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Different Trains and Music for 18 Musicians

while maintaining an air of spontaneity and experimentation across the set

Sweeping and string-laden

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Side By Side Curren$y September 2003)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, is a throwback to the small group sessions Ellington recorded with Hodges and other members of his orchestra in the Thirties, but with a