Earl Hines And His Orchestra has been played on NTS in shows including Prosumer, featured first on 21 April 2015. Songs played include He Does It Better and He Does It Better.

Earl Hines (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.

On December 28, 1928 (his 25th birthday and six weeks before the Saint Valentine's Day massacre), the always-immaculate Hines opened at Chicago's Grand Terrace Cafe leading his own big band, the pinnacle of jazz ambition at the time. "All America was dancing", Hines said, and for the next 12 years and through the worst of the Great…