For over a century, jazz music has continued to be a living, breathing entity. To date, the music itself has defended itself admirably against those self-appointed guardians of last year's blues who would compartmentalize jazz as swing, bebop, cool, avant-garde, etc. Rather than hearing jazz as a sequence of separate styles, it is important to hear its continuity across time. Jazz is always on the cusp, always searching, always ready to incorporate a new discovery into the body of work that preceded it. There is no radical break between swing and bebop, between bebop and cool, between the early New Orleans styles and the avant-garde group improvisations of the 1960s. The music exists on a continuum.
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John Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges (July 25, 1906 – May 11, 1970)
1. Blood Count
(Strayhorn)
Duke Ellington
. . . And His Mother Called Him Bill
1967
Bluebird/RCA
soloist: Johnny Hodges - alto sax
2. Dual Highway
(Ellington/Hodges)
Duke Ellington
Unknown Session
recorded July 14, 1960
released 1979
Columbia
soloist: Johnny Hodges - alto sax
3. Come Sunday
(Ellington)
Duke Ellington
Volume Ten
Studio Sessions; New York & Chicago 1965, 1966,& 1971
recorded 1965
released 1987
LMR/Saja
soloists:
Chuck Connors - bass trombone
Ray Nance - violin
Duke Ellington - piano
Johnny Hodges - alto sax
4. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
(Mercer Ellington)
Duke Ellington
Festival Session
1959
Columbia
soloist: Johnny Hodges - alto sax
5. All Of Me
(Simone/Marks)
Duke Ellington
Jazz Party
1959
Columbia
soloist: Johnny Hodges - alto sax
6. Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)
(Ellington)
Duke Ellington
The Far East Suite
1967
Bluebird/RCA
soloists: Johnny Hodges - alto sax; Cat Anderson - trumpet
7. Passion Flower
(Strayhorn)
Duke Ellington
Volume Seven
Studio Sessions; 1957 & 1962
recorded 1962
released 1987
LMR/Saja
soloist: Johnny Hodges - alto sax
8. Never No Lament
(Ellington)
Duke Ellington
The Blanton-Webster Band (1940-1942)
1986
Bluebird
soloists:
Duke Ellington - piano/Lawrence Brown - trombone
Johnny Hodges - alto sax
Cootie Williams - trumpet
Lawrence Brown - trombone
Duke Ellington - piano
9. A Flower is a Lovesome Thing
(Strayhorn)
The Johnny Hodges All-Stars
recorded 1946
released 1992
Prestige
soloists: Johnny Hodges - alto sax; Billy Strayhorn - piano
10. Big Fat Alice's Blues
(Ellington)
Duke Ellington
Concert in the Virgin Islands
1965
Reprise
soloist: Johnny Hodges - alto sax
11. Half the Fun
(Ellington)
Duke Ellington
Such Sweet Thunder
(Dedicated to the Shakespearean Festival, Stratford, Ontario)
1957
Columbia
soloists: Johnny Hodges - alto sax; Duke Ellington - piano
12. Flirtibird
(Ellington)
Duke Ellington
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
Sony
soloists: Johnny Hodges - alto sax; Duke Ellington - piano
13. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
(Ellington/Hodges)
Duke Ellington
Meets Coleman Hawkins
1963
Impulse
soloists:
Johnny Hodges - alto sax
Ray Nance - cornet
Harry Carney - baritone sax
Lawrence Brown - trombone
Coleman Hawkins - tenor sax
Aaron Bell - bass
14. Prelude to a Kiss
(Gordon/Mills/Ellington)
Duke Ellington
Indigos
1958
Columbia
soloist: Johnny Hodges - alto sax
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