| Swing's Our Thing | ||||
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| Released | 1968 | |||
| Recorded | November 14 & 15, 1967 | |||
| Studio | Coast Recorders Inc., San Francisco, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Verve V/V6 8732 | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
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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]
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| 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]
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