HILL, THEODORE (TEDDY
). Jazz saxophonist ( in Birmingham, Alabama; in Cleveland, Ohio). He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Birmingham, Alabama, where he played drums first in school bands, then changed to trumpet. In high school he came under the tutelage of John (Fess
) Whatley and studied clarinet and saxophone. After graduation from high school, he toured with the
Whitman Sisters
(1926-27), then settled in New York, where he played with...