Once Upon a Time (Earl Hines album)

1966 studio album by Earl Hines

Once Upon a Time

Studio album by

Earl Hines

Released| 1966
Recorded| January 10–11, 1966
Genre| Jazz
Length| 37:24
Label| Impulse!
A-9108
Producer| Bob Thiele
Earl Hines chronology
| Blues So Low
(1966)  | Once Upon a Time
(1966)  | Spontaneous Explorations
(1966)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [2]

Once Upon a Time is a studio album by American jazz pianist Earl Hines, recorded over January 10–11, 1966 and released on Impulse! later that year. Hines is accompanied by members of the Duke Ellington orchestra.[1]

## Track listing

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Side 1No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Once upon a Time"| Johnny Hodges| 7:57
2.| "Black and Tan Fantasy"| Duke Ellington, James "Bubber" Miley| 5:13
3.| "Fantastic, That's You"| George Cates, Bob Thiele| 4:13
4.| "Cotton Tail"| Ellington| 3:16

Side 2No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "The Blues in My Flat"| Lionel Hampton| 8:02
2.| "You Can Depend on Me"| Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines| 5:01
3.| "Hash Brown"| Hodges| 3:42

## Personnel

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### Musicians

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* Earl Hines – piano
* Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone (tracks: A1, A3, A4)
* Pee Wee Russell – clarinet (tracks: A2, B1 to B3)
* Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope – alto saxophone (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B3)
* Harold Ashby (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B3), Paul Gonsalves (except "Fantastic, That's You") – tenor saxophone
* Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper (tracks: A2, B1 to B3) – trombone (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B3)
* Cat Anderson, Ray Nance (except B3) – trumpet (tracks: A1, A2, A4 to B3)
* Aaron Bell – bass (tracks: A2, A3, B1 to B3)
* Elvin Jones (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B2), Sonny Greer (tracks: A2, A4, B3) – drums

### Technical personnel

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* Bob Thiele – producer
* Bob Simpson – recording engineer
* Joe Lebow – design
* Charles Stewart – photography
* Stanley Dance – liner notes

## References

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1. ^ a b Earl Hines – Once Upon a Time: Review at AllMusic
2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 706\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Earl Hines

Studio albums|

* Once Upon a Time (1966)
* Stride Right (1966)
* Swing's Our Thing (1967)
* Duet! (1972)
* Earl Hines Plays Cole Porter (1974)
* West Side Story (1974)
* Hines '74
* The Dirty Old Men (1974)

Compilations|

* Earl Hines at Sundown (1974)
* Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington Volume Two (1997)

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* MusicBrainz release group

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