Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

Tracklist

• 1
  Wabash Blues
  6:14
• 2
  Basin Street Blues
  8:03
• 3
  Beale Street Blues
  7:35
• 4
  Weary Blues
  6:55
• 5
  St. Louis Blues
  5:46
• 6
  Loveless Love
  7:09
• 7
  Royal Garden Blues
  5:22

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Release credits

• Al Hall
  double bass [1, 4]
• Duke Ellington
  piano
• Harry “Sweets” Edison
  trumpet
• Jo Jones
  drums (drum set)
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone
• Les Spann
  guitar
• Norman Granz
  producer
• Sam Jones
  double bass [2-3, 5-7]

Issues

• B
  (Combined release view)
• B
  Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

  12" Vinyl (mono)
  1959
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  B
  Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

  12" Vinyl
  1960
• 

  B
  Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

  CD
  1984
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  B
  Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

  CD
  1997
• 

  B
  Back To Back

  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)
  2012
• 

  B
  Back to Back (Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues)

  Digital Media (24 bit - 192 kHz AIFF Remastered in Stereo)
  2014
• 

  B
  Back To Back / Side By Side

  2x CD
  2016
• 

  B
  Back To Back (Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues)

  Digital Media
  10 March 2023
• 

  B
  Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues

  CD