. 1 jazz...
Obviously Fatha knows best, for through all his ups and downs, he has never tried to alter his style to serve fashion. Hines's playing today, save for a heightened sense of surprise, is practically the same as it was when he came out of Pittsburgh as the most original jazz pianist around. His own father had played the cornet, and Earl adapted its lusty, brassy quality to the keyboard, learned to chop out big, gaudy chords in order to be heard through a blaring orchestra. The technique was further refined when he teamed with Louis Armstrong...
...diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines hit the road-just in time to witness the demise of the big-band era. The years thereafter were largely one continuous round of playing with various combos. He dyed his greying temples 'black, staged lavish press parties to promote the "New Fatha Hines." Nothing worked, and eventually he resorted to playing Dixieland in San Francisco clubs-endlessly searching for "something that people wanted to hear...
They began to listen again in 1964, when he returned to Manhattan to perform three solo concerts. The critics were ecstatic. What followed was 14 new albums, several sizzling performances on the jazz-festival circuit, and two extended tours of Europe, where Fatha is one of the most popular of all popular musicians. Viewing himself as an "evangelizing musician," Hines says: "People have been walking by me for a long time. Now it's my turn to reach the young people and teach them the old ways, the right ways, the good-time ways...