|
Formats and Editions
1. You Blew Out the Flame in My Heart [Rabbit's Blues]
2. Something to Pat Your Foot to
3. Blue Fantasia
4. My Reward
5. Good Queen Bess
6. Jeep's Blues
7. Solitude
8. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
9. Castle Rock
10. Sophisticated Lady
11. Globetrotter
12. A Gentle Breeze
13. Sideways
14. A Pound of Blues
15. Wham
16. Who's Excited ?
17. Sweepin' the Blues Away
18. Day Dream
19. Standing Room Only
20. Below the Azores
21. Tenderly
22. Sweet Georgia Brown
23. Duke's Blues (PT 1 ; PT 2)
24. Tea for Two
25. What's I'm Gotchere?
26. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
27. Nothing Yet
28. Rosanne
29. Hodge Podge
30. Jappa
31. Through for the Night
32. Come Sunday
33. The Sheik of Araby
34. Latino
35. Easy Going Bounce
36. Indiana
37. Johnny's Blues (PTS 1 ; 2)
38. In a Mellow Tone
39. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
40. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
41. Burgundy Walk
More Info:
Johnny Hodges - The Clef & Norgran Albums 1951-54 - It's a snapshot of a particular and intriguing phase of Johnny Hodges' career. - Johnny Hodges was a jazz alto saxophonist, who enjoyed a performing and recording career that lasted from the 1920s through to his death in 1970. Best-known for his work with Duke Ellington, he had a pure tone and economy of melody on both the blues and ballads that won him admiration from musicians of all eras and styles, and made him ubiquitous on recording sessions across the spectrum of jazz. He occasionally led his own bands, and this 41-track 2-CD collection focuses on albums he made in a concentrated period in the mid-1950s with his small orchestra for the Clef and Norgran labels, owned by renowned impresario and producer Norman Granz, which were forerunners of Verve. It features the titles from the albums. "Johnny Hodges Collates", "Johnny Hodges Collates No. 2", "Swing With Johnny Hodges", "Memories of Ellington", "Castle Rock", "The Blues" and "In A Tender Mood", with some of the titles appearing on more than one album. A number of the titles were also released as singles, and two of them "Castle Rock " and "A Pound Of Blues", were US R&B hits. It naturally features some notable musicians of the era, including Al Sears, Leroy Lovett, Billy Strayhorn, Al McGibbon, Sonny Greer, Emmett Berry, Lloyd Trotman, Flip Phillips, Red Callender, Ray Brown, J.C. Heard and others. It's a snapshot of a particular and intriguing phase of Johnny Hodges' career, and a great showcase for his understated virtuosity as a jazz musician and leader.
