Two of pianist
Earl Hines's finest recordings sessions of the 1950s are included on this CD. One is a tribute to
Fats Waller on which
Hines (with guitarist
Eddie Duran, bassist
Dean Reilly and drummer
Earl Watkins) explores songs associated with
Waller. The other date is
Hines's only solo session of the decade and features him playing his own compositions (including "Everything Depends on You," "You Can Depend on Me," "Piano Man" and "My Monday Date") along with "Am I Too Late?" During the 1950s,
Hines was somewhat forgotten in jazz, reduced to playing Dixieland dates, so this two-fer is far superior to his other sessions prior to his "comeback" of 1964.