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Art Hodes

Arthur W. Hodes (November 14, 1904 in Russia; died March 4, 1993 in Harvey, Illinois) is an American jazz pianist born in Ukraine. His family settled in Chicago, Illinois when he was a few months old. His career began in Chicago clubs, but he did not gain wider attention until moving to New York City in 1938. In that city he played with Sidney Bechet, Joe Marsala, and Mezz Mezzrow. Later Hodes founded his own band in the 1940s and it would be associated with his home town of Chicago. He and his band played mostly in that area for the next forty years. He also wrote for jazz magazines like Jazz Record

Jive-Colored Glasses

By JOHN GOODMAN

The following is an excerpt from “Chapter 4: Chicago" of Jive-Colored Glasses by John F Goodman (jg publications, 2015). Growing up in and around jny: Chicago in the 1950s brought me to all kinds and flavors of jazz. Between the house parties, clubs and concerts, there was a menu to please everyone. The Rush ...

Up In Volly's Room

By ART HODES

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: St. Louis Blues; You Gotta Gimme Some; Struttin' With Some Barbecue; Tin Roof Blues; After You've Gone; Jackass Blues; Basin Street Blues; Volly's Room; I Know That You Know; Sobbin' Blues; Ode To Louis Armstrong; Ja Da; Panama Rag.

Art Hodes: Up In Volly's Room

By JACK HUNTLEY

Throughout his long career in and around the music industry, Art Hodes was a dedicated lover of what is now termed traditional jazz but was then the current, dynamic confluence of blues, ragtime and Dixieland influences. Coming of age in Chicago's vibrant 1920s music scene, Hodes digested the sounds of transplanted New Orleans musicians such as ...

Papa Bue: 80 at 80

By CHRIS MOSEY

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was an age of duffle coats, beards, sandals and sunglasses. It was the age of Trad. It was how European youth discovered jazz. Britain had Chris Barber, Ken Colyer and, a little further down the line--by which time newspaper headlines were referring to ...

Art Hodes: Friar's Inn Revisited

By AAJ ITALY STAFF

L’intento era quello di riproporre la musica dei New Orleans Rhythm Kings, il miglior gruppo bianco di jazz tradizionale nella Chicago degli anni ’20. A far rivivere la gioiosa prassi strumentale di Paul Mares e Leon Roppolo è un sestetto di veterani del jazz delle origini, capitanato dal pianista Art Hodes (1904-1993). Figura di spicco di ...

Friar's Inn Revisited

By ART HODES

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intro To Angry; Angry; Sobbin' Blues; That's A Plenty; TinRoof Blues; Panama; Clarinet Marmalade; NORK Blues; Sensation; Ja Da; The Real Thing; After You've Gone (alternate); I Know That You Know (alternate).

Art Hodes: Friar's Inn Revisited

By NIC JONES

Delmark has hit the spot with this reissue in terms of music as social history. Trombonist George Brunis and clarinetist Volly DeFaut were both members of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, a band that played Friar's Inn in Chicago in the 1920s, and at the time this music was caught--over the course of various dates in ...