Jazz pianist Art Hodes (1904–1993) was born in Ukraine and moved to the U.S. with his family as a baby. While he got his start as a musician in Chicago, his big break came when he moved to New York in ...

Art Hodes-a legendary jazz-blues pianist who was born in Russia, made a name in 1920s Chicago, and rubbed elbows with Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke and Bud Freeman-died ...

Back when jazz and blues were just beginning to take root in Chicago-in the first decades of this century-a wide-eyed kid named Art Hodes saw (and heard) it all happen. ”I was here when the jazz sound ...

Delmark has hit the spot with this reissue in terms of music as social history. Trombonist George Brunis and clarinetist Volly DeFaut were both members of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, a band that ...

Jazz pianist Art Hodes, born in Russia in 1904, grew up near Chicago. His recording career really took off in the 1940s in New York, where he also hosted a radio show and wrote for the magazine The ...

Intro To Angry; Angry; Sobbin' Blues; That's A Plenty; TinRoof Blues; Panama; Clarinet Marmalade; NORK Blues; Sensation; Ja Da; The Real Thing; After You've Gone (alternate); I Know That You Know ...