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Johnny Hodges
Person · male · United States · Cambridge · born 1906 · died 1970 · recording since 1950
American alto saxophonist (1907–1970)
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Also known as Hodges · J. Hodges · Jhonny Hodges · Jhony Hodges · John Cornelius Hodges · John Hodges · +5 more
Timeline
38 events▣ Album 35◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1900s
1950s
· Debut release
Debut release: Only Wish I Knew / We Fooled You
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
· Album
Album: All That Jazz, Vol. 111: Sumpin' Jumpin' – Johnny Hodges & The Ellingtonians (Remastered 2019)
Album
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2020s
Biography
English biography1,414 words · 7 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371299071
Biography
John Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years. Hodges was also featured on soprano saxophone, but refused to play soprano after 1940. Along with Benny Carter, Hodges is considered to be one of the definitive alto saxophone players of the big band era.
After beginning his career as a teenager in Boston, Hodges began to travel to New York and played with Lloyd Scott, Sidney Bechet, Luckey Roberts, and Chick Webb. When Ellington wanted to expand his band in 1928, Ellington's clarinet player Barney Bigard recommended Hodges. His playing became one of the identifying voices of the Ellington orchestra. From 1951 to 1955, Hodges left the Duke to lead his own band, but returned shortly before Ellington's triumphant return to prominence – the orchestra's performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956.
Early life
John Cornelius Hodges was born in the Cambridgeport neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John H. Hodges and Katie Swan Hodges, both originally from Virginia. After moving for a short period of time to North Cambridge, the family moved to Hammond Street in the South End of Boston, where he grew up with saxophonists Harry Carney (who would also become a long-term member of Duke Ellington’s big band), Charlie Holmes and Howard E. Johnson. His first instruments were drums and piano. While his mother was a skilled piano player, Hodges was mostly self-taught.
Once he became good enough, he played the piano at dances in private homes for $8 an evening. He had taken up the soprano saxophone by his teens. It was around this time that Hodges developed the nickname "Rabbit", which some people believe arose from his ability to win 100-yard dashes and outrun truant officers, while others, including Carney, said he was called by that name because of his rabbit-like nibbling on lettuce and tomato sandwiches.
When Hodges was 14, he went with his eldest sister to see Sidney Bechet play in Jimmy Cooper's Black and White Revue in a Boston burlesque hall. Hodges's eldest sister introduced him to Bechet, who asked him to play something on the soprano saxophone he had brought with him. Hodges played "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" for Bechet, who was impressed with his skill and encouraged him to keep on playing and would also give Hodges formal saxophone lessons. Hodges built a name for himself in the Boston area before moving to New York City in 1924.
Duke Ellington
Hodges joined Duke Ellington's orchestra in November 1928. He was one of the prominent Ellington Band members who featured in Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. Goodman described Hodges as "by far the greatest man on alto sax that I ever heard." Charlie Parker called him "the Lily Pons of his instrument." John Coltrane considered Hodges his first model on the saxophone, even calling him “the world's greatest saxophone player.”
Ellington's practice of writing tunes specifically for members of his orchestra resulted in the Hodges specialties "Confab with Rab", "Jeep's BluesJeep's BluesSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 24 tracks1Yellow Dog Blues2:542The Mooche3:343The Sheik of Araby3:014Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere2:555Dear Old Southland3:346Moon Glow3:097Harmony in Harlem3:108Blue Goose3:249Warm Valley3:2210Honeysuckle Rose3:0111These 'n' That 'n' Those3:1512I'll Get By3:1213I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good3:2014On the Sunny Side of the Street3:1615Don't Be That Way2:3316Blue Reverie3:1717Jeep's Blues2:5518Hodge Podge2:3619Wanderlust3:0020Tired Socks2:4921Good Queen Bess3:0622That's the Blues Old Man3:0023Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)4:2124Finesse2:43", "Sultry Sunset", and "Hodge Podge". Other songs recorded by the Ellington Orchestra which prominently feature Hodges's smooth alto saxophone sound were "Magenta Haze", "Prelude to a Kiss", and "Haupe", from Anatomy of a Murder – also notable are the "seductive" and hip-swaying "Flirtibird", featuring the "irresistibly salacious tremor" by Hodges, "The Star-Crossed Lovers" from Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder suite, "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)", "Blood Count", and "Passion Flower
Passion FlowerSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Passion Flower (B Strayhorn)4:332St. Louis Blues (WC Handy)5:433Loveless Love (WC Handy)7:034Squeeze Me (Williams, Waller)4:345Theodora (Taylor)3:196Cambridge Blues (J Hodges)3:437Sweet Lorraine (Parish, Burwell)3:148Johnny Come Lately (B Strayhorn)2:259Warm Valley (D Ellington)3:2210Segdoh (J Hodges)3:2611Bouquet of Roses (J Hodges, M Ellington)3:2112Beale Street Blues (WC Handy)7:3413Snibor (B Strayhorn)7:1314Brute's Roots (J Hodges)4:3515Big Shoe (Hamilton)5:33".
He had a pure tone and economy of melody on both the blues and ballads that won him admiration from musicians of all eras and styles, from Ben Webster and John Coltrane, who both played with him when he had his own orchestra in the 1950s, to Lawrence Welk, who featured him in an album of standards. His highly individualistic playing style, which featured the use of a wide vibrato and much sliding between slurred notes, was frequently imitated. As evidenced by the Ellington compositions named after him, he earned the nicknames "Jeep" and "Rabbit" – according to Johnny Griffin because "he looked like a rabbit, no expression on his face while he's playing all this beautiful music."
Saxophones
In the 1940s, Hodges played a Conn 6M (recognizable by its octave-key mechanism being on the underside of the neck) and later on a Buescher 400 (recognizable by its V-shaped bell-brace) alto saxophone. By the end of his career in the late 1960s, Hodges was playing a Vito LeBlanc Rationale alto (serial number 2551A), an instrument with unusual key-mechanisms (providing various alternative fingerings) and tone-hole placement, which gave superior intonation. Fewer than 2,000 were ever made. Hodges's Vito saxophone was silver-plated and extensively engraved on the bell, bow, body and key-cups of the instrument.
Death
Hodges's last performances were at the Imperial Room in Toronto, less than a week before his May 11, 1970, death from a heart attack, suffered during a visit to the office of a dental surgeon. His last recordings are featured on the New Orleans Suite, which was only half-finished when he died. He was married twice; he had a daughter with his first wife, Bertha Pettiford, and a son (John C. Hodges II) and a daughter (Lorna Lee) with his second wife, Edith Cue.
The loss of Hodges's sound prompted Ellington, upon learning of the musician's death from a heart attack, to lament to JET magazine: "The band will never sound the same without Johnny." In Ellington's eulogy of Hodges, he said, "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes—this was Johnny Hodges. This is Johnny Hodges."
As leader or co-leader
1946: Passion Flower (RCA) with Willie Cook, Roy Eldridge, Quentin Jackson, Russell Procope, Ben Webster, Sam Woodyard
1951: Caravan (Prestige) with Taft Jordan, Harold Baker, Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Oscar Pettiford, Sonny Greer
1951–52: Castle Rock (Norgran)
1952: In a Tender Mood (Norgran)
1952–54: The Blues (Norgran)
1951–54: More of Johnny Hodges (Norgran)
1951–54: Memories of Ellington (Norgran), also released as In a Mellow Tone
1954: Used to Be Duke (Norgran)
1952–55: Dance Bash (Norgran), also released as Perdido
1955: Creamy (Norgran)
1956: Ellingtonia '56 (Norgran)
1956: Duke's in Bed (Verve)
1957: The Big Sound (Verve)
1958: Blues A-Plenty (Verve)
1958: Not So Dukish (Verve)
1959: Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin (Verve)
1959: Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues (Verve) with Duke Ellington
1959: Side by Side (Verve) with Duke Ellington
1960: A Smooth One (Verve)
1960: Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (Verve) with Gerry Mulligan
1961: Blue Hodge (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis
1961: Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (Verve)
1961: Johnny Hodges at Sportpalast Berlin (Pablo) with Ray Nance, Lawrence Brown, Al Williams
1962: The Eleventh Hour (Verve) arranged and conducted by Oliver Nelson
1963: Buenos Aires Blues (Johnny Hodges Quintet with Lalo Schifrin on piano)
1963: Sandy's Gone (Verve)
1963: Mess of Blues (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis
1964: Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (Impulse!)
1964: Blue Rabbit (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis
1965: Con-Soul & Sax (RCA Victor) with Wild Bill Davis
1965: Joe's Blues (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis
1965: Wings & Things (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis
1965: Inspired Abandon (Impulse!) with Lawrence Brown
1966: Stride Right (Verve) with Earl Hines
1966: Blue Pyramid (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis
1966: Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges in Atlantic City (RCA Victor) with Wild Bill Davis
1966: Blue Notes (Verve)
1967: Triple Play (RCA Victor)
1967: Don't Sleep in the Subway (Verve)
1967: Swing's Our Thing (Verve) with Earl Hines
1968: Rippin' & Runnin' (Verve)
1970: 3 Shades of Blue (Flying Dutchman) with Leon Thomas and Oliver Nelson
As sideman
Hodges was not a member of Ellington's Orchestra before 1928, or during 1951–55, or after May 11, 1970, when Hodges died. Duke Ellington's earliest recordings date from 1924 and he died on May 24, 1974. The two men's discographies thus match almost exactly, bar exceptions listed above and in this section.
with Lawrence Brown
Inspired Abandon (Impulse!, 1965) – billed as Lawrence Brown's All-Stars with Johnny Hodges
with Coleman Hawkins
Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (Verve, 1962)
with Joya Sherrill
Joya Sherrill Sings Duke (20th Century Fox, 1965)
with Billy Strayhorn
Cue for Saxophone (Felsted, 1959)
with Billy Taylor
Taylor Made Jazz (Argo, 1959)
With Clark Terry
Duke with a Difference (Riverside, 1957)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 23 | 84.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 73 | 96.6th |
| Studio albums | 40 | 98.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 38 | 97.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 20 | 45.6th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (73 release groups · 40 studio albums)
Albums · 40
1955 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 46:21
A1aThe Ballad Medley: Whispering1:46A1bThe Ballad Medley: Tenderly2:23A1cThe Ballad Medley: Don't Take Your Love From Me2:10A1dThe Ballad Medley: But Not for Me2:14A1eThe Ballad Medley: Prelude to a Kiss1:56A1fThe Ballad Medley: Polka Dots and Moonbeams2:24A1gThe Ballad Medley: Passion Flower2:24A2Scufflin'8:11B1Honey Bunny6:36B2Passion3:20B3Pretty Little Girl2:26B4No Use Kicking10:311955 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 38:48
A1Perdido6:25A2Mood Indigo6:19A3Squatty Roo6:48B1Rose Room6:49B2Blues for Basie6:18B3For This Is My Night to Love3:02B4This Love of Mine3:071956 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 31:32
A1In a Mellow Tone6:18A2I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart3:08A3Don't Get Around Much Anymore3:45A4Come Sunday2:32B1I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good3:29B2Sophisticated Lady3:08B3Day Dream3:16B4Solitude2:53B5Good Queen Bess3:03Johnny Hodges and the Ellington All Stars
1956 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks
A1Meet Mr. RabbitA2Duke's in BedA3Just Squeeze MeA4Confab With RabA5Ah Oodie OobieB1Ballade for the Very Sad and Very Tired Lotus EatersB2It Had to Be YouB3Black and Tan FantasyB4Take the "A" Train1956 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 41:22
1A-Oddie-Oobie3:332Meet Mr. Rabbit7:193Duke's in Bed2:544Just Squeeze Me3:075Ballade for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters3:276Confab With Rab3:217It Had to Be You3:108Black and Tan Fantasy6:249Take the "A" Train8:071956 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 41:08
A1Hi 'Ya3:09A2Snibor7:18A3Texas Blues11:56B1Duke's Jam6:26B2Night Walk3:16B3The Happy One2:55B4You Got It Coming6:081959 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 35:00
1Love Is Here to Stay2:452Nice Work If You Can Get It3:133's Wonderful2:514Summertime2:595Soon2:596But Not for Me2:437Somebody Loves Me2:318They Can't Take That Away From Me3:179Someone to Watch Over Me3:1510The Man I Love2:5811Oh, Lady Be Good2:3812They All Laughed2:511961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 47:36
1Don't Call Me, I'll Call You3:282An Ordinary Thing3:203Waiting for Duke3:584Dust Bowl4:265Little Rabbit Blues9:266Johnny Come Lately2:277Gone and Crazy3:148Fast Segdoh3:289Viscount2:3010Bouquet of Roses3:2311Digits4:2212Early Morning Rock3:341962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 30:17
1Something to Live For2:252In a Sentimental Mood3:003I Didn't Know About You2:404Guitar Amour3:355You Blew Out the Flame (In My Heart)2:066Theme from 'The Eleventh Hour'2:177Love Song from 'Mutiny on the Bounty'1:598Solitude2:399Satin Doll2:0110Don't Blame Me2:4911Prelude to a Kiss2:4412Warm Valley2:021963 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 26:16
1Sandy's Gone2:102Monkey Shack2:163Wonderful, Wonderful2:144Scarlett O'Hara2:115Candy's Theme2:136Follow Me1:537Blue Velvet2:188So Much In Love2:229Again1:5610Deep Purple2:2011Since2:2012The Caretakers Theme2:031964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 28:11
1Jones4:312I Cried for You2:563Love You Madly3:454Little John, Little John3:575Stolen Sweets3:046A & R Blues6:447Lost in Meditation3:141964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 33:26
A1Blues O' Mighty4:54A2Fiddler's Fancy2:50A3Tangerine3:17A4Creole Love Call5:45B1Things Ain't What They Used to Be4:15B2Wisteria3:10B3Satin Doll2:28B4I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart2:37B5Mud Pie4:101964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 35:37
A1Everybody Knows7:19A2The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:40A3310 Blues4:31A4Main Stem3:24B1I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart / Don't Get Around Much Anymore4:42B2A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing3:06B3Papa Knows6:48B4Open Mike3:071965 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 36:38
1On the Sunny Side of the Street3:452On Green Dolphin Street3:133Lil' Darlin'4:094Con-Soul and Sax4:515The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:256I'm Beginning to See the Light3:257Sophisticated Lady4:018Drop Me Off in Harlem4:249No One3:1910Johnny Come Lately3:061965 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 37:38
A1Joe's Blues6:03A2I'll Walk Alone4:23A3Harmony in Harlem3:30A4Warm Valley4:27B1Wild Bill Blues5:10B2Somebody Loves Me4:55B3Solitude6:00B4Clementine3:101965 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 35:01
1Wings and Things7:102The Nearness of You3:083Imbo3:524Take the "A" Train4:005Spotted Dog7:206Casanova2:437Dow de Dow Dow Dow3:228Peg O'My Heart3:261966 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 36:42
A1Cool Your Motor4:38A2Jam Blues8:13A3Honey Hill4:14B1Blues A-Plenty3:26B2Not So Dukish7:51B3Preacher Blues8:201966 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 32:54
A1Blues For Madeleine4:48A2Feelin' Kinda Blues2:30A3Pyramid2:10A4Nonchalance4:45A5At Dawn3:00B1The Brown-Skin Gal In The Calico Gown2:35B2Stormy Weather3:56B3Rabbit Out Of The Hat5:10B4Hash Brown4:001967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 30:22
1Don't Sleep in the Subway3:202The Wonder of You2:443Serenade in Blue3:084Everytime She Walks3:475Wisteria2:476Heel Hickin'3:387You've Changed2:518Some Fun3:409Eydie-Dee-Dee4:271969 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 33:52
1Cue Time4:532Rio Segundo3:233Jeep Bounces Back5:504Rippin' and Runnin'4:135Touch Love4:006Tell Everybody's Children8:237Moonflower3:101970 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 33:47
A1Solitude5:05A2You've Changed2:54A3Say It Again3:31A4Sometimes I'm Happy2:48A5In a Sentimental Mood2:57B1Warm Valley4:32B2Wisteria2:52B3Stormy Weather4:00B4One Night in Trinidad2:53B5Theme From "The Eleventh Hour"2:151970 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 41:05
A1Empty Ballroom Blues4:54A2Duke's Place3:35A3Echoes of Harlem4:20A4Disillusion Blues3:56A5Yearning5:20B1Welcome to New York4:10B2Black, Brown and Beautiful3:50B3Rockin' in Rhythm3:09B4Creole Love Call4:56B5It's Glory2:551987 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 46:40
1Take 'em Off, Take 'em Off - Part 13:372Take 'em Off, Take 'em Off - Part 22:593The Nearness of You2:504Monkey on a Limb3:525A Tiny Bit of Blues4:486For Jammers Only (a.k.a. Wild Onions)3:017On the Way Up2:508Big Boy Blues3:199The Very Thought of You2:4710Fur Piece6:2011Sir John3:1912Figurine2:3713C-Jam Blues4:21Compact Jazz: Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis
1989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:10:06
1Blue Hodge6:182Hodge Podge4:073Knuckles5:164Jones3:155I Cried for You6:086A&R Blues3:537Wings and Things7:208Peg o' My Heart3:299Spotted Dog7:5010Blues for Madaleine4:5411Rabbit Out of the Hat5:1712Hash Brown4:0313Harmony in Harlem3:2114Blue O'Mighty4:551990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 47:34
1Just Squeeze Me4:472It's Only A Paper Moon3:003Taffy5:434Good Queen Bess3:235LB Blues5:416In A Mellotone3:527Rockville6:378I'll Always Love You3:519It Don't Mean A Thing5:4410Belle Of The Belmont4:56The Complete 1941-1954 Small Group Sessions Vol. 2 1950
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:05:53
1Jump That's All3:032Last Leg Blues6:003Nix It Mix It3:184Time on My Hands3:165Run About3:036Wishing and Waiting3:217Get That Gee3:168That's Grand3:239Skip It3:2310Mellow Mood3:2011How I Wish I Was Around4:0612I Met a Guy3:4013Tea for Two3:2014Perdido3:0715In the Shade of the Old Apple3:3816Mood Indigo3:4917Sweet Lorraine3:1218Rendezvous at the Hot Club3:0719Hop Skip and Jump2:311995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 24 tracks · 1:15:27
1Yellow Dog Blues2:542The Mooche3:343The Sheik of Araby3:014Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere2:555Dear Old Southland3:346Moon Glow3:097Harmony in Harlem3:108Blue Goose3:249Warm Valley3:2210Honeysuckle Rose3:0111These 'n' That 'n' Those3:1512I'll Get By3:1213I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good3:2014On the Sunny Side of the Street3:1615Don't Be That Way2:3316Blue Reverie3:1717Jeep's Blues2:5518Hodge Podge2:3619Wanderlust3:0020Tired Socks2:4921Good Queen Bess3:0622That's the Blues Old Man3:0023Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)4:2124Finesse2:43Johnny Hodges With Billy Strayhorn And The Orchestra
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 37:03
1Don't Get Around Much Anymore3:042I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)3:383Gal From Joe's2:304Your Love Has Faded3:035I'm Just a Lucky So-And-So3:256Jeep's Blues3:237Day Dream4:008Juice-A-Plenty3:219Azure2:3610Tailor Made3:3811Star Dust4:251998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:07:46
1Flamingo4:352Time On My Hands4:183Night And Day4:244Esquire Swank3:285Day Dream2:586Passion Flower3:097That's The Blues, Old Man2:578A Flower Is A lovesome Thing2:539Frisky2:4910Longhorn Blues2:5211Far Away Blues2:5712Dream Blues3:0213Finesse (Night Wind)2:4214Good Gal Blues2:5815Wanderlust2:4716Krum Elbow Blues2:3517I'm In Another World3:0218Hodge Podge2:3619(I'm Riding On The Moon) And Dancing On The Stars2:5520Savoy Strut2:3121Home Town Blues2:3922Skunk Hollow Blues2:392002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 57:24
1Perdido3:072Last Leg’s Blues, Part 13:043Jump, That’s All3:034Time on My Hands3:175Run About3:026Nix It, Mix It3:177Last Leg’s Blues, Part 22:598Wishing and Waiting3:219Skip It3:2410That’s Grand3:2311Gat That Geet3:1712Mood Indigo3:4813In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree3:3814Bean Bag Boogie3:0615Sweet Lorraine3:1216Hop, Skip and Jump2:2817Sweet Georgia Brown5:582002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 25:16
1Duke's Blues6:102Tea For Two3:033Rosanne3:124Tenderly3:225Blow The Azores3:076Jeep's Blues2:597Whats I'm Gotchere3:23Buenos Aires Blues / The Eleventh Hour
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:07:17
1Mama Knows5:002I'm in Another World2:503Dreary Days3:154I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me4:595B.A. Blues4:386Wanderlust7:217All Too Soon3:238Somebody Loves Me2:489Away from You3:3210Something to Live For2:2211In a Sentimental Mood2:5612I Didn't Know About You2:3713Guitar Amour3:3014You Blew Out the Flame (in My Heart)2:0215Theme from 'The Eleventh Hour'2:1416Love Song from 'Mutiny on the Bounty'1:5617Solitude2:3618Satin Doll1:5819Don't Blame Me2:4520Prelude to a Kiss2:3921Warm Valley1:562018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 38:04
1Perdido2:392Jeep's Blues2:393All of Me1:514C Jam Blues2:185I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)2:106In a Mellow Tone6:597Bye Bye Blackbird2:248Breezin' Along With the Breeze1:559Embraceable You2:1510What Is This Thing Called Love?2:50111 Time on My Hands3:3312Undecided2:5513I'll Make Fun for You3:36All That Jazz, Vol. 111: Sumpin' Jumpin' – Johnny Hodges & The Ellingtonians (Remastered 2019)
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 58:20
1Hop, Skip and Jump2:162Empty Ballroom Blues2:193A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing2:494Frisky2:355Sweet Lorraine2:586Savoy Strut2:257Perdido2:548Carney-val in Rhythm2:389Prelude to a Kiss2:4010I'm in Another World2:5311Night Wind2:5812Last Legs Blues5:5113Sumpin' Jumpin' Around Here2:4814Longhorn Blues2:3815You Walked out of the Picture2:4616In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree3:2717Dancing on the Stars2:4918Cool Gal Blues2:4719After Hours on Dream Street3:0820Far Away Blues2:412021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 58:54
1Take the A Train2:512Blues for Madeleine7:213Mood Indigo2:254(In My) Solitude2:305Satin Doll2:596I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good2:497Rockin in Rhythm4:248Don't Get Around Much Anymore3:509Squeeze Me2:5810Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me2:4211Rose of the Rio Grande2:4212All of Me2:2813On the Sunny Side of the Street4:1214Jeep's Blues4:5015Perdido9:53— · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 39:13
1And Then Some4:002I Wonder Why4:263Azure Te2:554Blue Hodge6:215Hodge Podge4:006It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream2:087Why Are You Blue?2:238Knuckles5:099Stand By Blues4:2710There Is No Greater Love3:24— · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 36:38
1On the Sunny Side of the Street3:452On Green Dolphin Street3:133Lil' Darlin'4:094Con-Soul and Sax4:515The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:256I'm Beginning to See the Light3:257Sophisticated Lady4:018Drop Me Off in Harlem4:249No One3:1910Johnny Come Lately3:06Johnny Hodges Featuring Ben Webster
— · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 40:02
1Cambridge Blue3:432Brute's Roots4:353Bouncing with Ben2:534One for the Duke5:185Walkin' the Frog5:506Rabbit Pie4:547Jeep's Blues2:378Dooji Wooji4:079The Jeep Is Jumpin'6:05— · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:13:28
1Joe's Blues6:032I'll Walk Alone4:233Harmony in Harlem3:304Warm Valley4:275Wild Bill Blues5:106Somebody Loves Me4:557Solitude6:008Clementine3:109Wings And Things7:1610Spotted Dog7:4811Casanova2:4312Dow De Dow Dow Dow3:2413Peg O' My Heart3:2714The Nearness Of You3:1615Imbo3:5716Take The "A" Train3:59Johnny Hodges With the Lawrence Welk's Orchestra
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1Someone to Watch Over Me2:132Misty2:313Fantastic, That's You2:344Stardust2:355I Can't Get Started2:336Haunting Melody2:107When My Baby Smiles at Me2:088Blue Velvet2:139Sophisticated Lady2:4710Canadian Sunset2:3211In a Sentimental Mood2:1712I'm Beginning to See the Light1:51
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| 1950 | Only Wish I Knew / We Fooled YouSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracksAOnly Wish I Knew BWe Fooled You | 1950 |
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| 1957 | Jazz pour tous: Johnny HodgesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 28:341Caravan3:09 2Pelican Drag3:02 3Tapioca2:32 4Minuet in Blues2:53 5Clouds in My Heart3:03 6Swingin On the Campus2:44 7Pyramid2:55 8The Jeeep Is Jumpin2:29 9Jitterbug's Lullaby3:03 10The Rabbit's Jump2:44 | 1 January 1957 | ||
| 1994 | Passion FlowerSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks · 1:09:381Passion Flower (B Strayhorn)4:33 2St. Louis Blues (WC Handy)5:43 3Loveless Love (WC Handy)7:03 4Squeeze Me (Williams, Waller)4:34 5Theodora (Taylor)3:19 6Cambridge Blues (J Hodges)3:43 7Sweet Lorraine (Parish, Burwell)3:14 8Johnny Come Lately (B Strayhorn)2:25 9Warm Valley (D Ellington)3:22 10Segdoh (J Hodges)3:26 11Bouquet of Roses (J Hodges, M Ellington)3:21 12Beale Street Blues (WC Handy)7:34 13Snibor (B Strayhorn)7:13 14Brute's Roots (J Hodges)4:35 15Big Shoe (Hamilton)5:33 | 1994 |
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Previously Unreleased RecordingsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 9 tracks · 37:14A1Mama Knows4:56 A2I'm in Another World2:47 A3Dreary Days3:12 A4I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me4:55 A5B.A. Blues4:35 B1Wanderlust7:17 B2All Too Soon3:19 B3Somebody Loves Me2:45 B4Away From You3:28 | Compilation | 1973 | |
| 1978 | The Rabbit In ParisSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 16 tracks · 51:02A1Jump That's All3:01 A2Last Legs Blues - Part 13:02 A3Last Legs Blues - Part 22:57 A4Nix It, Mix It3:15 A5Time On My Hands3:16 A6Run About3:00 A7Wishing And Waiting3:19 A8Get That Geet3:15 B1That's Grand3:21 B2Skip It3:22 B3Perdido3:05 B4In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree3:37 B5Mood Indigo3:47 B6Sweet Lorraine3:11 B7Bean Bag Boogie (Rendez-vous At The Hot Club)3:07 B8Hop, Skip And Jump2:27 | Compilation | 1978 | |
| 1987 | Master of JazzSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 43:461Cambridge Blue3:45 2Brute's Roots4:39 3Bouncing With Ben2:54 4One for the Duke5:20 5Walkin' The Frog5:52 6Rabbit Pie4:55 7On the Sunny Side of the Street4:22 8Good Queen Bess3:41 9The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:57 10Things Ain't What They Used to Be5:21 | Compilation | 1987 | |
| 1989 | The Complete Johnny Hodges Sessions 1951 - 1955Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 1989 | |
| 1992 | Johnny Hodges and Wild Bill Davis, Volume 1–2 (1965–1966)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 1:19:53Disc 1 1On the Sunny Side of the Street3:51 2On Green Dolphin Street3:18 3Lil’ Darlin’4:14 4Con Soul and Sax4:56 5The Jeep Is Jumpin’2:29 6I’m Beginning to See the Light3:29 7Sophisticated Lady4:06 8Drop Me Off in Harlem4:26 9No One3:24 10Johnny Come Lately3:07 Disc 21It’s Only a Paper Moon3:02 2Taffy5:42 3Good Queen Bess3:22 4L.B. Blues5:39 5In a Mellotone3:48 6Rockville6:35 7I’ll Always Love You3:50 8It Don’t Mean a Thing5:40 9Belle of the Belmont4:55 | Compilation | 1992 | |
| 1992 | CaravanSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 24 tracks · 1:07:141Frisky2:42 2Longhorn Blues2:47 3A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing2:47 4Far Away Blues2:44 5How Could It Happen to a Dream3:00 6Who Struck John?2:49 7June's Jumpin'2:45 8Lotus Blossom3:05 9Violet Blues3:00 10Searsey's Blues2:41 11A Little Taste3:04 12Let the Zoomers Drool2:54 13Night Walk2:41 14Caravan2:55 15Hoppin' John2:40 16She2:55 17Happening2:40 18Sultry Serenade (How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me)2:35 19Alternate2:31 20Jumpin' With Symphony Sid2:35 21Moonlight Fiesta3:26 22Britt and Butter Blues2:24 23Indian Summer2:44 24Swamp Drum2:50 | Compilation | 2 May 1992 | |
| 1993 | At Sportpalast, BerlinSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 21 tracks · 1:37:13Disc 1 1Take the "A" Train2:56 2In the Kitchen7:46 3Mood Indigo / Solitude5:02 4Satin Doll2:49 5I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good3:00 6Rockin’ in Rhythm4:47 7Autumn Leaves4:15 8Stompy Jones12:21 Disc 21"C" Jam Blues4:53 2The Jeep Is Jumpin’2:29 3Good Queen Bess4:17 4Things Ain't What They Used to Be6:31 5I’ll Get By2:50 6I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore4:07 7Just Squeeze Me (But Don’t Tease Me)2:59 8Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me2:55 9Rose of the Rio Grande2:45 10All of Me2:37 11On the Sunny Side of the Street4:26 12Blue Moon2:08 13Perdido11:20 | Live | 31 August 1993 | |
| 1994 | Passion Flower 1940-46Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:09:541Day Dream2:59 2Good Queen Bess (take 1)3:00 3Good Queen Bess (take 2)3:00 4That's the Blues Old Man2:56 5Junior Hop3:06 6Squatty Roo2:24 7Passion Flower3:07 8Things Ain't What They Used to Be3:38 9Going Out the Back Way2:42 10Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)3:18 11Blue Goose3:23 12In a Mellotone3:18 13Warm Valley3:15 14After All3:22 15The Giddybug Gallop3:31 16I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)3:21 17Clementine3:00 18Moon Mist3:00 19Sentimental Lady3:03 20Come Sunday4:31 21Mood to be Woo'd2:59 22Rockabye River (Hop, Skip, Jump)3:01 | Compilation | 1994 | |
| 1994 | An Introduction to Johnny Hodges: His Best Recordings 1928-1941Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:06:501Tishomingo Blues2:57 2The Mooche3:12 3Flaming Youth3:20 4Double Check Stomp3:00 5The Sheik of Araby3:03 6Dear Old Southland3:35 7Sugar Plum3:02 8Blue Reverie2:57 9Fine and Dandy2:38 10Whoa Babe2:54 11On the Sunny Side of the Street3:19 12The Gal From Joe's3:00 13Jeep's Blues2:58 14Hodge Podge2:40 15Dooji Wooji3:02 16Good Gal Blues3:02 17Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)3:20 18Warm Valley3:25 19Day Dream2:59 20Jump for Joy2:53 21Squatty Roo2:26 22Passion Flower3:08 | Compilation | 1994 | |
| 1994 | Verve Jazz Masters 35Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracks · 1:18:081Jeep's Blues2:58 2Castle Rock2:52 3Passion (a.k.a. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing)3:23 4Duke's in Bed2:56 5Little Rabbit Blues9:25 6Early Morning Rock3:39 7Honey Hill4:07 8The Last Time I Saw Paris2:56 9Not So Dukish7:54 10Back Beat7:30 11The Gal From Joe's2:30 12Rosetta3:37 13Don't Sleep in the Subway3:25 14Funky Blues13:30 15Squatty Roo7:26 | Compilation | 8 November 1994 | |
| 1997 | On the Way UpSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 18 tracks · 1:06:141On the Way Up2:57 2Take 'em Off, Take 'em Off3:42 3The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:30 4Monkey on a Limb3:57 5C Jam Blues4:25 6On Green Dolphin Street3:18 7Con Soul and Sax4:56 8For Jammers Only3:06 9No One3:24 10Drop Me Off in Harlem4:27 11Johnny Come Lately3:11 12Big Boy Blues3:24 13Sir John3:23 14A Tiny Bit of Blues4:56 15Li'l Darlin'4:14 16I'm Beginning to See the Light3:29 17Sophisticated Lady4:05 18The Very Thought of You2:50 | Compilation | 1997 | |
| 1998 | Johnny HodgesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 50:161I'm Beginning to See the Light3:28 2In a Mellow Tone3:19 3Passion Flower3:08 4Big Boy Blues3:20 5Things Ain't What They Used to Be3:38 6Snibor4:20 7Sophisticated Lady4:03 8Good Queen Bess3:23 9That's the Blues, Old Man2:57 10Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)3:19 11Come Sunday4:32 12Isfahan4:05 13On the Sunny Side of the Street3:48 14It's Only a Paper Moon2:56 | Compilation | 1998 | |
| 2000 | The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956-61Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 2000 | |
| 2000 | Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis at Grace's Little Belmont, Atlantic CitySearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks · 47:141Just Squeeze Me4:46 2It's Only a Paper Moon2:59 3Taffy5:38 4Good Queen Bess3:22 5L.B. Blues5:40 6In a Mellotone3:47 7Rockville6:36 8I'll Always Love You3:51 9It Don't Mean a Thing5:40 10Belle of the Belmont4:55 | Live | 2000 | |
| 2003 | The Jeep Is Jumpin'Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 22 April 2003 | |
| 2004 | Jazz Ballads 15: Johnny Hodges & FriendsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 35 tracks · 2:10:46Disc 1 1On the Sunny Side of the Street3:16 2Pyramid2:53 3Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)3:18 4Day Dream2:58 5After All3:22 6I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)3:21 7Passion Flower3:07 8Sentimental Lady3:02 9The Mood to Be Wooed2:59 10Rockabye River (Hop, Skip, Jump)3:01 11Time on My Hands3:17 12Wishing and Waiting3:21 13Mood Indigo3:48 14Sweet Lorraine3:14 15My Reward3:10 16Solitude2:54 17Sophisticated Lady3:09 18A Gentle Breeze3:14 19Who's Exited3:03 20Day Dream3:17 Disc 21Willow, Weep for Me3:23 2Just Like a Butterfly3:04 3Black Butterfly3:04 4Mountain Air5:00 5Stardust6:28 6Sophisticated Lady4:11 7Over the Rainbow3:00 8Everything Happens to Me3:08 9What's New3:28 10The Things We Did Last Summer3:19 11These Foolish Things6:32 12Stardust4:31 13Laura3:15 14For All We Know5:52 15Don't Worry 'Bout Me8:47 | Compilation | 11 October 2004 | |
| 2004 | The Complete 1937-1954 Small Group Sessions, Volume 1: 1937-1950Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music | Compilation | 16 November 2004 | |
| 2005 | A Gentle BreezeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:08:531Hodge Podge2:39 2Junior Hop3:12 3Passion Flower3:14 4Things Ain't What They Used to Be3:44 5Hop, Skip and Jump2:33 6Rabbit's Blues (You Blew Out the Flame in My Heart)3:37 7My Reward3:13 8Good Queen Bess3:05 9Jeep's Blues2:59 10Solitude2:56 11The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:50 12Sophisticated Lady3:11 13A Gentle Breeze3:16 14Who's Excited3:06 15I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)3:32 16Through for the Night3:20 17Come Sunday2:35 18In a Mellow Tone6:21 19I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart3:11 20Don't Get Around Much Anymore6:19 | Compilation | 12 July 2005 | |
| 2006 | Johnny HodgesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 1:15:031Don't Get Around Much Anymore3:51 2Passion Flower4:14 3Perdido2:56 4All of Me1:56 5C Jam Blues2:30 6I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good2:24 7In a Mellotone7:10 8Cambridge Blues3:43 9Brute's Roots4:37 10Bouncing With Ben2:52 11One for the Duke5:17 12Walkin' the Frog5:49 13Rabbit Pie4:53 14On the Sunny Side of the Street4:18 15Good Queen Bess3:37 16The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:53 17Things Ain't What They Used to Be5:23 18Jeep's Blues2:35 19Dooji Wooji4:05 | Compilation | 2006 | |
| 2007 | Con-Soul & Jazz: Wild Bill Is The Boss!Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 38 tracks · 2:24:24Disc 1 1-1On the Sunny Side of the Street3:51 1-2On Green Dolphin Street3:18 1-3Lil' Darlin'4:14 1-4Con Soul and Sax4:56 1-5The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:29 1-6I'm Beginning to See the Light3:29 1-7Sophisticated Lady4:06 1-8Drop Me Off in Harlem4:26 1-9No One3:24 1-10Johnny Come Lately3:07 1-11Just Squeeze Me4:47 1-12It's Only a Paper Moon3:00 1-13Taffy5:44 1-14Good Queen Bess3:23 1-15L.B. Blues5:41 1-16In a Mellow Tone3:52 1-17Rockville6:37 Disc 22-1I'll Always Love You3:51 2-2It Don't Mean a Thing5:44 2-3Belle of the Belmont4:57 2-4Blues for Madeleine4:54 2-5When I'm Feeling Kinda Blue2:31 2-6Pyramid2:21 2-7Nonchalance4:46 2-8At Dawn3:11 2-9The Brown-Skin Gal in the Calico Gown2:44 2-10Stormy Weather4:00 2-11Rabbit Out of the Hat5:16 2-12Hash Brown4:01 2-13Blue Notes2:53 2-14Say It Again3:29 2-15I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me3:24 2-16Broad Walk3:38 2-17L.B. Blues4:01 2-18Sandy's Gone2:12 2-19Candy's Theme2:10 2-20The Caretaker's Theme2:04 2-21Again1:53 | Compilation | 2007 | |
| 2010 | Four Classic AlbumsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 41 tracks · 2:38:09Disc 1 1Castle Rock2:54 2The Jeep Is Jumping2:50 3A Gentle Breeze3:15 4Globe Trotter3:06 5Jeep's Blues3:00 6A Pound of Blues3:11 7You Blew Out the Flame in My Heart3:37 8Something to Pat Your Foot To2:54 9Blue Fantasia3:15 10My Rewards3:13 11Sideways3:06 12Wham3:04 13The Jeep Is Jumping (alternate take)2:48 14In a Mellow Tone6:22 15I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart3:11 16Don't Get Around Much Anymore3:49 17Come Sunday2:36 18I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good3:33 19Sophisticated Lady3:11 20Day Dream3:20 21Solitude2:57 22Good Queen Bess3:05 23Perdido6:27 Disc 21Mood Indigo6:24 2Squatty Roo6:52 3Rose Room6:51 4Blues for Basie6:22 5For This Is My Night to Love3:05 6This Love of Mine3:10 7Whispering1:46 8Tenderly2:23 9Don't Take Your Love From Me2:10 10But Not for Me2:15 11Prelude to a Kiss1:58 12Polka Dots and Moonbeans2:24 13Passion Flower2:26 14Scufflin'8:14 15Honey Bunny6:39 16Passion3:24 17Pretty Little Girl2:30 18No Use Kicking10:32 | Compilation | 8 March 2010 | |
| 2010 | And The Ellington Men 1956-1957Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 29 tracks · 2:12:17Disc 1 1Hi' Ya3:11 2Snibor7:16 3Texas Blues11:46 4I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter3:28 5A-Oodie-Oobie3:31 6Meet Mr. Rabbit7:16 7Duke's in Bed2:54 8Just Squeeze Me3:07 9Ballad for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters3:21 10Confab with Rab3:17 11It Had to Be You3:06 12Black and Tan Fantasy6:21 13Take the 'A' Train8:03 Disc 21The Happy One2:51 2Night Walk3:13 3You Got It Coming6:01 4Duke's Jam6:24 5Little Rabbit Blues9:22 6Johnny Comes Lately2:26 7Gone and Crazy3:12 8Fast Segdoh3:26 9Don't Call Me, I'll Call You3:27 10An Ordinary Thing3:19 11Waiting for Duke3:57 12Dust Bowl4:24 13Early Morning Rock3:33 14Viscount2:27 15Digits4:17 16Bouquet of Roses3:21 | Compilation | May 2010 | |
| 2011 | Three Classic Albums Plus (Second Set)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 39 tracks · 2:33:11Disc 1 1Rosanne3:09 2Hodge-Podge3:35 3Jappa3:52 4Through For The Night3:17 5Sheik Of Araby3:14 6Latino2:54 7Johnny's Blues7:02 8Indiana3:51 9Easy Going Bounce3:32 10Burgundy Walk7:08 11Ballad Medley: Autumn In New York / Sweet Lorraine / Time On My Hands / Smoke Gets In Your Eyes / If You Were Mine / Poor Butterfly / All Of Me18:01 12On The Sunny Side Of The Street2:56 13Warm Valley3:21 14Madam Butterfly3:14 15Skokiaan2:32 16Used To Be Duke7:23 Disc 21Who's Excited3:02 2Sweepin' The Blues Away3:18 3Standing Room Only2:46 4Below The Azores3:03 5Sweet Georgia Brown6:00 6Duke's Blues6:05 7Tenderly3:18 8Tea For Two2:59 9What's I'm Gotchere3:23 10Nothin' Yet2:39 11Sweet As Bear Meat3:19 12Love Is Here To Stay2:41 13Nice Work If You Can Get It3:09 14'S Wonderful2:47 15Summertime2:55 16Soon2:55 17But Not For Me2:39 18Somebody Loves Me2:28 19They Can't Take That Away From Me3:13 20Someone To Watch Over Me3:11 21They All Laughed2:50 22The Man I Love2:54 23Oh, Lady Be Good2:36 | Compilation | 2011 | |
| 2012 | The Best of Jazz & SaxSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 10 tracks1I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 2West Indian Pancake 3El Gato 4The Hawk Talks 5Passion Flower 6Ko Ko 7Harlem Airshaft 8The Jeep Is Jumpin 9Greole Love Call 10Blues | Compilation | 23 January 2012 | |
| 2013 | Juice A-PlentySearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 1:07:171Don't Get Around Much Anymore2:58 2I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good3:34 3Gal From Joe's2:25 4Your Love Has Faded2:57 5I'm Just a Lucky So and So3:20 6Jeep's Blues3:17 7Day Dream3:54 8Juice A-Plenty3:17 9Azure2:32 10Tailor Made3:34 11Stardust4:24 12Thing's Ain't What They Used to Be2:47 13Jeep's Blues3:47 14Mr.Gentle and Mr. Cool7:00 15In a Mellow Tone2:34 16All of Me2:28 17Sophisticated Lady3:30 18Passion Flower4:59 19On the Sunny Side of the Street4:00 | Compilation | 2013 | |
| 2018 | Johnny Hodges (1938–1939) – Duke Ellington’s Greatest Small GroupsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 24 tracks · 1:06:151Jeep’s Blues2:53 2Rendezvous With Rhythm2:59 3I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart3:01 4If You Were in My Place2:56 5Empty Ballroom Blues2:27 6Pyramid2:51 7You Walked Out of the Picture2:48 8Lost in Meditation2:41 9Swingin’ in the Dell2:32 10Jitterbug’s Lullaby2:57 11The Jeep Is Jumpin’2:27 12Krum Elbow Blues2:35 13Prelude to a Kiss2:41 14Hodge Podge2:33 15Wanderlust2:57 16Dancing on the Stars2:53 17I’m in Another World3:00 18Swingin’ on the Campus2:38 19Dooji Wooji2:54 20Finesse2:44 21Rent Party Blues2:39 22Savoy Strut2:31 23Good Gal Blues2:59 24Dance of the Goon2:39 | Compilation | 2018 | |
| — | Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny HodgesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 1:14:341Sunny5:47 2What's the Rush3:45 3Back Beat7:29 4What It's All About4:03 518 Carrots for Rabbit5:16 6Shady Side7:05 7What Is There to Say4:08 8Just in Time4:14 9News From Blueport5:07 10Festive Minor6:17 11As Catch Can3:58 12My Funny Valentine4:10 13Blueport8:51 14Utter Chaos4:24 | Compilation | — | |
| — | Hodge Podge (The Best of Duke's Men, Volume 1)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 27 tracks · 1:14:341Jeep's Blues2:55 2Rendez-vous With Rhythm3:00 3Pyramid2:51 4Empty Ballroom Blues2:27 5Swingin' in the Dell2:35 6Jitterbug's Lullaby2:59 7The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:28 8Krum Elbow Blues2:35 9I'm in Another World3:03 10Hodge Podge2:36 11Dancing on the Stars2:55 12Wanderlust3:01 13Swingin' on the Campus2:40 14Dooji Wooji2:57 15Savoy Strut2:34 16Rent Party2:41 17Dance of the Goon2:38 18Good Gal Blues3:00 19Finesse (Night Wind)2:44 20Kitchen Mechanic's Day2:31 21My Heart Jumped Over the Moon2:37 22You Can Count on Me3:16 23Home Town Blues2:40 24The Rabbit's Jump2:40 25Moon Romance2:47 26Truly Wonderful2:21 27Dream Blues3:03 | Compilation | — | |
| — | At A Dance, In A Studio, On RadioSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 15 tracksA1Sideways A2Castle Rock A3In A Mellotone A4I've Got A Mind To Ramble Blues A5Don't Cry Baby Blues A6Globetrotter B1Don't Blame Me B2Back Where? B3In The Stands B4Brass Top B5Go Blues And Go B6Satin Doll B7Passion Flower B8A Train B9Sophisticated Lady | Compilation | — | |
| — | The Jeep Is Jumpin'Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 46 tracks · 2:31:29Disc 1 1Squatty Roo2:26 2Passion Flower3:06 3Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Times A-Wastin')3:36 4Goin' Out The Back Way2:43 5You're Driving Me Crazy2:48 6Who Struck John?2:45 7Violet Blue2:57 8A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing (Passion)3:13 9Frisky2:40 10Lotus Blossom (Charlotte Russe)3:01 11Time On My Hands3:19 12Wishing And Waiting3:22 13Rendez-Vous At The Hot Club (Bean Bag Boogie)3:05 14Sweet Lorraine3:10 15You Blew Out The Flame In My Heart (Jeep's Blues)3:32 16Something To Pat Your Foot To2:50 17My Reward3:08 18Good Queen Bess3:01 19Jeep's Blues2:56 20The Jeep Is Jumpin'2:46 21Solitude2:52 22Castle Rock2:49 23Sophisticated Lady3:08 24Globetrotter3:02 25A Gentle Breeze3:12 Disc 21A Pound Of Blues3:09 2Wham3:00 3Who's Excited?3:02 4Day Dream3:16 5Standing Room Only2:47 6Tenderly3:20 7Tea For Two2:58 8I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good3:28 9Hodge Podge3:34 10Through For The Night3:17 11Come Sunday2:31 12The Sheik Of Araby3:13 13In A Mellow Tone6:15 14I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart3:07 15Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Never No Lament)3:44 16On The Sunny Side Of The Street2:56 17Sweet As Bear Meat3:18 18Warm Valley3:21 19All Of Me3:04 20Mood Indigo6:17 21Perdido6:25 | Compilation | — |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Johnny Hodges head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 23 | 84.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 73 | 96.6th |
| Studio albums | 40 | 98.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 38 | 97.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 20 | 45.6th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jungle Band(band) | — | present | |
| Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra(band) | — | present | eponymous |
| Leonard Feather’s Esquire All‐Americans(band) | — | present | |
| Duke Ellington Octet(band) | — | present | alto saxophone |
| Eddie Heywood Trio(band) | — | present | alto saxophone |
| Duke Ellington and His Orchestra(band) | 1928 | 1951 | |
| Duke Ellington and His Orchestra(band) | 1955 | 11 May 1970 |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnny_Hodges_and_Al_Sears%2C_Aquarium%2C_New_York%2C_ca._Nov._1946_%28William_P._Gottlieb_04191%29.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/881d33d8-e86f-42e8-b571-dbde156f6907discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/881d33d8-e86f-42e8-b571-dbde156f6907core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455176genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455176seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hodgesbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hodges
Why this artist is in the database
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Image: William P. Gottlieb · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q455176 · MusicBrainz: 881d33d8-e86f-42e8-b571-dbde156f6907
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1 shared genre tag · debut 1951, 1 year apart · from United States
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