Joe's Blues (Johnny Hodges and Wild Bill Davis album)

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Joe's Blues
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Released1965
RecordedJanuary 6 & 7, 1965
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length36:38
Label Verve V/V6 8617
Producer Creed Taylor
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Joe's Blues is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges and organist Wild Bill Davis featuring performances recorded in 1965 and released on the Verve label. [1] [2]

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Reception

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The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars. [3]

Track listing

  1. "Joe's Blues" (Wild Bill Davis) - 6:03
  2. "I'll Walk Alone" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 4:23
  3. "Harmony in Harlem" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Johnny Hodges) - 3:30
  4. "Warm Valley" (Ellington) - 4:27
  5. "Wild Bill Blues" (Hodges) - 5:10
  6. "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald, Buddy DeSylva) - 4:55
  7. "Solitude" (Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills) - 6:00
  8. "Clementine" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:10

Personnel

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References

  1. Verve Records Catalog: 8600 series accessed February 17, 2016
  2. Discography of the Verve, Clef and Norgran labels accessed February 17, 2016
  3. 1 2 Joe's Blues – Listing at AllMusic . Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  4. Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (30 September 1965). "Johnny Hodges; Wild Bill Davis: Joe's Blues" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 238. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 18 August 2022.