Swing's Our Thing

Swing's Our Thing
Swing's Our Thing
Studio album by Johnny Hodges and Earl "Fatha" Hines
Released	1968
Recorded	November 14 & 15, 1967
Studio	Coast Recorders Inc., San Francisco, CA
Genre	Jazz
Label	Verve V/V6 8732
Producer	Esmond Edwards
Johnny Hodges chronology

Swing's Our Thing is an album by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges and pianist Earl Hines featuring performances recorded in 1967 and released on the Verve label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]

The AllMusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating, "The jumping tunes are given concise performances (six songs are under three minutes long and none are longer than 4:10), but the musicians take advantage of every second they have on this rather brief album. ...this is a notable obscurity from some of jazz's all-time greats".^[3]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Johnny Hodges, except as indicated.

"Open Ears" - 4:10
"Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) - 2:28
"Doll Valley" (Tom Whaley) - 4:08
"Can a Moose Crochet?" - 2:58
"One Night in Trinidad" (Earl Hines) - 2:48
"Night Train to Memphis" (Cat Anderson, Duke Ellington) - 3:40
"Bustin' with Buster" - 3:24
"Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 2:27
"Do It Yourself" (Anderson) - 2:15
"The Cannery Walk" (Hines) - 2:25

Personnel[edit]

Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
Earl "Fatha" Hines - piano
Cat Anderson - trumpet
Buster Cooper - trombone
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
Jeff Castleman - double bass
Sam Woodyard - drums

References[edit]

^ Verve Records Catalog: 8700 series accessed February 19, 2016
^ Discography of the Verve, Clef and Norgran labels accessed February 19, 2016
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. Swing's Our Thing – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 19, 2016.

[Verve_discography-1] Verve Records Catalog: 8700 series accessed February 19, 2016

[2] Discography of the Verve, Clef and Norgran labels accessed February 19, 2016

[AllMusic-3] Yanow, Scott. Swing's Our Thing – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 19, 2016.

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v t e Earl Hines
Studio albums	Once Upon a Time (1966) Stride Right (1966) Swing's Our Thing (1967) Duet! (1972) Earl Hines Plays Cole Porter (1974) West Side Story (1974) Hines '74 The Dirty Old Men (1974)
Compilations	Earl Hines at Sundown (1974) Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington Volume Two (1997)

v t e Johnny Hodges
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Castle Rock (1951–52) In a Tender Mood (1951–52) The Blues (1952–54) Used to Be Duke (1954) Creamy (1955) Duke's in Bed (1956) Ellingtonia '56 (1956) The Big Sound (1957) Blues A-Plenty (1958) Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin (1958) Not So Dukish (1958) Side by Side (and Duke Ellington, 1958–59) Back to Back (and Duke Ellington, 1959) Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (1959) Blue Hodge (1961) Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (1961) Blue Rabbit (and Wild Bill Davis, 1963–64) Sandy's Gone (1963) Mess of Blues (and Wild Bill Davis, 1963) Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (1964–65) Blue Pyramid (and Wild Bill Davis, 1965–66) Con-Soul & Sax (1965–66) Inspired Abandon (and Lawrence Brown, 1965) Joe's Blues (and Wild Bill Davis, 1965) Wings & Things (nd Wild Bill Davis, 1965) Blue Notes (1966) Stride Right (and Earl Hines, 1966) Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges in Atlantic City (1966) Don't Sleep in the Subway (1967) Swing's Our Thing (and Earl Hines, 1967) Triple Play (1967) Rippin' & Runnin' (1968) 3 Shades of Blue (1970)
With others	Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (and Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge, 1962) Joya Sherrill Sings Duke (Joya Sherrill, 1965) Cue for Saxophone (Billy Strayhorn, 1959) Taylor Made Jazz (Billy Taylor, 1959) Duke with a Difference (Clark Terry, 1957)
Duke Ellington discography