PIANO GENIUS AT WORK

This 7-CD plus one DVD box set features: solo sessions from Hines' early days in 1928 and up to 1974 in New York and Chicago; 1948 radio broadcasts from Blue Note in Chicago with Louis Armstrong and his All Stars; a series of 1954-1955 live recordings from the infamous Club Hangover in San Francisco; 1954 collaborations with the Muggsy Spanier All Stars; numerous 1959 recordings with the Earl Hines Quartet from London House in Chicago; and on the DVD, a 1970 take of Earl Hines solo on piano and vocal.