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Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues 1959
- jazz
- 47 min
- 7 tracks
- Verve
Back to Back is a 1959 studio album by Johnny Hodges and Duke Ellington. It was followed by Side by Side (1959), which combines three tracks recorded at one of the same sessions with six tracks recorded in August 1958 by a different, Hodges-led group that did not include Ellington.
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Classical in form, grave, character-led and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- A1Wabash Blues6:14
- A2Basin Street Blues8:03
- A3Beale Street Blues7:35
- B1Weary Blues6:55
- B2St. Louis Blues5:47
- B3Loveless Love7:10
- B4Royal Garden Blues5:23
7 tracks, 47 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges
- Label
- Verve
- Released
- 1959
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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