Johnny Hodges - Jeep Is Jumpin'

The Johnny Hodges saxophone sound was one of the landmarks of jazz, rich, full and singing, sometimes soft and sensuous and at other times brusque and sinewy, but it was always unmistakably his own. Here is an extensive survey of this master's oeuvre, leading his small-bands. 94 tracks are included within the 4 CD's and the timescale covers 1937 through to 1952. The 44 page booklet tells the story.

1) Foolin' Myself
2) Sailboat in the Moonlight
3) You'll Never Go to Heaven
4) Peckin'
5) My Day
6) Slivery Moon and Golden Sands
7) Jeep's Blues
8) If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)
9) I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
10) Rendezvous with Rhythm
11) You Walked Out of the Picture
12) Pyramid
13) Empty Ballroom Blues
14) Lost in Meditation
15) Blues Serenade
16) Love in Swingtime
17) Swingin' in the Dell
18) Jitterbug's Lullaby
19) Prelude to a Kiss
20) There's Something About An Old Love
21) Old Jeep Is Jumpin'
22) Krum Elbow Blues
23) I'm in Another World
24) Hodge Podge
25) Dancing on the Stars
26) Wanderlust
27) Like a Ship in the Night
28) Mississippi Dreamboat
29) Swingin' on the Campus
30) Dooji Wooji
31) Savoy Strut
32) Rent Party Blues
33) Good Gal Blues
34) Finesse
35) Home Town Blues
36) Dream Blues
37) Skunk Hollow Blues
38) I Know What You Do
39) Your Love Has Faded
40) Tired Socks
41) Good Queen Bess
42) That's the Blues Old Man
43) Junior Hop
44) Squatty Roo
45) Passion Flower
46) Things Ain't What They Used to Be
47) Goin' Out the Back Way
48) You're Driving Me Crazy
49) Who Struck John?
50) It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream
51) June's Jumpin'
52) Violet Blue
53) Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
54) Frisky
55) Longhorn Blues
56) Far Away Blues
57) Searsy's Blues
58) Little Taste
59) Let the Zoomers Drool
60) Charlotte Russe (Lotus Blossom)
61) Jump That's All
62) Last Legs Blues Pt. 1
63) Last Legs Blues Pt. 2
64) Nix It Mix It
65) Time on My Hands
66) Get That Geet
67) That's Grand
68) Skip It
69) Perdido
70) In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
71) Mood Indigo
72) Sweet Lorraine
73) Bean Bag Boogie
74) Hop Skip and Jump
75) Rabbit's Blues (You Blew Out the Flame in My Heart)
76) Something to Pat Your Foot to
77) Blue Fantasia
78) My Reward
79) Good Queen Bess
80) Jeep's Blues
81) Solitude
82) Jeep Is Jumpin'
83) Castle Rock
84) Sophisticated Lady
85) Globe Trotter
86) Gentle Breeze
87) Sideways
88) Pound of Blues
89) Wham
90) Who Excited?
91) Sweeping the Blues Away
92) Day Dream
93) Standing Room Only
94) Below the Azores