Johnny Hodges (1907-1970): Not So Dukish

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  • Label: FreshSound , 1952-58
  • Order number: 1237476
  • Release date: 3.3.2010
  1. 1 Blues a Plenty Start
  2. 2 Cool Your Motor Start
  3. 3 Gone with the Wind Start
  4. 4 Honey Hill Start
  5. 5 I Didn't Know About You Start
  6. 6 Satin Doll Start
  7. 7 Reelin' and Rockin' Start
  8. 8 Don't Take Your Love from Me Start
  9. 9 Saturday Afternoon Blues Start
  10. 10 Just a Memory Start
  11. 11 Let's Fall in Love Start
  12. 12 Big Shoe Start
  13. 13 Ruint Start
  14. 14 Bend One Start
  15. 15 You Need to Rock Start
  16. 16 M. H. R
  17. 17 Broadway Babe
  18. 18 Three and Six
  19. 19 Not so Dukish
  20. 20 Central Park Swing
  21. 21 Preacher Blues
  22. 22 Jeep Bounced Back
  23. 23 The Last Time I Saw Paris
  24. 24 Rosanne
  25. 25 This Love of Mine
  26. 26 Hodge Podge
  27. 27 Hodge Podge
  28. 28 Through for the Night
  29. 29 Come Sunday
  30. 30 The Sheik of Araby
  31. 31 Latino
  32. 32 In a Mellow Tone
  33. 33 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
  34. 34 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
+ His Orchestra
* digitally remastered

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Featuring: Roy Eldridge, Ray Nance, Emmett Berry (tp), Vic Dickenson, Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Ben Webster (ts), Billy Strayhorn, Leroy Lovett (p), Jimmy Woode, Wendell Marshall, Red Callender (b), Sam Woodyard, Jo Jones, Osie Johnson (d)

Johnny Hodges, the most distinctive and eloquent voice of the Duke Ellington boys, is the leader of these great 1958 sessions (without Duke), but with Billy Strayhorn, Duke’s alter ego on piano, and featuring such greats as Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster. Primarily noted for his ballads, Hodges could blow soft as a whisper or loud as a trumpet, but never forfeits his major concerns, excitement, taste and restraint, delivering pure quality with moving simplicity. “The warmest saxophonist of them all” is a frequently quoted and fulsome description of Johnny Hodges that has never, to anyone’s knowledge, been disputed. (freshsoundrecords. com)

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