Step up and take a look at the U.S.’s latest secret weapon. A hot missile? No, a cool cat—Earl (“Fatha”) Hines, jazz pianist nonpareil. Fatha and his sextet were midway through a six-week cultural ...

“He would say, ‘Fatha, Fatha … serving my children – with the music,’ and that’s what he did,” Denise Thimes said. “There was a time when we couldn’t get the information unless it was through black ...