Johnny Hodges
ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Johnny Hodges, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges
Back To Back (Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues)
Johnny Hodges
The Eleventh Hour
Johnny Hodges
Sandy's Gone
Johnny Hodges
Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges
InternationalColeman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges
Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! - Alive! At The Village Gate
Johnny Hodges, Earl Hines
Stride Right
Lawrence Welk, Johnny Hodges
Lawrence Welk & Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges
Castle Rock
Johnny Hodges
The Complete Verve Small Sessions 1956 - 1961
Johnny Hodges
Collates No. 2
Johnny Hodges
Collates
Johnny Hodges
Not So Dukish
Johnny Hodges
Duke's In Bed
Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges
Back To Back
192kHz/24-bit
Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges
Side By Side
192kHz/24-bitJohnny Hodges
Used To Be Duke
Johnny Hodges
Everybody Knows
Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges
Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn
Johnny Hodges With Billy Strayhorn And The Orchestra
Johnny Hodges
Jazz Masters 35
BIOGRAFIA
In one sense or another, Johnny Hodges was always on his own — even on the Ellington bandstand, where he began and became best known. He joined Ellington early in life, at twenty in 1928, and he died a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, suffering a heart attack in a dentist’s chair shortly after recording part of his lifelong boss’s New Orleans Suite in 1970. As a result, his sound, or his two principal sounds — the lusty warmth of his ballad readings and the offhand lilt of his uptempo improvisations — are inevitably associated with Ellington. Yet Hodges’s voice came entirely from within; as Ellington put it, he "is a consummate original." Indeed, Hodges is now widely acknowledged as one of the most individualistic interpretive voices in all jazz.
As a solo artist away from Ellington, Hodges had three mini-careers during his tenure with Norman Granz and the labels he launched: independent bandleader, after he resigned from the Ellington organization, 1951–55; soloist, mostly leading ensembles of Ellington orchestra members after he reunited with Duke, from 1956–61; and would-be jazz-pop star, working with the hit-oriented producer Creed Taylor, 1961–70.
David Hadju
As a solo artist away from Ellington, Hodges had three mini-careers during his tenure with Norman Granz and the labels he launched: independent bandleader, after he resigned from the Ellington organization, 1951–55; soloist, mostly leading ensembles of Ellington orchestra members after he reunited with Duke, from 1956–61; and would-be jazz-pop star, working with the hit-oriented producer Creed Taylor, 1961–70.
David Hadju
Excerpted from Johnny Hodges Jazz Masters 35 (Verve)
