{"id":5807,"date":"2014-06-15T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T00:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=5807"},"modified":"2014-06-15T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T00:26:48","slug":"happy-fathahs-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2014\/06\/happy-fathahs-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fathah&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;vLml6tMUDQ6cPV6BDhrL6tIAyJWCuRr6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>One of Earl \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fatha\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest admirers, fellow pianist Dick Wellstood, wrote in the liner notes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Quintessential-Continued-Earl-Hines\/dp\/B00411WL92\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">Earl Hines: Quintessential Continued<\/a>, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Behold Earl Hines, spinner of yarns, big handed virtuoso of the black dance, con man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Earl-Hines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Earl-Hines.jpg\" alt=\"Earl Hines\" width=\"194\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5808\" \/><\/a>extraordinaire, purveyor of hot sauce.<br \/>\nBehold Earl Hines, Jive King, boss of the sloppy run, the dragged thumb, the uneven tremolo, Minstral of the Unworthy Emotion, King of Freedom.<br \/>\nDemocratic Transcendent, his twitchy, spitting style uses every cheesy trick in the piano-bar catalog to create moving cathedrals, masterpieces of change, great trains of tension and relaxation, multi-dimensional solos that often seem to be about themselves or other solos&#151;&#8217;See, here I might have played some boogie-woogie, or put this accent here, or put this accent there, or this run here, that chord there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6or maybe a little stride for you beautiful people in the audience\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Earl Hines, Your Musical Host, serving up the hot sauce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His is Freedom in Discipline, infinite choice in a limited sphere, the tension of Will vs. Material&#151;his is human creativity. Behold Earl Hines, King of Beasts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the King of Beasts at the piano workshop of the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1965. He plays Eubie Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Memories of You\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with bassist Niels-Henning \u00c3\u02dcrsted Pedersen and drummer Alan Dawson. This was during the early stages of what was widely described as Hines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comeback or rediscovery, and he was feeling his oats. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CcHz_cjeqRU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for all of you fathas out there.  And you muthas, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;vLml6tMUDQ6cPV6BDhrL6tIAyJWCuRr6&#8243;] One of Earl \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fatha\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hines\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greatest admirers, fellow pianist Dick Wellstood, wrote in the liner notes for Earl Hines: Quintessential Continued, Behold Earl Hines, spinner of yarns, big handed virtuoso of the black dance, con man extraordinaire, purveyor of hot sauce. Behold Earl Hines, Jive King, boss of the sloppy run, the dragged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}