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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1909
- Active to
- 1978
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Teddy Hill (December 7, 1909 in Birmingham, Alabama – May 19, 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio) was a big band leader and the manager of Minton's Playhouse, a seminal jazz club in Harlem. He played a variety of instruments, including drums, clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophone. After moving to New York City, Hill had early gigs with the Whitman Sisters, George Howe and Luis Russell's orchestra in the 1920s, later forming his own band in 1934, which found steady work over the NBC radio network. <a href=
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Theodore
- Family name
- Hill
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Place of death
- Cleveland
- Child
- Melba Moore
- Occupation
- talent manager
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Image
- Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Teddy Hill, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 06201).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1909-12-07
- date of death
- 1978-05-19
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- Teddy Hill
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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