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Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra
Band,
Jazz
After 23 years with Duke Ellington's Orchestra, saxophonist Johnny Cornelius Hodges started his own band in March 1951. The band lasted until September 1955, when Johnny Hodges returned to his place as leader of the Duke's reed section and participated in one of the many revivals of the history of the best big bands in the history of jazz.
Members
 | John Coltrane ts 1926-1967 US |
 | Duke Ellington p 1899-1974 US |
 | Johnny Williams b 1908-1998 US |
 | Quentin Jackson tb 1909-1976 US |
 | Ray Brown b 1926-2002 US |
 | Don Byas ts 1912-1972 US |
 | Ben Webster ts 1909-1973 US |
 | Jimmy Woode b 1926-2005 US |
 | Roy Eldridge tr 1911-1989 US |
 | Johnny Hodges as, sax 1906-1970 US |
 | Vic Dickenson tb 1906-1984 US |
 | Billy Strayhorn p 1915-1967 US |
 | Sam Woodyard dr 1935-1988 US |
 | Cootie Williams tr 1911-1985 US |
 | Lawrence Brown tb 1907-1988 US |
 | Richie Powell p 1931-1956 US |
 | Wendell Marshall b 1920-2002 US |
 | Flip Phillips ts, sax 1915-2001 US |
 | Joe Marshall dr US |
 | Harry Carney sax, bs 1910-1974 US |
 | Ray Nance tr, vn 1913-1976 US |
 | Sonny Greer dr 1895-1982 US |
 | Harold Baker tr 1914-1966 US |
 | Al Sears sax, ts 1910-1990 US |
 | Jimmy Hamilton sax, cl, ts 1917-1994 US |
 | Billy Taylor Sr. b 1906-1986 US |
 | Emmett Berry tr 1915-1993 US |
 | J.C. Heard dr 1917-1988 US |
 | Jimmy Blanton b 1918-1942 US |
 | Louis Bellson dr 1924-2009 IT |
| Babe Clark bs, cl US |
 | Call Cobbs p, hps 1911-1971 US |
 | Lloyd Trotman b 1923-2007 US |
| Arthur Clarke bs |
 | Leroy Lovett p 1919-2013 US |
| Raymond Fal p |
Band Membership
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prelude To A Kiss | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 2014 | Single |
| Perdido | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 2011 | Single |
| Here's Johnny Hodges | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 2001 | Single |
| Jeep's Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1995 | Single |
| The Rabbit's Work On Verve - Vol. 1 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1981 | Compil. |
| The Rabbit's Work On Verve - Vol. 3 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1981 | Compil. |
| The Rabbit's Work On Verve Vol. 5 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1981 | Compil. |
| The Rabbit's Work On Verve - Vol. 2 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1980 | Compil. |
| Duke Ellington And His Orchestra & Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1978 | Album |
| More Of Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra, Album # 3 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1970 | Single |
| Hodge Podge | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra Featuring Duke Ellington, Lawrence Brown & Cootie Williams | 1968 | Compil. |
| Hodge Podge | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra Featuring Duke Ellington, Lawrence Brown & Cootie Williams | 1968 | Compil. |
| The "Rabbit" | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1964 | Single |
| The Rabbit | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1962 | Album |
| Hodges Et Cie | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1960 | Album |
| Not So Dukish | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1958 | Album |
| Perdido | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1957 | Album |
| Ellington Sidekicks | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra, Rex Stewart And His Orchestra, Barney Bigard And His Orchestra & Cootie Williams & His Rug Cutters | 1956 | Compil. |
| In A Tender Mood | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1956 | Album |
| Used To Be Duke | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1956 | Album |
| Things Ain't What They Used To Be / Passion Flower | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1956 | Single |
| I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart / Don't Get Around Much Anymore | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1955 | Album |
| Castle Rock | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1955 | Album |
| The Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1955 | Compil. |
| On The Sunny Side Of The Street / All Of Me | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1955 | Single |
| More Of Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra Album #2 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1954 | Single |
| Used To Be Duke | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1954 | Single |
| Going Out The Back Way / Junior Hop / Queen Bess / Squaty Roo | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1954 | Single |
| Burgundy Walk | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1954 | Album |
| More Of Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1954 | Album |
| Sweet As Bear Meat / Skokiaan | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1954 | Album |
| Squaty Roo / Things Ain't What They Used To Be | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1954 | Album |
| Pop Series | Al Hibbler And Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1953 | Single |
| Johnny's Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
| Sheik of Araby / Jappa | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
| Wham! / Come Sunday | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
| Through For The Night / Latino | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
| Sideways / A Pound Of Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1952 | Album |
| Who's Excited / Below The Azores | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1952 | Album |
| Duke's Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1952 | Album |
| Please / Believe It Beloved | Al Hibbler And Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1952 | Album |
| Tenderly / What's I'm Gotchere | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1952 | Album |
| Rabbit's Blues / Something To Pat Your Foot To | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| Globetrotter / Gentle Breeze | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| Volume Two | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| Johnny Hodges, Vol. 1 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| Tired Socks / Jeep Is Jumpin' | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| Jeep's Blues / Castle Rock | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| You Blew Out The Flame In My Heart / Globetrotter | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1951 | Album |
| Wishing And Waiting / Skip It | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
| Mood Indigo / Rendz-Vous At The Hot Club | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
| Perdido / Shade Of The Old Apple Tree | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
| Sweet Lorraine / Hop, Skip And Jump | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
| I'm In Another World / Dancing To The Stars | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
| Last Legs Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
| Mercer Records Proudly Presents | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
| The Jeep Is Jumpin' / Hodge-Podge | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1949 | Album |
| Lost In Meditation / A Blues Serenade | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1949 | Album |
| Pyramid / Empty Ballroom Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1948 | Album |
| Going Out The Back Way / Chelsea Bridge | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra / Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | 1947 | Album |
| A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing / Longhorn Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1947 | Album |
| Far Away Blues / Frisky | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1947 | Album |
| Going Out The Back Way / Johnny Come Lately | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra / Duke Ellington And His Orchestra | 1945 | Album |
| Passion Flower / Going Out The Back Way | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1944 | Album |
| Day Dream / Junior Hop | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1941 | Album |
| That's The Blues Old Man / Good Queen Bess | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1941 | Album |
| Moon Romance / Your Love Has Faded | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1940 | Album |
| Skunk Hollow Blues / Tired Socks | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1940 | Album |
| I Know What You Do / Dream Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1940 | Album |
| Dance Of The Goon / Home Town Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1939 | Album |
| Kitchen Mechanic's Day / You Can Count On Me | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1939 | Album |
| Like A Ship In The Night / Swingin' On The Campus | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1939 | Album |
| Truly Wonderful / My Heart Jumped Over The Moon | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1939 | Album |
| Rent Party Blues / The Rabbit's Jump | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1939 | Album |
| Mississippi Dreamboat / Dooji Wooji | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1939 | Album |
| Good Gal Blues / Savoy Strut | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1939 | Album |
| I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart / If You Were In My Place | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| There's Something About An Old Love / Krum Elbow Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| Love In Swingtime / Swingin' In The Dell | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| A Blues Serenade / Jitterbug's Lullaby | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| Rendezvous With Rhythm / Jeep's Blues | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| Empty Ballroom Blues / You Walked Out Of The Picture | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| Wanderlust / Hodge Podge | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| Prelude To A Kiss / The Jeep Is Jumpin' | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| I'm In Another World / Dancing On The Stars | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1938 | Album |
| Manhattan Jam / A Sailboat In The Moonlight | Edgar Hayes And His Orchestra / Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | 1937 | Album |
| Album Vogue N°2 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Things Ain't What They Used To Be / That's The Blues Old Man | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Single | |
| Play The Prettiest Greshwin | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Wham! / Come Sunday | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Ellingtonia | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra, The Coronets | Album | |
| Globetrotter | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Triple Play / Why i Was Born | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Tea For Two / Rosanne | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Castle Rock / Don't Call Me, I'll Call You | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Single | |
| Good Queen Bess / The Jeep Is Jumping | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Single | |
| I'm In Another World - Dancing In The Stars - Like A Ship In The Night - Swingin' On The Campus | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Single | |
| It's Over Because We're Through / Going Out The Back Way | Willie Bryant And His Orchestra, Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Easy Going Bounce / Indiana | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Single | |
| More Of Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra # 1 | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Single | |
| Untitled | Duke Ellington And His Orchestra / Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Compil. | |
| Who's Excited / Sweepin' The Blues Away | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album | |
| Tenderly / What's I'm Gotchere | Johnny Hodges And His Orchestra | Album |
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