DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) NILE MARR Alphaville” and the “Forever Young

Alphaville” and the “Forever Young – Super Deluxe Edition”

minimising some of the chaotic noise elements of their signature sound and bringing to the fore impassioned

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electronic direction

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DUKE ELLINGTON AND JOHNNY HODGES - Side By Side (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) NILE MARR Alphaville” and the “Forever YoungLP 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,