Jazz Articles about Cecil Hill

About Cecil Hill

Album Review

Cecil Hill’s name is new to me, but if one is measured by the company he keeps, Mr. Hill must rate high in anyone’s book. While the music he “swings” is unequivocal Swing Era fare (and beyond) designed mainly for dancing, Hill has enlisted the services of such renowned players as (the late) trumpeter Conte Candoli, tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb and “vocalist” Med Flory (better known for his leading role in guiding the incomparable SuperSax) to lend their capable hands ...

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Cecil Hill: Swings His Thing

Read "Swings His Thing" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
December 13, 2002

Back in the heyday of the big band, critics, reviewers, jazz journalists, etc., spent a lot of time, mostly unnecessarily, categorizing most bands into two groups: smooth sounding aggregations, and the killer diller outfits who blew the roof off the house every time they took the floor. Of course, I'm talking about those bands (and this means most of them) which never quite made it to the to the level of Miller, Barnet, James, Ellington, Dorsey, Basie and those others ...