Duke with a Difference is an album by American jazz trumpeter Clark Terry featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating:

Clark Terry and some of the top Ellington sidemen of the period perform eight songs associated with Duke, but with fresh arrangements. There is plenty of solo space for Terry, Gonsalves, and Hodges, and the arrangements by Terry and Mercer Ellington cast a new light on some of the warhorses.

- Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2U7wjO6k5g

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Ellingtonia Moods and Blues is an album recorded in 1960 led by Paul Gonsalves.

In a review for AllMusic, Cub Koda called the album "one potent date," and wrote: "This is jazz from the days when albums were recorded in one day, and that was a good thing."

Jack Sohmer, writing for Jazz Times, stated: "Despite its brevity, this is an excellent and little-known session."

Pianist and composer Ethan Iverson commented: "The 'Ellington without Ellington' records are their own universe and I've never heard a bad one. I am keeping Ellingtonia Moods and Blues out and about in order to remember to keep listening to it. Gonsalves and Hodges know something particularly private and wonderful about playing the saxophone."- Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0IECBGmwWQ&list=RDv0IECBGmwWQ&start_radio=1

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Blues A-Plenty is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Verve label - Wikipedia

Bink Figgins On Allmusic:

If you're putting on a Johnny Hodges record, you likely know what you're hoping to hear; that Johnny Hodges sound; the cry and the wail and the strut. And here, he is in full command, effortlessly swinging in a laid-back, whiskey-soaked haze, surrounded by giants like Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, Billy Strayhorn and Jimmy Woode...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruKEckwR_4&list=PLkP5lX8SHpvBKYkU6f3qBadefkK-9c96k&index=1

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Sunday afternoon listening.

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Blues A-Plenty is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances recorded in 1958 and released on the Verve label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruKEckwR_4&list=PLkP5lX8SHpvBKYkU6f3qBadefkK-9c96k&index=1

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The Big Sound is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances with members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label.

The AllMusic review by Bob Rusch stated: "While it was not an Ellington record, the band brought its solid qualities in backing and the occasional solo to all the fine Hodges features. This was an integrated unit, not some detached studio band for Hodges to blow over, under, around, and through. It was wonderful Hodges and fine Ellington" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwEmnRv8BEQ&list=RDuwEmnRv8BEQ&start_radio=1

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Duke's in Bed is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges with members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring performances recorded in 1956 and released on the Verve label. All arrangements were done by Billy Strayhorn. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqeJbXeOGLg&list=RDhqeJbXeOGLg&start_radio=1

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Ellingtonia '56 is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges featuring performances with members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra recorded in 1956 and released on the Norgran label.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efZaN_PtkA&list=PLDO9f-PFd6fgyDiL62Er-vqUgnNZsxDEh&index=1

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