Johnny Hodges Septet Featuring Ben Webster – Blues-A-Plenty – Vinyl LP

Coloured Vinyl, High Quality, Reissue

Hodges’s own work is long overdue a comprehensive revaluation that doesn’t take the Ellington material as the only measure. He was a remarkable and multi-faceted musician whose vision was sometimes blurred by resentment but glorious when allowed to shine through unfettered. The youngsters of bebop and hard-bop could well ignore conventions, but the era of swing continued thanks to these (more or less) old men. And far from making us feel blue, their blues brings smiles to all faces. This is great art.

Side A
1 I Didn’t Know About You
2 Cool Your Motor
3 Gone With The Wind
4 Honey Hill
5 Blues-A-Plenty
6 Don’t Take Your Love From Me
7 Central Park Swing

Side B
1 Saturday Afternoon Blues
2 Satin Doll
3 Reelin’ And Rockin’
4 M.H.R.