Weary Blues (Johnny Hodges)

Johnny Hodges · 1959 · Album Back to Back avec Duke Ellington (Verve)

Context

Track from Back to Back, a 1959 Verve album produced by Norman Granz on which Hodges plays blues with Duke Ellington on piano. Jazz Music Archives dates the session to February 20, 1959 in New York; Wikipedia specifies that the tracks with Al Hall on bass were recorded six days later.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.

By the same artist

• Wabash Blues (1959)
• Loveless Love (1959)
• Jeep's Blues (1938)

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com
• EN: Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

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