In a 1975 film, pianist Earl Hines said,

** Earl Hines, American jazz pianist ( d. 1983 )

Competition was also intensifying, as African-American and white swing bands began to receive popular attention, including those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Carter, Earl Hines, Chick Webb, and Count Basie.

The more notable artists include Sonny Stitt, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Claude Bolling, Oscar Peterson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Dick Hyman, Joe Pass, Milt Jackson, Earl Hines, André Previn, World Saxophone Quartet, Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, Kenny Burrell, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Martial Solal, Clark Terry and Randy Weston.

Since its adoption by Earl Hines in 1928, the celesta has been used occasionally by jazz pianists as an alternative instrument.

Earl " Fatha " Hines became the star of Chicago with his Grand Terrace Cafe band and began to broadcast live from The Grand Terrace nightly coast-to-coast across America.

By this time the big band was such a dominant force in jazz that the older generation found they either had to adapt to it or simply retire — with no market for small-group recordings ( made worse by a depression-era industry reluctant to take risks ), some musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines fronted their own bands, while others, like Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver, lapsed into obscurity.

During World War II Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine led bands whose soloists figured as the early performers of Bebop.

Adding to their play book, Basie received arrangements from Jimmy Mundy ( who had also worked with Benny Goodman and Earl Hines ), particularly for " Cherokee ", " Easy Does It ", and " Super Chief ".

Bebop saxophone and flute player, Recorded with Carlos Santana, Joe Henderson, Earl Hines, Freddie Hubbard and several other jazz notables.

* Earl Hines, jazz pianist

Artists signed to American Decca in the 1930s and 1940s included Louis Armstrong, Charlie Kunz, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Jane Froman, The Boswell Sisters, Billie Holiday, The Andrews Sisters, Ted Lewis, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Billy Cotton, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Louis Jordan ( the No. 1 R & B artist of the 1940s ), Bob Crosby, Bill Kenny & The Ink Spots, Dorsey Brothers ( and subsequently Jimmy Dorsey after the brothers split ), Connee Boswell and Jack Hylton, Victor Young, Earl Hines, Claude Hopkins, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the original ' soul sister ' of recorded music.

* Stephane Grappelli and Earl Hines: Stephane Grappelli meets Earl Hines

Tatum drew inspiration from the pianists James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, who exemplified the stride piano style, and from the more " modern " Earl Hines, six years Tatum's senior.

Tatum identified Waller as his main influence, but according to pianist Teddy Wilson and saxophonist Eddie Barefield, " Art Tatum's favorite jazz piano player was Earl Hines.

The influential Pittsburgh-born pianist Earl Hines was also in the band for a time.

His playing of melodic lines owed most to Billy Kyle, and his accompaniments to horn solos owed most to the style of Earl Hines.

Before Powell, Art Tatum and Earl Hines had also somewhat explored independent homophony closely resembling later piano playing.

Evans used to listen to Earl Hines, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, George Shearing, Stan Getz, Miles Davis, and Nat Cole among others.

* Band leaders: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Count Basie, Charlie Barnet, Les Brown, Cab Calloway, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Gordon Goodwin, Glen Gray, Erskine Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, Woody Herman, Tiny Hill, Earl Hines, Harry James, Louis Jordan, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Kay Kyser, Jimmie Lunceford, Glenn Miller, Red Norvo, Gloria Parker, Louis Prima, Buddy Rich, Fred Rich, Artie Shaw, Charlie Spivak, Chick Webb

* Piano: Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Nat Jaffe, Jelly Roll Morton, Jess Stacy, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller

Sometime during her week of performances at the Apollo, Vaughan was introduced to bandleader and pianist Earl Hines, although the exact details of that introduction are disputed.

At the behest of Charles and Buckingham, James assented to the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer, Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, by the House of Commons, who quickly fell in much the same manner as Bacon had.

At the age of 13, jazz guitarist Earl Klugh was captivated watching Atkins's guitar playing on The Perry Como Show.

At age 17, Booth made his stage debut on August 14, 1855, in the supporting role of the Earl of Richmond in Richard III at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.

At Vicksburg, the failure to coordinate multiple forces on both sides of the Mississippi River rested primarily on the his inability to create a harmonious departmental arrangement or to force such commanders as generals Edmund Kirby Smith, Earl Van Dorn, and Theophilus H. Holmes to work together.

At the Maryland Institute he led a group of painters who came to be known as the Baltimore Realists, including the outstanding painters Earl Hofmann, Thomas Rowe, Joseph Sheppard, Ann Didusch Schuler, Frank Redelius, John Bannon, Evan Keehn, and Melvin Miller.

At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.

At this point, both Harold's remaining brothers in England were earls in their own right, Harold was himself king and in control of Wessex, and he had married the sister of Earl Edwin of Mercia and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria ( who had succeeded his brother Tostig ).

At the Salisbury parliament of February 1297, Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, in his capacity as Marshal of England, objected to a royal summons of military service.

At the First Battle of St Albans, many of York's and Salisbury's rivals and enemies were killed, including Somerset, the Earl of Northumberland ( whose family had been involved in a long-running feud with the Nevilles ) and Lord Clifford.

At first, Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, was set to fill the power vacuum and enforce royal authority, but he met with limited success in a struggle with his brother-in-law, Torquil MacLeod of Lewis.

At least two fencing treatises are dedicated to Robert, Earl of Essex.

At the end of December 1585 Leicester was received in the Netherlands, according to one correspondent, in the manner of a second Charles V ; a Dutch town official already noted in his minute-book that the Earl was going to have " absolute power and authority ".

At this point he was almost immediately taken into the service of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

At this stage, it is probable that the king felt unable to move against the rest of the Albany Stewarts while Murdoch's brother, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan and the Earl of Douglas were fighting the English on the Dauphinist cause in France.

At an 80th birthday party for Scruggs in 2004, country singer Porter Wagoner said, “ Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball .” “ He is the best there ever was ”, Wagoner said, “ and the best there ever will be .”

At that time, her father was then created Earl of Salisbury and of Warwick ; he was already Duke of Clarence.

At Almansa, the Franco – Spanish army under Berwick soundly defeated the allied forces of Portugal, England, and the United Provinces led by the Earl of Galway, reclaiming most of eastern Spain for the Bourbons.

At this time, it is thought Shakespeare may already have been writing for Lord Strange's Men, the company of Ferdinando Stanley, Lord Strange later 5th Earl of the Derby.

At the heart of the town stands St. Magnus Cathedral, which was founded in memory of Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney 1108-1117 by Earl ( later Saint ) Rögnvald Kali.

At the funeral of the Queen Anne, the Earl was beaten for arriving late and asking to leave early.

At the same time, the barons ' extralegal action had alienated many of their former associates ; the Earl of Pembroke in particular became strongly tied to the king's cause after the affront to his honour.

At the accession of George I, he was made Viscount Sunbury and Earl of Halifax, with remainder to heirs male, a Knight of the Garter, and First Lord of the Treasury, with a grant to his nephew of the reversion of the Auditorship of the Exchequer.