Description
Side By Side - Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges, plus others / Verve Records Audio CD 1999 Stereo / 314 521 405-2
UPC 731452140524
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.
Label: Verve Records – 314 521 405-2
Series: Verve Master Edition
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Digipack
Country: US
Released: 1999
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing
Tracklist:
| 1 | Stompy Jones | 6:37 | |
| 2 | Squeeze Me | 4:35 | |
| 3 | Big Shoe | 5:33 | |
| 4 | Going Up | 4:50 | |
| 5 | Just A Memory | 5:51 | |
| 6 | Let's Fall In Love | 6:46 | |
| 7 |
Ruint | 2:31 | |
| 8 | Bend One | 2:57 | |
| 9 | You Need To Rock |
5:51 |
- Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges
- Bass – Al Hall (tracks: 1, 2 & 4), Wendell Marshall (tracks: 3 & 5-9)
- Drums – Jo Jones
- Flute – Les Spann (tracks: 4)
- Guitar – Les Spann (tracks: 1 & 2)
- Liner Notes – Alun Morgan, Nat Hentoff
- Photography By – Burt Goldblatt
- Piano – Billy Strayhorn (tracks: 3 & 5-9), Duke Ellington (tracks: 1, 2 & 4)
- Supervised By – Norman Granz
- Tenor Saxophone – Ben Webster (tracks: 3 & 5-9)
- Trombone – Lawrence Brown (tracks: 3, 5 & 7-9)
- Trumpet – Harry Edison (tracks: 1, 2 & 4), Roy Eldridge (tracks: 3 & 5-9)
