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Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin

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Released
  
June 1962

Artist
  
Johnny Hodges

Label
  
AVID Entertainment

Length
  
34:54

Release date
  
June 1962

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
November 18, 1958 Stuttgart, West Germany

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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.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review gave the album 3½ stars out of five, commenting "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".

Track listing

All compositions by George and Ira Gershwin except as indicated

  1. "Love Is Here to Stay" - 2:44
  2. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" - 3:13
  3. "'S Wonderful" - 2:51
  4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 2:59
  5. "Soon" - 2:58
  6. "But Not for Me" - 2:43
  7. "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald, Buddy DeSylva) - 2:31
  8. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" - 3:16
  9. "Someone to Watch over Me" - 3:14
  10. "The Man I Love" - 2:57
  11. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" - 2:38
  12. "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

    • Songs

    1Love Is Here to Stay (Remastered)2:45
    2Nice Work If You Can Get It (Remastered)3:13
    3'S Wonderful (Remastered)2:51

    References

    Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin Wikipedia
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