Artist: 
Duke Ellington

Side By Side

Acoustic Sounds Vinyl
€39,99

Release date: 18 April 2025

Article Number: 514416000

When Norman Granz signed Johnny Hodges to a recording contract in 1951, it was a prelude to Hodges' leaving the Duke Ellington orchestra to lead his own small band. Four years later Hodges was back in the Ellington fold, but he continued to record for Granz under his own name. "Side By Side", recorded in 1958 and 1959, is a throwback to the small-group sessions Ellington recorded with Hodges and other members of his orchestra in the Thirties, but with a couple of important differences: the absence of Duke Ellington himself on several cuts (with Billy Strayhorn taking over on piano), and the presence of such notable non-Ellingtonians as drummer Jo Jones and trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison.

VERVE ACOUSTIC SOUNDS SERIES: Stereo, mastered fully analogue from the original tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, QPR pressing (180 g), firm tip-on gatefold (Stoughton Printing), padded inner sleeve.

Tracklisting:

A1 Stompy Jones

A2 Squeeze Me

A3 Big Shoe

A4 Going Up

B1 Just A Memory

B2 Let's Fall In Love

B3 Ruint

B4 Bend One

B5 You Need To Rock