Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American

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, best known for solo work with

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based ...

's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years. Hodges was also featured on

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, but refused to play soprano after 1946. Along with

Benny Carter Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career ...

, Hodges is considered to be one of the definitive alto saxophone players of the

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. After beginning his career as a teenager in Boston, Hodges began to travel to New York and played with

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and

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. When Ellington wanted to expand his band in 1928, Ellington's clarinet player Barney Bigard recommended Hodges. His playing became one of the identifying voices of the Ellington orchestra. From 1951 to 1955, Hodges left the Duke to lead his own band, but returned shortly before Ellington's triumphant return to prominence – the orchestra's performance at the 1956

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Biography

Early life

Hodges was born in the Cambridgeport neighborhood of

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, to John H. Hodges and Katie Swan Hodges, both originally from

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. After moving for a short period of time to North Cambridge, the family moved to Hammond Street in the South End of

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, where he grew up with saxophonists Harry Carney (who would also become a long-term member of Duke Ellington’s big band),

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and Howard E. Johnson. His first instruments were drums and piano. While his mother was a skilled piano player, Hodges was mostly

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. Once he became good enough, he played the piano at dances in private homes for $8 an evening. He had taken up the

by his teens. It was around this time that Hodges developed the nickname "Rabbit", which some people believe arose from his ability to win 100-yard dashes and outrun truant officers, while others, including Carney, said he was called by that name because of his rabbit-like nibbling on lettuce and tomato sandwiches. When Hodges was 14, he went with his eldest sister to see

play in Jimmy Cooper's ''Black and White Revue'' in a Boston burlesque hall. Hodges's eldest sister introduced him to Bechet, who asked him to play something on the soprano saxophone he had brought with him. Hodges played "My Honey's Lovin' Arms" for Bechet, who was impressed with his skill and encouraged him to keep on playing and would also give Hodges formal saxophone lessons. Hodges built a name for himself in the Boston area before moving to

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in 1924.

Duke Ellington

Hodges joined Duke Ellington's orchestra in November 1928. He was one of the prominent Ellington Band members who featured in

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's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. Goodman described Hodges as "by far the greatest man on alto sax that I ever heard."

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called him "the

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of his instrument."

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considered Hodges his first model on the saxophone, even calling him “the world's greatest saxophone player.” Johnny Hodges edit

Ellington's practice of writing tunes specifically for members of his orchestra resulted in the Hodges specialties, "Confab with Rab", "Jeep's Blues", "Sultry Sunset", and "Hodge Podge". Other songs recorded by the Ellington Orchestra which prominently feature Hodges's smooth alto saxophone sound are "Magenta Haze", " Prelude to a Kiss", "Haupe" (from ''

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'') – also notable are the "seductive" and hip-swaying "Flirtibird", featuring the "irresistibly salacious tremor" by Hodges, "The Star-Crossed Lovers" from Ellington's '' Such Sweet Thunder'' suite, "

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", "

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" and "Passion Flower". He had a pure tone and economy of melody on both the

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and

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that won him admiration from musicians of all eras and styles, from

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and

, who both played with him when he had his own orchestra in the 1950s, to

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, who featured him in an album of standards. His highly individualistic playing style, which featured the use of a wide

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and much sliding between slurred notes, was frequently imitated. As evidenced by the Ellington compositions named after him, he earned the nicknames ''Jeep'' and ''Rabbit'' – according to

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because "he looked like a rabbit, no expression on his face while he's playing all this beautiful music."

Saxophones

In the 1940s, Hodges played a Conn 6M (recognizable by its octave-key mechanism being on the underside of the neck) and later on a Buescher 400 (recognizable by its V-shaped bell-brace) alto saxophone. By the end of his career in the late 1960s, Hodges was playing a Vito LeBlanc Rationale alto (serial number 2551A), an instrument with unusual key-mechanisms (providing various alternative fingerings) and tone-hole placement, which gave superior intonation. Fewer than 2,000 were ever made. Hodges's Vito saxophone was silver-plated and extensively engraved on the bell, bow, body and key-cups of the instrument.

Death

Hodges's last performances were at the

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in Toronto, less than a week before his May 11, 1970 death from a

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, suffered during a visit to the office of a dental surgeon. His last recordings are featured on the '' New Orleans Suite'', which was only half-finished when he died. He was married twice; he had a daughter by his first wife, Bertha Pettiford, and a son (John C. Hodges II) and a daughter (Lorna Lee) by his second wife, Edith Cue. The loss of Hodges's sound prompted Ellington, upon learning of the musician's death from a heart attack, to lament to '' JET'' magazine: "The band will never sound the same without Johnny." In Ellington's eulogy of Hodges, he said: "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes—this was Johnny Hodges. This ''is'' Johnny Hodges."

Discography

As leader or co-leader

* 1946: ''Passion Flower'' (RCA) with

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* 1951: ''Caravan'' (

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) with

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, Harold Baker,

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* 1951-52: '' Castle Rock'' ( Norgran) * 1952: ''

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'' (Norgran) * 1952-54: ''

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'' (Norgran) * 1951-54: ''More of Johnny Hodges'' (Norgran) * 1951-54: ''Memories of Ellington'' (Norgran) also released as ''In a Mellow Tone'' * 1954: '' Used to Be Duke'' (Norgran) * 1952–55: ''

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'' (Norgran) also released as ''Perdido'' * 1955: ''

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'' (Norgran) * 1956: ''

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'' (

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) * 1957: '' The Big Sound'' (Verve) * 1958: ''

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'' (Verve) * 1958: '' Not So Dukish'' (Verve) * 1959: '' Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin'' (Verve) * 1959: '' Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues'' (Verve) with

* 1959: '' Side by Side'' (Verve) with Duke Ellington * 1960: '' A Smooth One'' (Verve) * 1960: ''

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'' (Verve) with

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* 1961: ''

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'' (Verve) with

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* 1961: ''

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'' (Verve) * 1961: ''Johnny Hodges at Sportpalast Berlin'' (

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) with

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, Lawrence Brown, Al Williams * 1963: ''Buenos Aires Blues'' (Johnny Hodges Quintet with

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on piano) * 1963: ''

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'' (Verve) * 1963: '' Mess of Blues'' (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis * 1964: '' Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges'' (

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) * 1964: ''

Blue Rabbit ''Blue Rabbit'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges and organist Wild Bill Davis featuring performances recorded in 1963 and 1964 and released on the Verve label.

'' (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis * 1965: '' Con-Soul & Sax'' (

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) with Wild Bill Davis * 1965: '' Joe's Blues'' (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis * 1965: '' Wings & Things'' (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis * 1965: ''

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'' (Impulse!) with Lawrence Brown * 1966: '' Stride Right'' (Verve) with

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* 1966: '' Blue Pyramid'' (Verve) with Wild Bill Davis * 1966: ''

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'' (RCA Victor) with Wild Bill Davis * 1966: ''

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'' (Verve) * 1967: ''

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'' (RCA Victor) * 1967: ''

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'' (Verve) * 1967: '' Swing's Our Thing'' (Verve) with Earl Hines * 1968: '' Rippin' & Runnin''' (Verve) * 1970: '' 3 Shades of Blue'' (

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) with

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and

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As sideman

:''Hodges was not a member of Ellington's Orchestra before 1928, or during 1951–55, or after May 11, 1970, when Hodges died. Duke Ellington's earliest recordings date from 1924 and he died on May 24, 1974. The two men's discographies thus match almost exactly, bar exceptions listed above and in this section.'' with Lawrence Brown * ''

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*''

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'' (Verve, 1962) with

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*''

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'' (20th Century Fox, 1965) with

* '' Cue for Saxophone'' (

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, 1959) with

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* ''

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'' (

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, 1959) With

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*'' Duke with a Difference'' (

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, 1957)

References

External links

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