Inspired Abandon
1965 studio album by Lawrence Brown with Johnny Hodges
Inspired Abandon | ||||
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Studio album by Lawrence Brown with Johnny Hodges | ||||
Released | 1965 | |||
Recorded | March 8, 1965 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 31:48 | |||
Label | Impulse! | |||
Lawrence Brown chronology | ||||
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Johnny Hodges chronology | ||||
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Inspired Abandon is an album by American jazz trombonist Lawrence Brown with Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1965 for the Impulse! label.[1] The album was rereleased on CD as bonus tracks on the American CD reissue of Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges.
Reception
The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.[2]
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Track listing
- All compositions by Johnny Hodges except as indicated
- "Stompy Jones" (Duke Ellington) - 3:57
- "Mood Indigo" (Ellington, Barney Bigard) - 4:22
- "Good Queen Bess" - 3:05
- "Little Brother" - 5:14
- "Jeep's Blues" (Ellington, Hodges) - 5:40
- "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Ellington) - 2:33
- "Ruint" (Ellington, Hodges) - 3:18
- "Sassy Cue" - 3:39
- Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 8, 1965
Personnel
- Lawrence Brown – trombone
- Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
- Ray Nance - cornet
- Cat Anderson - trumpet (tracks 1 & 3-8)
- Buster Cooper - trombone (tracks 1 & 3-8)
- Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet (tracks 1 & 3-8)
- Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet
- Harold Ashby, Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 3-8)
- Jimmy Jones - piano
- Richard Davis – bass
- Gus Johnson (tracks 1, 3 & 5-8), Johnny Hodges Jr. (tracks 2 & 4) – drums
References
- ^ Impulse! Records discography accessed March 24, 2011
- ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed March 24, 2011
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
leader or
co-leader
- Castle Rock (1951–52)
- In a Tender Mood (1951–52)
- The Blues (1952–54)
- Used to Be Duke (1954)
- Creamy (1955)
- Duke's in Bed (1956)
- Ellingtonia '56 (1956)
- The Big Sound (1957)
- Blues A-Plenty (1958)
- Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin (1958)
- Not So Dukish (1958)
- Side by Side (and Duke Ellington, 1958–59)
- Back to Back (and Duke Ellington, 1959)
- Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges (1959)
- Blue Hodge (1961)
- Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (1961)
- Blue Rabbit (and Wild Bill Davis, 1963–64)
- Sandy's Gone (1963)
- Mess of Blues (and Wild Bill Davis, 1963)
- Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (1964–65)
- Blue Pyramid (and Wild Bill Davis, 1965–66)
- Con-Soul & Sax (1965–66)
- Inspired Abandon (and Lawrence Brown, 1965)
- Joe's Blues (and Wild Bill Davis, 1965)
- Wings & Things (nd Wild Bill Davis, 1965)
- Blue Notes (1966)
- Stride Right (and Earl Hines, 1966)
- Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges in Atlantic City (1966)
- Don't Sleep in the Subway (1967)
- Swing's Our Thing (and Earl Hines, 1967)
- Triple Play (1967)
- Rippin' & Runnin' (1968)
- 3 Shades of Blue (1970)
others
- Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (and Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge, 1962)
- Joya Sherrill Sings Duke (Joya Sherrill, 1965)
- Cue for Saxophone (Billy Strayhorn, 1959)
- Taylor Made Jazz (Billy Taylor, 1959)
- Duke with a Difference (Clark Terry, 1957)