Title from disc label. Johnny Hodges, alto and soprano saxophone ; with his orchestra and with Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra. Recorded 1940-1946. Contains previously released material. Booklet with biographical and program notes by Orrin Keepnews and Loren Schoenberg (16 unnumbered pages) inserted in container.
Contents:
Rockabye river (hop, skip, jump) / Duke Ellington (2:59). Good Queen Bess (take 1) / Johnny Hodges (2:58) -- Good Queen Bess (take 2) / Johnny Hodges (2:58) -- That's the blues old man / Johnny Hodges (2:54) -- Junior hop / Duke Ellington (3:04) -- Squatty roo / Johnny Hodges (2:22) -- Passion flower / Billy Strayhorn (3:05) -- Things ain't what they used to be / Mercer Ellington (3:36) -- Going out the back way / Johnny Hodges (2:40) -- Never no lament (don't get around much anymore) / Duke Ellington (3:16) -- Blue goose / Duke Ellington (3:21) -- In a mellotone / Duke Ellington (3:16) -- Warm valley / Duke Ellington (3:13) -- After all / Billy Strayhorn (3:20) -- The giddybug gallop / Duke Ellington (3:30) -- I got it bad (and that ain't good) / Paul Francis Webster ; Duke Ellington (3:19) -- Clementine / Billy Strayhorn (2:58) -- Moon mist / Mercer Ellington (2:58) -- Sentimental lady / Duke Ellington (3:01) -- Come Sunday / Duke Ellington (4:29) -- Mood to be woo'd / Johnny Hodges ; Duke Ellington (2:57) -- Rockabye river (hop, skip, jump) / Duke Ellington (2:59).
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