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Article: The Complete Art Hodes Blue Notes Sessions.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 19, 1988
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The Complete Art hodes Blue
IT WAS, I sometimes feel, around the turn of the century that I met Art Hodes. The late John Hammond drove me out to the butt end of Staten Island to hear "a Chicago piano player waiting to get his 802 card." We found him in a beer parlor, playing waltzes--but when the last drunk had left, Hodes leaned over the keyboard of the upright and let us hear it. He was a thin man--thinner than God made spinach--a kind of rueful knight of jazz. But he had it all in his fingers and his head--the blues and the gut-bucket music that came up from New Orleans--the good, the righteous, the moldy-fig jazz.
Art Hodes moved upward and onward, ...
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