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| Artist: Duke Ellington Johnny Hodges
Label: Universal Classics
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 71630
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 46
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 521405
UPC: 731452140524
EAN: 0731452140524
ASIN: B00000IKVA
Release Date: May 25, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Stompy Jones - Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington | | • | Squeeze Me - Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington | | • | Big Shoe - Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | | • | Going Up - Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington | | • | Just A Memory - Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | | • | Let's Fall In Love - Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra, Duke Ellington | | • | Ruint - Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | | • | Bend One - Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | | • | You Need To Rock - Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Of all the huge number of Ellington recordings, very few feature his unique piano work at any length, and those that do are usually unpopulated with front-line horns. By contrast, the three tracks here that involve him (and those on the Back To Back album from the same session) show him interacting with Johnny Hodges and trumpeter Harry Edison in a unique sextet. Edison, Les Spann (guitar/flute), Al Hall (bass) and ex-Basie drummer Jo Jones were musicians he was unaccustomed to working with, and the inspirational sparks flew. A storming version of "Stompy Jones" (especially during the piano solo and closing ensemble), the lesser-known "Goin' Up" from the movie Cabin In The Sky, plus Fats Waller's "Squeeze Me" are performances to treasure. More conventional but not inferior are the remaining septet tracks led by Hodges with Billy Strayhorn on piano, Ben Webster, Lawrence Brown and Roy Eldridge. All the tunes are played at various medium tempos, and everything is imbued with relaxed swing. Once more, the combination of a Ducal atmosphere with the non-Ellingtonians Eldridge and Jo Jones (again) makes for a highly successful performance. --Brian Priestley
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