Swing's Our Thing
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{{Infobox album
| name = Swing's Our Thing
| type = Album
| artist = Johnny Hodges and Earl "Fatha" Hines
| cover = Swing's Our Thing.jpg
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| released = 1968
| recorded = November 14 & 15, 1967
| studio = Coast Recorders Inc., San Francisco, CA
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| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Verve V/V6 8732
| producer = Esmond Edwards
| chronology = Johnny Hodges
| prev_title = Don't Sleep in the Subway
| prev_year = 1967
| next_title = Rippin' & Runnin'
| next_year = 1968
}}
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.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records/catalog-8700-series/#v-v6-8732 Verve Records Catalog: 8700 series] accessed February 19, 2016[http://www.bsnpubs.com/new/verve.pdf Discography of the Verve, Clef and Norgran labels] accessed February 19, 2016
Reception
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| rev1 = AllMusic
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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".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000867663 |title=Swing's Our Thing – Review |accessdate=February 19, 2016}}
Track listing
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
- 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
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