DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) MCLAUGHLIN / MEOLA / LUCIA daringly expanded the boundaries of

daringly expanded the boundaries of contemporary music and popular culture

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

LP - Limited Mystery Colour Vinyl

This collection features previously unreleased concert recordings from the 1972 shows in Stockholm

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

DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) MCLAUGHLIN / MEOLA / LUCIA daringly expanded the boundaries ofLP 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,