Side_by_Side_(Duke_Ellington_and_Johnny_Hodges_album)

<i>Side by Side</i> (Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album)

Side by Side (Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album)

1959 Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album

Although it is billed as a Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album, Side by Side is a 1959 album mostly under the leadership of Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington's alto saxophonist for many years. Ellington only appears on three of this album's tracks. The album places Hodges at the fore, backing him with piano by Ellington or Billy Strayhorn and providing other accompaniment by jazz figures like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jo Jones. The album, a follow-up to Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues, has remained perpetually in print.[6]

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Track listing

  1. "Stompy Jones" (Duke Ellington) – 6:38
  2. "Squeeze Me" (Fats Waller, Clarence Williams) – 4:36
  3. "Big Shoe" (Jimmy Hamilton) – 5:37
  4. "Going Up" (D. Ellington) – 4:51
  5. "Just a Memory" (Ray Henderson, Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva) – 5:53
  6. "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 6:47
  7. "Ruint" (Mercer Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 2:32
  8. "Bend One" (Hodges) – 2:59
  9. "You Need to Rock" (Hodges) – 5:52

Personnel

Tracks 1, 2 and 4

These tracks were recorded February 26, 1959

Tracks 3 and 5 through 9

These tracks were recorded August 14, 1958

Nat Hentoff – liner notes[7]

Notes

  1. [1]
    AllMusic review
  2. [2]
    Wilson, John S. (28 April 1960). "Duke Ellington-Johnny Hodges: Side by Side". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 9. p. 38.
  3. [3]
    Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. [4]
    Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Essential Jazz Albums of the 1950s". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  5. [5]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. [6]
    Chambers, Jack. "Sweet as Bear Meat: The Paradox of Johnny Hodges". (July/August 2001) Coda 298, pp. 16–20.
  7. [7]
    Side By Side Verve Music Group catalog. Accessed September 17, 2007.
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