Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin

Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin
Studio album by Johnny Hodges
Released	June 1962
Recorded	November 18, 1958 Stuttgart, West Germany
Genre	Jazz
Length	34:54
Label	Verve MGV 8314
Johnny Hodges chronology
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Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin is an album by saxophonist Johnny Hodges accompanied by an orchestra performing Gershwin tunes recorded in Stuttgart in 1958 for the Verve label.^[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

The Allmusic review gave the album 3½ stars out of five, commenting "All of these performances, like most of the music in the latter day Johnny Hodges discography, combine the elegant tonal ligatures of swing and cool".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by George and Ira Gershwin except as indicated

1. "Love Is Here to Stay" - 2:44
2. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" - 3:13
3. "'S Wonderful" - 2:51
4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 2:59
5. "Soon" - 2:58
6. "But Not for Me" - 2:43
7. "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald, Buddy DeSylva) - 2:31
8. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" - 3:16
9. "Someone to Watch over Me" - 3:14
10. "The Man I Love" - 2:57
11. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" - 2:38
12. "They All Laughed" - 2:50

Personnel

• Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
• Horst Jankowski - piano
• Unidentified string section arranged by Russ Garcia and conducted by Wolfram Röhrig

References

1. Verve Records Catalog: 8300 series, accessed February 16, 2016
2. Discography of the Verve, Clef and Norgran labels accessed February 16, 2016
3. arwulf, arwulf. Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 16, 2016.