Johnny Hodges - Not So Dukish

Contains all of "Not so Dukish" + 7 bonus track

15 tracks

M.H.R.
Broadway Babe
Three and Six
Not so Dukish
Central Park Swing
Preacher Blues
Jeep Bounced Back
The Last Time I Saw Paris

Bonus tracks

First Klass (Aka C'mon Home)
Second Klass
Straight Back
Steerage
Third Klass
Once in a While
Blues Serenade

Johnny Hodges, the most distinctive and eloquent voice of the Duke Ellington boys, is the leader of these great 1959 sessions (without Duke), but with Billy Strayhorn, Dukes alter ego on piano, and featuring such greats as Roy Eldridge and Ben Webster. Primarily noted for his ballads, Hodges could blow soft as a whisper or loud as a trumpet, but never forfeits his major concerns, excitement, taste and restraint, delivering pure quality with moving simplicity. The warmest saxophonist of them all is a frequently quoted and fulsome description of Johnny Hodges that has never, to anyone's knowledge, been disputed.