Day Dream 🎷 Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges + Jo Stafford & Johnny Hodges 🎷 Italian radio commentary

Описание: Day Dream 🎷 Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges + Jo Stafford & Johnny Hodges 🎷 Italian radio commentary.
00:00 - Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
02:49 - Jo Stafford & Johnny Hodges
06:55 - 60’s Italian radio commentary
ITA ➡ Un’altra gemma che ricompare dalle nebbie del passato!
Ho casualmente ritrovato una mia vecchia registrazione audio (di circa 60 anni fa), in cui viene eseguita la spledida song ‘Day Dream’ prima da Duke Ellington, col dolcissimo suono del sax di Johnny Hodges, e poi dalla brava Jo Stafford (ancora con Hodges al sax), con un interessante commento finale della presentatrice radiofonica dell’epoca. Un bel ricordo, veramente!
Spero che piaccia anche a voi … Buon ascolto!
ENG ➡ Another gem that reappears from the fogs of the past!
I've accidentally discovered an old my audio recording of about 60 years ago, in which the splendid song 'Day Dream' is performed first by Duke Ellington, with the sweet sound of Johnny Hodges's saxophone, and then by the fine Jo Stafford (again with Hodges at sax), with an interesting final comment by the Italian radio presenter of the time.
A nice pleasant memory!
I hope you like it too ... Enjoy!

🎷 "Day Dream" is a 1941 song composed by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington, with lyrics by John La Touche.
Saxophonist Johnny Hodges first recorded this tune with Strayhorn on the piano in 1941.

🎷 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.
Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Although widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.
Some of the musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered to be among the best players in jazz.
🎷 John Cornelius Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years, except the period between 1932 and 1946 when Otto Hardwick generally played first chair. Hodges was also featured on soprano saxophone but refused to play soprano after 1946, when he was given the lead chair. He is considered one of the definitive alto saxophone players of the big band era (alongside Benny Carter).
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 Newport Jazz Festival.
Hodges joined Duke Ellington's orchestra in November 1928. He was one of the prominent Ellington Band members who featured in Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. Goodman described Hodges as "by far the greatest man on alto sax that I ever heard." Charlie Parker called him "the Lily Pons of his instrument."
🎷 Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist.
The record first appeared on U.S. charts on August 1, 1952, and remained there for 24 weeks. In the U.K., it entered the charts on November 14, 1952, at number 12, reached number one on January 16, 1953, and stayed on the charts for 19 weeks.
Jo + Jazz is a 1960 album recorded by Jo Stafford on Columbia Records. The album was also re-released in 1993 by Corinthian Records.

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