Dizzy Gillespie said: "Earl Hines changed the style of the piano. You can find the roots of Bud Powell, Herbie Hancock, all the guys who came after that." Erroll Garner said, "When you talk about greatness, you talk about Art Tatum and Earl Hines." Earl Hines changed the sound of jazz piano by thinking beyond the keyboard. His horn-like attack, broken octaves, and rhythmic independence moved the instrument out of stride’s left-hand patterns and into a more modern, elastic language. That approach

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