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Cecil Hill

Swings His Thing

By Cecil Hill

Label: Marhill
Released: 2003
Track listing: Serenade in Blue; One O

Cecil Hill: Swings His Thing

by Jack Bowers
April 2, 2003

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, ...

Swings His Thing

By Cecil Hill

Label: Marhill
Released: 2002
Track listing: Serenade in Blue; One O'Clock Jump; Town Without Pity; Two of a Kind; Sabor a Mi; Flat Foot Floogie; When You Wish upon a Star; Blue Monday; Since I Fell for You; Night Train; Little Egypt; So Rare

Cecil Hill: Swings His Thing

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 ...