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Scuffling in New York

The chapter details how Hodges began to travel between his home in Boston and New York, whose jazz scene was much larger. He worked in “dancing schools”—establishments that had many female dancers but few teachers, as they functioned as dating services cum whorehouses. He began to play in jam sessions, typically all-night affairs at which young players tested their skills against each other and more established musicians. Hodges’s first steady job playing at a club paid him $25 per week and $25 to $30 per night in tips, but he did not move permanently to New York right away, instead commuting back and forth until sometime in 1925. The chapter describes how Hodges played with several bands before joining first Sidney Bechet’s band, then Chick Webb’s. Webb was unable to keep his group together, and Hodges joined Duke Ellington in 1928.