Time: 42:11
Size: 96.6 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 1958/2014
Art: Front
[3:32] 1. I Didn't Know About You
[3:36] 2. Cool Your Motor
[3:18] 3. Gone With The Wind
[4:02] 4. Honey Hill
[3:23] 5. Blues-A-Plenty
[3:40] 6. Don't Take Your Love From Me
[5:59] 7. Saturday Afternoon
[5:01] 8. Satin Doll
[9:36] 9. Reeling And Rocking
This record, which I played tonight, is masterful. If you're putting on a Johnny Hodges record, you likely know what you're hoping to hear; that Johnny Hodges sound; the cry and the wail and the strut. And here, he is in full command, effortlessly swinging in a laid-back, whiskey-soaked haze, surrounded by giants like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Billy Strayhorn and Jimmy Woode. It's precisely what you hoped for. A giant sound from a small combo - big blues for broken hearts.
No, they don't break new ground but that's not the point. In the notes on the back of the record, critic Benny Green writes: "...although jazz certainly evolves, its individuals do not, in the sense that once a musician has acquired the nuances of his own generation, they are his for the rest of his life, whether he wants them or not." I don't know that that's true; but for this album the expectations are met and exceeded in the execution and for that, it's more than comforting, it's exhilarating. ~Bink Figgins
No, they don't break new ground but that's not the point. In the notes on the back of the record, critic Benny Green writes: "...although jazz certainly evolves, its individuals do not, in the sense that once a musician has acquired the nuances of his own generation, they are his for the rest of his life, whether he wants them or not." I don't know that that's true; but for this album the expectations are met and exceeded in the execution and for that, it's more than comforting, it's exhilarating. ~Bink Figgins
Blues-A-Plenty
Great! Thx for Hodges! This must have been recorded in the period he'd left Duke's band and tried to go solo, though with really good musicians. Cheers Daniel, from Spain...
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