The short time Johnny Hodges left Duke Ellington's band produced a bounty of recordings from his regular band and studio groups. Here is the regular group with Nelson Williams, Emmett Berry or Harold "Shorty" Baker on trumpets, Lawrence Brown (trombone), Al Sears, Rudy Williams, Flip Phillips or Ben Webster on tenor sax, Leroy Lovett or Teddy Brannon on piano, Lloyd Trottman on bass and either Sonny Greer, J.C. Heard or Joe Marshall on drums and the leader's matchless alto sax