A One Day Session 05/25/59 Willis Jackson Quintet With Jack Mc Duff & Bill Jenni

Description: Personnel: Willis Jackson (ts), Jack McDuff (org), Bill Jennings (g), Tommy Potter (b), Alvin Johnson (d) For the first time, 14 tracks recorded by Prestige in a single session and released separately in five different albums. It also includes 2 tracks from a Fire single that was recorded two days later by the same group minus Tommy Potter. Theres a style of playing tenor saxophone which, for lack of a better name, can be called Southeastern. Its a warm, extrovert way of playing, with a heavy two-beat rhythm that can rock you off your chair. Its not esoteric, obscure or subtleeverything is laid right on the line in a blues-drenched, afterbeat style. Among its major exponents is Willis Gator Jackson (1932-1987), whose playing has definite shades of latter-day Lester Young, and though he made a every effort at restraint, the inevitable demands of the hard-blowing Southeastern way were always paramount. In it Jackson exploited his big, round tenor sound to the full, swinging straight-ahead and powerfully on most tunes, which, when combined with his full-blooded treatment of the ballads, made his work readily identifiable. The support comes from Jack McDuff, whose persuasive work on the Hammond organ is marked by his good taste and swinging phrasing, while in a fine rhythm section guitarist Bill Jennings contributes imaginative, slightly astringent single-string guitar solos throughout this unequivocally burning date. TRACKLIST: 01. Gator's Tail [a.k.a. The Gator Jumps] (Willis Jackson) 3:39 02. A Smooth One (Benny Goodman) 5:21 03. The Man I Love (G. & I. Gershwin) 7:10 04. Cool Grits (Jackson-McDuff-Jennings) 8:33 05. Memories of You (Blake-Razaf) 6:05 06. Please Mr. Jackson (Jackson-McDuff-Jennings) 5:47 07. How Deep Is the Ocean? (Irving Berlin) 4:02 08. Dink's Mood (McDuff-Jackson) 3:56 09. 633 Knock (Jennings-Doggett) 5:19 10. Angel Eyes (Dennis-Brent) 4:41 11. Three Little Words (Kalmar-Rubin) 4:58 12. Shes Funny That Way (Whiting-Moret) 5:11 13. Come Back to Sorrento (Ernesto DeCurtis) 4:30 14. Gil's Pills (Gil Acea) 4:06 15. Good to the Bone (Robinson-Lewis-Jackson) 2:30 * 16. Makin' It (Jackson-Jennings) 2:27 * (*) Bonus Tracks Sources: Tracks #4,5,6,8,9 & 13, from the album "Please Mr. Jackson" (Prestige PR 7162) Tracks #2, 3 & 7, from the album "Cool Gator" (Prestige PR 7172) Tracks #1 & 12, from the album "Blue Gator" (Prestige PR 7183) Track #11, from "Willis Jackson with Jack McDuff - Together Again!" (Prestige PR 7364) Tracks #10 & 14, from the album "Willis Jackson with Jack McDuff - Together Again, Again!" (Prestige PR 7428) Bonus tracks #15 & 16, from the 7 single, Fire 1003 Personnel in all tracks: Willis Jackson Quintet Willis Jackson (tenor sax), Jack McDuff (organ), Bill Jennings (guitar), Tommy Potter (bass, out on #15 & 16), Alvin Johnson (drums). Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, on May 25, 1959 Original recordings supervised by Esmond Edwards (#1-14), Bobby Robinson (#15 & 16) Sound engineer: Rudy Van Gelder Original art cover: Esmond Edwards / Don Schlitten Produced for CD release by Jordi Pujol & Esteban Sánchez Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered

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Location: Lake Hughes, California

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