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Hodges: Front and Center, Vol.1

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Royal Garden Blues; Viscount; I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter; Digits; Ballade for the Very Sad and Very Tired Lotus Eaters; Take The A Train; Just A Memory; You Need to Rock

Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center, Vol.1

by Pierre Giroux
November 5, 2022

Johnny Hodges was a unique instrumentalist whose alto saxophone playing was readily recognizable due to his tone, phrasing, and melodic engagement in improvisation. For the greater part of his musical life, he was anchored in the middle chair of the Duke Ellington Orchestra's saxophone section. However Hodges never turned down an opportunity to stretch out in ...