Used to Be Duke

Used to Be Duke
Studio album by Johnny Hodges
Released 1954
Recorded 1954
Genre Jazz
Length 38:21
Label Norgran - MGM 1060
Producer Norman Granz
Johnny Hodges chronology
The Blues
(1954)
Used to Be Duke
(1954)
Dance Bash
(1952-55)

Used to Be Duke is a 1954 studio album by Johnny Hodges accompanied by several members of Duke Ellington's orchestra.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Scott Yanow on AllMusic gave the album four stars out of five, commenting "Hodges had a particularly strong group. High points include "On the Sunny Side of the Street," the title track and a seven-song ballad medley."[1]

Track listing

  1. "Used to Be Duke" (Johnny Hodges) - 7:24
  2. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:59
  3. "Sweet as Bear Meat" (Hodges) - 3:22
  4. "Madam Butterfly" (Jimmy Hamilton, Hodges) - 3:17
  5. "Warm Valley" (Duke Ellington) - 3:24
  6. Ballad medley: "Autumn In New York"/"Sweet Lorraine"/"Time On My Hands"/"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"/"If You Were Mine"/"Poor Butterfly" (Vernon Duke)/(Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish)/(Vincent Youmans, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon)/(Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)/(Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer)/(Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) - 17:55

Personnel

References

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