Released 1955 | Release date 1955 Label AVID Entertainment | |
Recorded July 22, 1952, December 11, 1952, September 17, 1953 and July 2, 1954San Francisco, CA, New York City and Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA Jazz albums Used to Be Duke, Castle Rock, Cosmopolite, New Jazz Sounds, The Wailing Buddy Rich |
The Blues is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1952, 1953 and 1954 and released on the Norgran label.
Contents
Reception
The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars out of 5.
Track listing
All compositions by Johnny Hodges except as indicated
- "Rosanne" (Glenn Osser, Edna Osser, Dick Manning) - 3:06
- "Hodge-Podge" (Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington) - 3:33
- "Jappa" - 3:49
- "Through for the Night" (Trummy Young) - 3:14
- "The Sheik of Araby" (Ted Snyder, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler) - 3:12
- "Latino" - 2:57
- "Johnny's Blues" (Edith Cue Hodges) - 7:00
- "Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) - 3:48
- "Easy Going Bounce" (Leroy Lovett) - 3:30
- "Burgundy Walk" - 7:05
Personnel
Songs
1Rosanne (Remastered)3:13
2Hodge-Podge (Remastered)3:39
3Jappa (Remastered)3:56
References
The Blues (Johnny Hodges album) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA