DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) MCLAUGHLIN / MEOLA / LUCIA The music of Frédéric Chopin

The music of Frédéric Chopin has been recorded hundreds of times before

” testifies to Dana’s appreciation for the theatrical and the cinematic

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playing nearly all the instruments himself and inviting kindred spirits into the process such as Cindy Lee

This is the first time a collection of the band’s work has been available at this price point and this release provides a perfect introductory walk-through the back catalogue of one of the all-time influential rock bands

DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) MCLAUGHLIN / MEOLA / LUCIA The music of Frédéric ChopinLP 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,