Johnny Hodges - Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra
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Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra
Music Price: $14.98
As of Nov 22 5:07 EST (details)
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| Artist(s) | Johnny Hodges |
| Studio | Polygram Records |
| Release Date | March 23, 1999 |
| UPC Code | 731455754322 |
| Buy this item | $14.98 at Amazon.com
As of Nov 22 5:07 EST (details)
1 Audio CD, Usually ships in 24 hours, Original recording remastered
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Tracks
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
- The Gal from Joe's
- Your Love Has Faded
- I'm Just a Lucky So and So - Johnny Hodges, David, Mack
- Jeep's Blues
- Day Dream
- Juice A-Plenty - Johnny Hodges, Hodges, Johnny
- Azure
- Tailor Made - Johnny Hodges, Hodges, Johnny
- Stardust - Johnny Hodges, Carmichael, Hoagy
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User Reviews
Average user review: 
(6 reviews)
| |  | JOHHY HODGES WITH BILL STRAYHORN AND HIS ORCHESTRA |  |
SERVICE WAS FAST . CD ARRIVED IN PERFECT CONDITION . THIS IS SOME GREAT JAZZ .
September 20, 2008| | | I think it sounds as it should sound | |
This is a great record. It fulfills my desire of listening to a good set of Johnny Hodges performances gathered in one album. The wonderful ballads or the wonder that "I`m Just a Lucky So-and-so" or the freshness of "Tailor Made" are worth a listening. This is the way I wanted to listen to, I don't miss new arragements. Highly recommended.
March 29, 2008Listening to this CD has prompted me to start buying more music from this time/style. Sensuous, playful, teasing, mellow, tender... just some of the adjectives that are evoked while listening to Mr. Hodges' saxophone. This one will be on my playlist for a long, long time...
March 11, 2000| | | A MUST HAVE FOR ALL ELLINGTON STRAYHORN FANS! | |
And that goes for all Johnny Hodges fans too. If you hear a more lovely reading of "Your Love Has Faded" anywhere, I'd like to know where. Hodges was at the pinnacle of his career and Strayhorn finally got some overdue recognition and lee way to do a fantastic album of covers and originals. Its unknown exactly what was Strayhorn's and what was Ellington's when it came to the big band's compositions, but some of the very best are right here. Where "Faded" moans in an achingly beautiful way, "Tailor Made" and "Juice-A-Plenty" really swing! It is important to remember that Johnny Hodges, while being a very articulate man (probably brushed off from Duke himself) could barely read or even sign his name. Thank God he knew how to play sax!!!
August 17, 1999| | | A rare look at Hodges and Strayhorn without Ellington | |
This disc which is the result of a session in 1961 that features Johhny Hodges on alto sax with Billy Strayhorn as the band leader. Detail of the session is related in Lush Life the biographpy of Billy Strayhorn (pg 217). Briefly, Strayhorn was given free rein in providing new arrangments of songs by Ellington, Hodges and himself. In the 30 plus years they worked together Strayhorn used the Ellington orchestra to feature Hodges. However, this disc really puts Hodges in the forefront of the orchestra and the results are tremendous. Hodges, under Strayhorns direction gives top notch redendtions of 2 of the greatest songs they did together, Day Dream and I Got It Bad. I haven't stopped playing this disc, comparing the arrangements by Strayhorn and playing by Hodges against other Ellington discs. Another one you may want to try is "And His Mother Called Him Bill" which I think is Hodges greatest performance. Oh by the way, Happy 100th Birthday Duke (April 29th) We love you madly!
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