Thank you ! Johnny Hodges is my Father. He met my Mother in Washington DC. My birth certificate ssys Father unknown. My Father were married to someone else. He had to keep a secret. So his wife would not know I'm his son

God damn , how old are you

Yes, I‘m sad about it too….

BILLY STRAYHORN was quoted as saying the same thing.

Wow, nice catch, I always knew the tension between them, but never caught it in all the shows I've watched. Sort of sad to see really, especially the best band known for their polish and professionalism.

Wow, nice catch, I've always heard of the tension between them but never saw that in all the shows I've watched. Sad to see really, especially for the best band know for their polish and professionalism.

@@brotzmannsax Wouldn't say it's sad. Hodges had a good, long-lasting and steady paying career with Ellington. The Duke put much of the royalties he got through his compositions into the band to have them play day by day and night by night, even when big bands were more or less out of fashion. An unhappy Johnny Hodges would not have stayed 1928 to 1970, apart a few years trying to be a bandleader himself. And imagine you are working for a boss who features you in his own compositions as Prelude to a Kiss, Star-Crossed Lovers, Day Dream, I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good), Isfahan and so many more. Hodges and the Duke were a match made in heaven, and them knew it.

And then he smiled, or at least what passes for a smile from Hodges.

@@brotherrabbit8539 Are you really Brother Hodges, Son of Johnny???? What an Honor!!!!!

I was born in 39 but as I grew up my favourit was Charlie Parker, First later I discovered Johnny Hodgers and to dayI love his music and his wondefully sound

Live was almost surreal to see Duke and the orchestra in concert. Just perfection.

Timeless! that's the word

I thought Johnny Hodges was born in 1906 and died in 1970 at or above 64yrs. young. Thanks for the information. He IS smooth, cool and calm. Johnny HAS HAD a swift staccato 👅. This IS JAZZ; this IS SMOOTH; this is the true essence of the phrase "Smooth Jazz". Lohvissimo.

@@wyndhleodumegwu253 lol Willy is wrong? He was definitely born in 1906

@@keananok Thanks for the affirmation

à moi c'est la même chose. Les deux Giants sont patfaits.

Well yeah... :) I mean who needs all the B.S. of a lot of pointless notes (that are mostly dissonances) out of nowhere, which I swear a lot of people use only to show other people that they know what they are or let everyone know they studied music in some chord factory and can do it, but have no idea WHEN to use any of it or HOW, which is RIGHT for the moment. And the same goes for a lot of writers, perhaps even moreso. Jazz is far more sophisticated than just using any note you want just because you supposedly can ...because some teacher or textbook says a particular note is "usable" on a D7(b9) chord.

Absolutely disagree, Johnny Hodges had nothing to do with "cool school" he was the alto giant with Benny Carter 20 years before the cool movement came ! His warm sound and his vibrato, like Ben Webster, another Duke's man has nothing to see with cool movement...

@@SELMER1947 You misunderstood my statement. I mean in terms of sound. He came before the cool school. This I know. His mentor was Sidney Bechet.

@@charlesbarry2485 Even in terms of sound, cool school had no vibrato, no inflexions, no glissando, no sense of blues like Hodges and Bechet had... Guys like Desmond, Mulligan, Getz, Sims, Pepper etc...had nothing in common with Bechet !

@@SELMER1947 the others are their sons with, in between, the bird who changed the rules, then post bop would be patronized by lester young and cool came on the stage

@SELMER B.Action Getz was most definitely a deciple of Lester Young. A New Yorker BTW.

For you also the best X

Hodges - July 25, 1907 - May 11, 1970 was just shy of his 63 birthday. I saw Dukes band in 1971 without Hodges obviously, but it was still one of the best musical experiences of my life. It was Hodges's playing that inspired me to take up the alto sax at 14, I'm still playing today 53 years later.

The same note was being played by the orchestra In harmony

That's how good he is LMAOOO

How strange, was just thinking the same as I watched!