Johnny Hodges

• 5 STARS DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE

• INCLUDES 12 PAGE BOOKLET

This edition presents the complete Johnny Hodges album The Big Sound, appearing here for the first time ever on CD. In addition to Hodges, many important figures from the Ellington band are also featured here, including Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Billy Strayhorn and Paul Gonsalves. A complete rarely heard Hodges octet session from the same period and with very similar personnel has been added as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

• JOHNNY HODGES, alto sax on all tracks, with:

• (1-4) Willie Cook, Cat Anderson, Harold “Shorty” Baker, Clark Terry (tp), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Ray Nance (tp, vln), Jimmy Hamilton (ts, cl), Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders (tb), Russell Procope (cl, as), Harry Carney (bar),Billy Strayhorn (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d).
• New York, September 3, 1957.

• (6, 8, 10 & 12) Same session as above. Omit Cook, Anderson, Woodman & Sanders.

• (5, 7, 9 & 11) Clark Terry (tp), Ray Nance (tp, vln), Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders (tb), Russell Procope (cl, as), Jimmy Hamilton (ts, cl), Harry Carney (bar), Billy Strayhorn (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d).
• New York, June 26, 1957.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS (13-16):
• Ray Nance (tp), Lawrence Brown (tb), Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Harry Carney (bar), Billy Strayhorn (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d).
• New York, January 11, 1956.

TRACKS:

• 01 DON’T CALL ME. I’LL CALL YOU
• 02 AN ORDINARY THING
• 03 WAITING FOR DUKE
• 04 DUST BOWL
• 05 LITTLE RABBIT BLUES
• 06 VISCOUNT
• 07 JOHNNY COME LATELY
• 08 BOUQUET OF ROSES
• 09 GONE AND CRAZY
• 10 DIGITS
• 11 SEGDOH
• 12 EARLY MORNING ROCK
• 13 HI ‘YA (*)
• 14 SNIBOR (*)
• 15 I’M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER (*)
• 16 TEXAS BLUES 1(*)

• TOTAL TIME: 73:15