Quadromania

Artist: Earl "Fatha" Hines
Label: Membran/Quadromania Jazz
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4
EAN: 4011222224422
ASIN: B0007UAQXO

Release Date: 2006-05-04

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Tracks:

Chicago High Life
Stowaway
Panther Rag
Just Too Soon
Caution Blues
A Monday Date
I Ain't Got Nobody
Fifty-Seven Varieties
Glad Rag Doll
Love Me Tonight
Down Amond The Sheltering Palms
That's A Plenty
Fat Babes
Maple Leaf Rag
Sweet Georgia Brown
Rosetta
Copenhagen
Angry
Wolverine Blues
Rock And Rye
Cavernism
Dissapointed In Love
Rhythm Lullaby
Japanese Sandman
Bubbling Over
Blue
Julia
Flany Doodle Swing
Inspiration
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
Honeysuckle Rose
Blue Skies
Hines Rhythm
Rhythm Rhapsody
Piano Man
Tantalizing A Cuban
Father Steps In
Rosetta
Body And Soul
Child Of A Disordered Brain
Deep Forest
Number 19
Blues In Thirds
Up Jumped The Devil
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
My Melancholy Baby
Windy City Jive
Earl
Second Balcony Jump
Straight Life
At The El Grotto
Rosetta
Now That You're Mine
Spooks Ball
Margie
Let's Get Started
Ain't Gonna Give None Of This Jelly Roll
Oh My Archin' Back
Throwing The Switch
Midnight In New Orleans
Sweet Honey Babe
When I Dream Of You
Trickatrack
Ain't Misbehavin'
Bamby
I Need A Shoulder To Cry On
Black And Blue
Louise

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Customer Reviews:

Lacks Fire.......2006-12-04

Content: 3 stars
Audio Quality: 2 stars
Packaging: 2 stars
Bang for the Buck: 3 stars

This is the most disappointing of the several Quadromania sets I've purchased so far. Recorded between 1928 and 1947, the tracks divide about evenly between ragtimey solo piano and more pop oriented Earl Hines Orchestra numbers. The solo pieces, while displaying a lot of technical skill and drive, don't really seem to catch fire. Maybe I don't "get it". Maybe I've been listening to too much Fats Waller. The big band numbers, typically begun with a hot solo statement from the piano before the full orchestra steps in, also seem bland. Gets up good speed on the runway, but never seems to really take to the air. Pleasant enough, but unsatisfying. They seem like an effort to appeal more to a popular music audience than a jazz one. Maybe I've been listening to too much Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson. One clue that Membran might have limited Hines material sources: unlike other Quadromania disks, these 4 are well under an hour each. The Laserlight "Earl Hines - Solo Piano" seems to show off his piano skills far better.

While we don't expect hifi sound from this era, the sound quality is well below the other sets I've bought in this series. The piano pieces almost sound like you're listening from another room. The big band pieces are sonic mush; you scarcely distinguish the instruments other than the piano. While noise has been aggressively removed, dynamic range is poor and instruments occassionally "break up". Almost like listening from another dimension.

The CD case, while well designed, fails because the little teeth that should hold the CDs in place frequently (a)don't & (b)break. This causes CDs to get loose during travel or while trying to remove another CD in the box. Liner notes give titles, dates, and personnel for each track, but no biographical or other information.

This is almost plenty enough........2006-06-22

I recently discovered these Quadromania sets from Membran. They are simply treasures if you want a one-stop, broad retrospective of major jazz figures. In this case, Earl "Fatha" Hines is the treasure. This four-disc retrospective covers Hines' career from the early solo recordings from 1928 through the 30's; through the Chicago days with his Grand Terrace orchestra (the Midwest's answer to Ellington and the Eastern establishment); and up into the bands of the `40s. Hines said that he couldn't afford to hire stars--he had to make them--and the personnel of these GT bands show that Hines' band did, indeed, create stars. Interspersed with these splendid and exciting (and sadly neglected) big-band recordings are marvelous solo recordings---1940's "Rosetta" (compare the band version on disc 1), "Body and Soul", and "Child of a Disordered Mind." and 1941's "On the Sunny Side of the Street," and "My Melancholy Baby." As a bonus, there are some good vocal tracks, including Billie Eckstine, Dolores Parker, and Johnny Hartman. The set does not go beyond 1947. Nor does it include any of Armstrong-Hines masterpieces form the Hot Five and Hot Seven era or specimens from the Armstrong All Stars band of the late 40's. You will need to go elsewhere for the late show: Hines' career from the `60s until his death in 1983 was simply astounding. He never stopped playing, growing, improvising. Nevertheless this collection is a valuable retrospective and a fine starting place for a serious exploration. Despite the deification of Tatum and the elevation and apotheosis of Ellington, jazz piano may well start with Hines. The King, the Duke and Monk did hear the Fatha, too.

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