This CD features Earl Hines & His Esquire All Stars in a series of radio broadcasts from the Club Hangover in San Francisco in the early weeks of 1954, although the great jazz is burdened somewhat with the ever present announcer to introduce each tune and a piano of often questionable tuning. The pianist is in top form as a soloist in spite of being handicapped with an inferior instrument. Although Hines was playing a lot of Dixieland material during this period of his career.