Ernest Hill (musician)

Ernest "Bass" Hill ( born March 14, 1900 in Pittsburgh, † September 16, 1964 in New York City ) was an American jazz bassist (double bass, tuba).

Life

Hill played in 1924 with Claude Hopkins, with whom he went in 1925 to tour Europe and Josephine Baker accompanied. In 1928 he was in the orchestra by Leroy Smith and Bill Brown and his Brownies and 1929 in Eugene Kennedy Orchestra. In the 1930s he played with Willie Bryant (1936 ), Benny Carter (1933 ), Bobby Martin's Cotton Club Serenaders, Chick Webb, Rex Stewart, and Hot Lips Page. In 1939 he was at the beginning of the Second World War in Europe and fled via Switzerland, where he played in the tenor saxophonist Marc Fougere makers in the United States. In the 1940s he played with Maurice Hubbard, Claude Hopkins, Zutty Singleton, Louis Armstrong (1943 ), Cliff Jackson, Herbie Cowens and Minto Kato. In 1949 he was back in Europe, where he played with Bill Coleman in Switzerland and Italy, and in Germany in 1952 with Big Boy Goudie. He then returned to New York where he played with Happy Caldwell, Henry Morrison and Wesley Fagan. From 1954 he worked for the local New York musicians' union.

He took along with others, Red Allen, Spike Hughes, Putney Dandridge, Benny Carter, Willie Bryant, Hot Lips Page, Eddie South and Sam Price.