Earl Hines - Once Upon a Time ( 1966)

Artist: Earl Hines
Title Of Album: Once Upon a Time
Year Of Release: 1966
Label: Impulse!
Genre: Jazz, Early Jazz
Format: FLAC (Tracks)+CUE, LOG
Quality: Lossless
Total Time: 00:37:12
Total Size: 221 mb


Review by Scott Yanow

For reasons that are unclear, this LP reissue of an Impulse set drops one of the seven songs ("Black and Tan Fantasy") from the program, reducing the playing time down to a mere 29 minutes. But if one finds this LP at a budget price, it is worth picking up, for the great pianist Earl Hines is featured on three selections with many of the members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra (including on the exciting "Once Upon a Time" and "Cotton Tail"), in a quartet featuring Jimmy Hamilton and with a nonet that also includes clarinetist Pee Wee Russell along with some Ellingtonians. Great music, lousy packaging.

Tracks:

1. Once Upon A Time
2. Black And Tan Fantasy
3. Fantastic, That's You
4. Cotton Tail
5. Blues In My Flat, The
6. You Can Depend On Me
7. Hash Brown

Personnel:

Earl Hines - Piano
Harold Ashby,Paul Gonsalves -Sax (Tenor)
Aaron Bell,Richard Davis - Bass
Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper - Trombone
Sonny Greer, Elvin Jones - Drums
Jimmy Hamilton - Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope - Sax (Alto)
Clark Terry ,Ray Nance - Trumpet , Vocal
Pee Wee Russell - Clarinet

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