Bill Hitz

Bill Hitz: This Swingin' Age

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
September 25, 2013

As readers know, I love obscure big band albums from the 1950s. For example, back in February 2012 I posted about Marion Evans' Ted McNabb & Co., a hard swinger with beautifully stitched arrangements from 1959. Today, I want to tell you about Bill Hitz's Music for This Swingin' Age, from 1956. Bill who? Hitz was a clarinetist and alto saxophonist who recorded with Gene Krupa in 1945, Herbie Fields in 1946, Sarah Vaughan in 1950 and Ralph Flanagan in ...
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