As a footnote to yesterday's post on Johnny Hodges, here's something special, ahead of posting the remaining Portrait tracks from The New Orleans Suite.
This is a hitherto unknown performance of a tune hitherto unknown as being played at all by the Ellington band: China Boy.
Ellington had hoped to be able to hear Johnny Hodges take up his soprano saxophone again fifty years ago tomorrow, 13 May, 1970 in order to record Portrait of Sidney Bechet.
It wasn't to be. Hodges was gone. In its stead, here is a blistering performance by Johnny on the instrument in this air check from The Savory Collection: China Boy. Enjoy.
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