Sunset Cafe
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The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe or simply Grand Terrace, was a jazz club in Chicago, Illinois operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz c
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The Ace Hardware store now occupying the building that used to house the Sunset café
Earl Hines
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Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, 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 sou
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…Washington, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Dodds, Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa and Earl "Fatha" Hines and his orchestra's members: Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Sarah Vaughan. On September 23, 1939, Ella Fitzgerald made her Chicago…
Hines in 1936
Hines with Pvt. Charles Carpenter, former manager of the Hines orchestra
Hines in 1947 (photograph by William P. Gottlieb)
From left: Jack Teagarden, Sandy DeSantis, Velma Middleton, Fraser MacPherson, Cozy Cole, Arvell Shaw, Earl Hines, Barney Bigard at the Palomar Supper Club, Vancouver, B.C., March 17, 1951