Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges: Side By Side (180g) (LP)

With his unmistakable, incredibly elegant phrasing on the alto saxophone, Johnny Hodges was - with only a brief interruption in the early 1950s - one of the defining voices of the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1928 until his death in 1970. They proved that their musical complicity also worked excellently on a small scale during a casual jam session for Verve in 1959, during which some of the recordings for the album "Side By Side" were made. Verve Acoustic Sounds Series: Stereo, completely analog mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original tapes, QPR pressing (180 g), sturdy tip-on gatefold (Stoughton Printing), padded inner sleeve