Johnny Hodges
NOT SO
DUKISH (3 LPS ON 2 CDS)
Personnel:
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)
Reference: FSRCD 574_2
Includes a
16-page booklet with recording details, extensive notes and rare photos.
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, Dukes 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 anyones knowledge, been
disputed.
Tracklisting:
CD 1
01. Blues a
Plenty (3:23)
02. Cool
Your Motor (3:37)
03. Gone
with the Wind (3:18)
04. Honey
Hill (4:03)
05. I Didnt
Know About You (3:32)
06. Satin
Doll (5:01)
07. Reelin
and Rockin (9:35)
08. Dont
Take Your Love from Me (3:39)
09. Saturday
Afternoon Blues (5:59)
10. Just a
Memory (5:52)
11. Lets Fall
in Love (6:46)
12. Big Shoe
(5:33)
13. Ruint
(2:32)
14. Bend One
(2:58)
15. You Need
to Rock (5:52)
CD 2
01. M.H.R
(5:58)
02. Broadway
Babe (2:43)
03. Three
and Six (2:20)
04. Not so
Dukish (7:51)
05. Central
Park Swing (3:24)
06. Preacher
Blues (8:22)
07. Jeep
Bounced Back (3:35)
08. The Last
Time I Saw Paris (2:53)
09. Rosanne
(3:08) (*) Bonus Track
10. This
Love of Mine (3:07) (*) Bonus Track
11. Hodge
Podge (3:36) (*) Bonus Track
12. Jappa 3
(3:53) (*) Bonus Track
13. Through
for the Night (3:18) (*) Bonus Track
14. Come
Sunday (2:32) (*) Bonus Track
15. The
Sheik of Araby (3:15) (*) Bonus Track
16. Latino
(2:55) (*) Bonus Track
17. In a
Mellow Tone (6:18) (*) Bonus Track
18. I Let a
Song Go Out of My Heart (3:08) (*) Bonus Track
19. Dont Get
Around Much Anymore (3:45) (*) Bonus Track
Total time: 148 min.
CD 1, tracks
#1-9 from the album:
"Blues-a-Plenty"
(Verve MGV-8358)
CD 1, tracks
#10-15 from the album:
"Side
By Side" (Verve MGV-8345)
CD 2, tracks
#1-8 from the album:
"Not So
Dukish" (Verve MGV-8355)
CD 2, tracks
#9-19 are bonus tracks.
Personnel on
"Blues-a-Plenty":
Roy Eldridge
(tp), Vic Dickenson (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Ben Webster (ts), Billy Strayhorn
(p), Jimmy Woode (b) and Sam Woodyard (d). Recorded in New York City, on April
5, 1958.
Personnel on "Side By
Side":
Roy Eldridge
(tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Ben Webster (ts), Billy
Strayhorn (p), Jimmy Woode, Wendell Marshall (b) and Jo Jones (d). Recorded in
New York City, on August 14, 1958.
Personnel on "Not So
Dukish":
Roy
Eldridge, Ray Nance (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Ben Webster
(ts), Billy Strayhorn (p), Jimmy Woode (b) and Sam Woodyard (d). Recorded in
New York City, on September 10, 1958.
(*) This set
also contains, as a bonus, three of the most consistently rewarding small
Hodges units featuring Ben Websterrecorded between 1952-1954 and roughly
patterned after Rabbit Hodges classic combos of the 40s.
Personnel on
tracks #9-12: Emmett Berry (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Ben
Webster (ts), Leroy Lovett (p), Red Callender (b) and J.C. Heard (d). Al Hibbler
(vcl on #10). Recorded in Los Angeles, California, on July 22, 1952.
Personnel on
tracks #13-16: Emmett Berry (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Ben
Webster, Rudy Williams (ts), Ted Brannon (p), Barney Richmond (b) and Al Walker
(d). Recorded in New York City, on December 11, 1952.
Personnel on
tracks #17-19: Emmett Berry (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Johnny Hodges (as), Ben
Webster (ts), Leroy Lovett (p), Lloyd Trotman (b) and Osie Johnson (d).
Recorded in New York City, on April 9, 1954.
Original recordings produced by Norman Granz.
This
compilation produced by Jordi Pujol.