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Although he did not play the same instrument as Joe Smith and Gus Aiken, this musician credited those two men rather than his main early collaborator as the prime influences on his style. One of this musician's songs begins with the lyrics "It's gone and started rainin' / I'm as lonely as a man can be." Throughout World War II, singer Billy Eckstine performed with this musician, including recording his song "Stormy Monday Blues." This composer of "Blues in Thirds" replaced Louis Armstrong's wife Lil as the pianist for the 1928 iteration of Armstrong's (*) "Hot Five." This developer of a "trumpet-style" technique of fast octaves headlined at the Grand Terrace CafÃ© in Chicago, where his orchestra's theme tune was "Rosetta." Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker are said to have created bebop while in this man's band. For 10 points, name this pianist nicknamed the "fatha" of modern jazz piano.
Although he did not play the same instrument as Joe Smith and Gus Aiken, this musician credited those two men rather than his main early collaborator as the prime influences on his style.
Earl (Kenneth) "Fatha" Hines