Side by Side (Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album)
1959 Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although it is billed as a Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges album, Side by Side is a 1959 album mostly under the leadership of Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington's alto saxophonist for many years. Ellington only appears on three of this album's tracks. The album places Hodges at the fore, backing him with piano by Ellington or Billy Strayhorn and providing other accompaniment by jazz figures like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jo Jones. The album, a follow-up to Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues, has remained perpetually in print.[6]
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Released | 1959 | |||
Recorded | August 14, 1958 – Nola Studios, New York City February 20, 1959 -Columbia Studios, New York | |||
Genre | jazz | |||
Length | 45:45 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
DownBeat | [2] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Tom Hull | A[4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [5] |
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