Johnny Hodges - Jazz Masters 35

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 77:16

Size: 176.9 MB

Styles: Swing, Saxophone jazz

Year: 1994

Art: Front

[ 2:55] 1. Jeep's Blues

[ 2:50] 2. Castle Rock

[ 3:19] 3. Passion Flower

[ 2:52] 4. Duke's In Bed

[ 9:21] 5. Little Rabbit Blues

[ 3:35] 6. Early Morning Rock

[ 4:03] 7. Honey Hill

[ 2:52] 8. The Last Time I Saw Paris

[ 7:50] 9. Not So Dukish

[ 7:26] 10. Black Beat

[ 2:26] 11. The Gal From Joe's

[ 3:34] 12. Rosetta

[ 3:14] 13. Don't Sleep In The Subway

[13:26] 14. Funky Blues

[ 7:26] 15. Squatty Roo

Though this CD of course is limited to material owned by Verve, it nonetheless offers a sometimes surprising overview of Johnny Hodges in the latter half of his career. We get a great variety of ensemble shapes, some loosely tethered to Duke by the presence of Strayhorn, some not. The CD climaxes with an extraordinary performance of the Blanton era vintage "Squaty Roo", performed by the Jeep with Dizzy Gillespie in 1959 or so, featuring Les Spann, among others. Hodges was the embodiment of Swing, and simultaneously a blues player unexcelled. Here, he stays totally abreast of Dizzy, the most agile and postclassical of all jazz musicians, but with a hint of bemusement, reminiscent of the distance he ostentated in the presence of Duke Ellington. What a mystery of a musician, at once skeptical and emotive, with the power of a natural force! ~Liner notes by David Hajdu

Jazz Masters 35

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