EARL HINES (ca. 1940) Portrait

New York: Consolidated Radio Artists, [ca. 1940]. Vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white print still photo, a couple of marginal spots, near fine.

Earl “Fatha” Hines (1903-1983) was an American jazz pianist and bandleader. He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one source, “one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz”. (Wikipedia)

Portrait of a young Hines. “Along with [Art] Tatum, the greatest piano innovator and stylist of the pre-bop era, who outlived most of his contemporaries.” (Cook and Morton, p. 720)