Hodges’ stay with Duke Ellington totalled some 38 years, on and off, but this album covers a twenty-year period from 1943, during which the great altoist took several sabbaticals with other groups.
The nineteen mostly Hodges or Ellington compositions were recorded in various venues, stretching from Los Angeles to Stockholm.
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Track Listing :
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Passion Flower; Perdido; All Of Me; C Jam Blues; I Got It Bad And That Ain’t Good; In A Mellow Tone; Cambridge Blues; Brute’s Roots; Bouncing With Ben; One For The Duke; Walkin’ The Frog; Rabbit Pie; On The Sunny Side Of The Street; Good Queen Bess; The Jeep Is Jumpin’; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; Jeep’s Blues; Dooji Wooji.
Personnel :
Johnny Hodges (alto sax); Duke Ellington and Orchestra; Ben Webster, John Coltrane, Paul Gonsalves (tenor sax); Victor Feldman, Al Williams, Billy Strayhorn (piano); Fred Guy, Herb Ellis (guitar); Aaron Bell, Wilfred Middlebrooks, Wendell Marshall (bass); Gus Johnson, Lou Levy, Sonny Greer (drums).
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