What talent that Johnny Hodges

The alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges is essentially to have a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1928 to 1954. This album is quite surprising in its carrirère because Hodges leads a large orchestra of winds and strings, a piano, bass and drums. The album was produced by Bob Thiele, Impulse producer awesome, arranged by Billy Strayhorn and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder. He resumed signed Ellington standards and original compositions signed Hodges and Strayhorn.
It is fairly representative of the albums of the first decade of the 1960s: all jazzy styles we are Donés to hear: blues, including "Everybody Knows" which opens the album is a blues, a genre in which Hodges has continued and cease to excel, "310 Blues" or "Main Stem" (standard Ellington worth us splendid solos Hodges alto sax, Hamilton and Paul Gonsalves on tenor sax, Ray Nance violin and tenor Lawrence Brown) and " Little Brother "which includes swings of moments worth us beautiful solos battery Johnny Hodges Sr; ellingtoniennes the ballads "I Let A Song Go On My Heart" and "Do not Get Around Anymore," a mixture of blues and funky ("Ruint").

Johnny Hodges reveals unfortunately ignored by this album he is also comfortable with large formations with small formations. You'll easily I love this album.