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, 1958Stuttgart, West Germany Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin(1958) Back to Back Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues(1959) Similar Blue Hodge, Duke's in Bed, Not So Dukish, Blues‑A‑Plenty, Blue Rabbit

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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.

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

"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

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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