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.

Portrait of a young Earl “Fatha” 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)