Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Duke Ellington Available Now
Duke Ellington And Johnny Hodges Play The Blues
UPDATE 2026
When this record came out in the 90s, we were happy to recommend it to our customers:
This is one of the better sounding Classic titles from their Verve series, and the music is excellent.
Finding a clean original is no mean feat, as I’m sure you can imagine.
I can find no record of us ever having done a shootout for it, which probably means that we just could not find enough clean original copies to do it and just gave up.
They sell for an average of $27.20 on Discogs so for that price you are probably getting a very good record for your money.
Heavy Vinyl Overview
The better Heavy Vinyl pressings can be found in this group, along with other Heavy Vinyl pressings we liked or used to like.
The bad Heavy Vinyl pressings can be found in this group. And those in the middle end up in this group.
Audio and record collecting (they go hand in hand) are hard. If you think either one is easy you are very likely not doing it right, but what makes our twin hobbies compelling enough to keep us involved over the course of a lifetime is one simple fact, which is this: Although we know so little at the start, and we have so much to learn, the journey itself into the world of music and sound turns out to be both addictive and great fun.
Every listing in this section is about knowing now what I didn’t know then, and there is enough of that material to fill its own blog if I would simply take the time to write it all down.
Every album shootout we do is a chance to learn something new about records. When you do them all day, every day, you learn things that no one else could possibly know who hasn’t done that work, comparing thousands of pressings with thousands of other pressings.
Further Reading