DUKE ELLINGTON and JOHNNY HODGES SIDE BY SIDE
Released: 1959
Label: Verve
Format: Flac



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 well-known jazz figures like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jo Jones. The album, a follow-up to the popular Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues, has remained perpetually in print and was among the first of the Verve Music Group catalog to be transferred to CD, on March 23, 1999

Tracklist:
1."Stompy Jones" – 6:38
2."Just Squeeze Me" – 4:36
3."Big Shoe" – 5:37
4."Going Up" – 4:51
5."Just a Memory" – 5:53
6."Let's Fall in Love" – 6:47
7."Ruint" – 2:32
8."Bend One" – 2:59
9."You Need to Rock" – 5:52



Personnel:

Tracks 1, 2 and 4

Duke Ellington – piano
Johnny Hodges – saxophone: alto
Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
Les Spann – flute, guitar
Al Hall – bass
Jo Jones – drums

Recorded February 20, 1959

Tracks 3 and 5 through 9

Johnny Hodges – saxophone: alto
Roy Eldridge – trumpet
Lawrence Brown – trombone
Ben Webster – saxophone: tenor
Billy Strayhorn – piano
Wendell Marshall – bass
Jo Jones – drums