Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin
1962 studio album by Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin | ||||
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Studio album by Johnny Hodges | ||||
Released | June 1962 | |||
Recorded | November 18, 1958 Stuttgart, West Germany | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 34:54 | |||
Label | Verve MGV 8314 | |||
Johnny Hodges chronology | ||||
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Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin is an album by saxophonist Johnny Hodges accompanied by an orchestra performing Gershwin tunes recorded in Stuttgart in 1958 for the Verve label.[1][2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The AllMusic reviewer commented: "All of these performances, like most of the music in the latter day Johnny Hodges discography, combine the elegant tonal ligatures of swing and cool".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by George and Ira Gershwin, except as indicated.
- "Love Is Here to Stay" - 2:44
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It" - 3:13
- "'S Wonderful" - 2:51
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 2:59
- "Soon" - 2:58
- "But Not for Me" - 2:43
- "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald, Buddy DeSylva) - 2:31
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" - 3:16
- "Someone to Watch over Me" - 3:14
- "The Man I Love" - 2:57
- "Oh, Lady Be Good!" - 2:38
- "They All Laughed" - 2:50
Personnel
- Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
- Horst Jankowski - piano
- Unidentified string section arranged by Russ Garcia and conducted by Wolfram Röhrig
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
leader or
co-leader
- Castle Rock (1951–52)
- In a Tender Mood (1951–52)
- The Blues (1952–54)
- Used to Be Duke (1954)
- Creamy (1955)
- Duke's in Bed (1956)
- Ellingtonia '56 (1956)
- The Big Sound (1957)
- Blues A-Plenty (1958)
- Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin (1958)
- Not So Dukish (1958)
- Side by Side (and Duke Ellington, 1958–59)
- Back to Back (and Duke Ellington, 1959)
- Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (1959)
- Blue Hodge (1961)
- Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (1961)
- Blue Rabbit (and Wild Bill Davis, 1963–64)
- Sandy's Gone (1963)
- Mess of Blues (and Wild Bill Davis, 1963)
- Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (1964–65)
- Blue Pyramid (and Wild Bill Davis, 1965–66)
- Con-Soul & Sax (1965–66)
- Inspired Abandon (and Lawrence Brown, 1965)
- Joe's Blues (and Wild Bill Davis, 1965)
- Wings & Things (nd Wild Bill Davis, 1965)
- Blue Notes (1966)
- Stride Right (and Earl Hines, 1966)
- Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges in Atlantic City (1966)
- Don't Sleep in the Subway (1967)
- Swing's Our Thing (and Earl Hines, 1967)
- Triple Play (1967)
- Rippin' & Runnin' (1968)
- 3 Shades of Blue (1970)
others
- Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (and Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge, 1962)
- Joya Sherrill Sings Duke (Joya Sherrill, 1965)
- Cue for Saxophone (Billy Strayhorn, 1959)
- Taylor Made Jazz (Billy Taylor, 1959)
- Duke with a Difference (Clark Terry, 1957)