Duke Ellington Johnny Hodges-in Color

[anthonyhollis100]

I love Ellington's music and the way he was able to showcase his musicians to the very best effect. Johnny Hodges had the sweetest sound ever on alto - set against the straining Ellington brass just trying to get out Hodges always played with them - almost teasing them with his beautiful sound. The only problem with this is Duke's awful rug. The Jeep meets the Wherewolf.....

[silowhore]

who's the white dude on teh trombone?

[Ambaryerno]

Oh god, I wish I could have played like that.

[wibli]

wow, no sheet music, nobody

[antoniodcz]

I'm a pianist but when I hear Johnny Hodges, I wish I played saxophone, what a beautiful sound. thanks for posting

[RYANN36]

@antoniodcz It's never to late to start playing the sax m8 XD

[Alvin276]

Someone please tell me: "How cool can a sax get!" Duke was and remains in a world of his own. Distinctly separate and a part. Isn't it amazing how Ellington, Armstrong, and many others could say all that needed to be said in a song in 3 minutes or less? Just about all the old classics were done in this way. Artist today often taken 6 or 7 minutes to say half as much. I like R&B and Pop but with jazz, I'm always discovering something new, even on a 60 yr old record I've heard over 100 times.

[Sprigganewok]

@Alvin276

The reason that the songs were only 3 minutes or less is because there was a time limitation of 3 minutes on the records they were using. I'm sure if they could have recorded longer songs they would have.

[darkimage198]

@Alvin276

A lot of this is because that's how long vinyls could record. That was the capacity of recording back then. It wasn't intentional. Some of the New Orleans stuff lasted over 15 minutes when it was performed live, they just shorten it when recording it "bare bones."

[timpuget]

whats the name of this concert? and year

thank you

[helluvagun]

I like the way Hodges mostly lingers sweetly over the rest, and his laidback appearance. It all comes so easy from him!

[M51210]

Heard this in a movie I saw some 13 years ago, name of it escapes me tho, nice vid

[c4rv3r]

Jeep's playing a Buescher 400 TH&C in this video! :)

[basbies0]

love how the tenor player plays in a 45 degree angle :P

[saxophoney]

This is great! That intro is awesome and with that shuffle going it swings like crazy!

[musik711]

Johnny Hodges = Love <333

This is so lame, but because Hodges is my favorite alto player of all time, I named my alto "Johnny" lmao :P

[tjc197]

Lol, Sandy, you sax-naming thing, you....

[musik711]

Stop lurking my youtube Tyler :P

[annanoli]

Ha! i did the same with my alto.

then guess:

my tenor is named Tex

my Bari is named Ernie

my 2nd alto is Les

my 3rd alto is Hymie...remember them?

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Absolutely friggin awesome. Quality for our lives. Thx.

Feel free to check out my swing&jazz site, if you like. For link see my profile.

All Best & Keep it up,

BRUNO!

[MagicRain505]

Great Hodges solo, but not my favorite arrangement of the song.

Whoa, man. Swingin, bro. Listen to that interaction Johnny has with the band, making it sound like it wasn't even arranged. It was so perfect.

[LAZ2380]

Nice video post man!!!!

I love Duke Ellington´s music and especially the performance of his 1st alto sax player Johnny Hodges, his sound is great, one of the best players, and please one request: Can you upload the "Satin Doll" Video in color of this very same feature show of Duke Ellington please?

Best