Preludio a un beso

Prelude for a kiss

© Copyright Oscar Grillo 2017

Música:
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Prelude to a kiss   (1957)
Columbia CL1085

Lily Pons [*] on alto sax.
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[*]  In an interview (“Blinfold Test”) with Leonard Feather for Metronome in 1948, Charlie Parker refers to Hodges as Johnny “Lily Pons” Hodges. (Lily Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s)
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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Willie Cook, Clark Terry, Ray Nance (tp) Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman (trb) John Sanders (bass trb) Johnny Hodges (as,solo) Russell Procope (as) Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves (ts) Harry Carney (bar) Duke Ellington (p,ldr,comp) Jimmy Woode (b) Sam Woodyard (dr). New York, October 1, 1957