Millhill Big Band

Millhill Big Band: Everybody Dance!

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

Let us begin by acknowledging that what Finland’s Millhill Big Band does, it does exceedingly well. And what it does (for the most part) on Everybody Dance! is support vocalists Jay Day and Kari Fall (there are only two instrumental tracks, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” and “As Time Goes By”). Millhill is, purely and simply, a band for those who wish to choose a partner and glide around the floor, and there’s scarcely a nod toward Jazz ...