Esplorando i dischi : Johnny Hodges – Used to be Duke

Album del 1954 di Johnny Hodges.
Track list :
“Used to Be Duke” (Johnny Hodges) – 7:24
“On the Sunny Side of the Street” (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:59
“Sweet as Bear Meat” (Hodges) – 3:22
“Madam Butterfly” (Jimmy Hamilton, Hodges) – 3:17
“Warm Valley” (Duke Ellington) – 3:24
Ballad medley: “Autumn In New York”/”Sweet Lorraine”/”Time On My Hands”/”Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”/”If You Were Mine”/”Poor Butterfly” (Vernon Duke)/(Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish)/(Vincent Youmans, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon)/(Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)/(Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer)/(Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 17:55
Line Up :
Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
Lawrence Brown – trombone
Shorty Baker – trumpet
Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 6)
Harry Carney – baritone saxophone
John Coltrane – tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3)
Call Cobbs, Jr. (tracks 1-5), Richie Powell (track 6) – piano
John “Buddy” Williams – double bass
Louie Bellson – drums