Side by Side (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Side by Side
Type = studio
Artist = Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges


Released = 1959
Recorded = August 14 1958 – February 20 1959
Genre = jazz
Length = 45:45
Label = Verve
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wc03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0zftxqugldje~T1 link]
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"Side by Side" is a 1959 album featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges, Ellington's lead saxophonist for many years. The album places Hodges at the fore, backing him with piano by Ellington or Billy Strayhorn and providing other accompaniment by well-known jazz figures like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Jo Jones. The album, a follow-up to the popular "Ellington and Hodges Play the Blues Back to Back", has remained perpetually in print and was among the first of the Verve Music Group catalog to be transferred to CD, [Chambers, Jack. "Sweet as Bear Meat: The Paradox of Johnny Hodges". (July/August 2001) "Coda" 298, pp. 16-20.] on March 23 1999. [ [http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=disc&src=art&pid=10306 Side By Side] Verve Music Group catalog. Accessed September 17 2007.]

Track listing

#"Stompy Jones" (Duke Ellington) – 6:38
#"Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)" (Ellington, Lee Gaines) – 4:36
#"Big Shoe" (Jimmy Hamilton) – 5:37
#"Going Up" (Ellington) – 4:51
#"Just a Memory" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 5:53
#"Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 6:47
#"Ruint" (Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 2:32
#"Bend One" (Hodges) – 2:59
#"You Need to Rock" (Hodges) – 5:52

Personnel

*Lawrence Brown – trombone
*Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
*Roy Eldridge – trumpet
*Duke Ellington – piano
*Al Hall – bass
*Johnny Hodges – saxophone: alto
*Jo Jones – drums
*Wendell Marshall – bass
*Les Spann – flute, guitar
*Billy Strayhorn – piano
*Ben Webster – saxophone: tenor
*Norman Granz – producer
*Nat Hentoff – liner notes

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