DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) JLS Producer Lee Hazlewood called it

Producer Lee Hazlewood called it hippie-billy

these are the sounds of Dirty Three getting up to speed again

and Joe Seiders exploring fresh territory and shattering the barriers of their collective comfort zone

They are all bangers and because of the wealth of material

For fans of: Jenny Hval

DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) JLS Producer Lee Hazlewood called itLP Verves Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180 gram black vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging. 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,