Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges: Jeep's Blues

Arrangement: jazz ensemble (JAZZ ENS)
Edition Type: Score and Parts
Publisher: Alfred Publishing
Catalogue Number: 30561
Pages: 38
Date Published: 4th Jul 2008

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Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges: Jeep's Blues - Featuring: Song of India / I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

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Jeep's Blues is one of many blues lines written by Ellington's star alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges. This one was for an Ellington small group recording under Hodges' name in the late 1930's. It's basically just the first 4 bars of the blues and then Hodges improvises the rest of the 12-bar form. Ellington's later big band arrangement is a very simple enlargement of that original 4-horn chart. There are 2 ensemble choruses, 2 solo choruses, 2 sax section choruses ending with a stride piano cadence. The opening is a loud and glorious ensemble; the closing is a soft and introspective sax section.

EAN: 0038081331911
UPC: 038081331911

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