A One Day Session 05/25/59 · Willis Jackson Quintet with Jack Mc Duff & Bill Jennings + Bonus Tracks
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Willis Jackson

A One Day Session 05/25/59 · Willis Jackson Quintet with Jack Mc Duff & Bill Jennings + Bonus Tracks

Fresh Sound Records

Personnel:
Willis Jackson (ts), Jack McDuff (org), Bill Jennings (g), Tommy Potter (b), Alvin Johnson (d)

Reference: FSRCD 718

Bar code: 8427328607186

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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.



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 *

Album details

(*) 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

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
© 2012 by Fresh Sound Records

Stereo · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered
Blue Moon Producciones Discograficas, S.L.

Press reviews

"If there really is such a thing as the real deal then Gator Jackson was it. I once described his leathery, honking solos coughed out over sloppy-joe rhythms and there seems no reason to finesse that now, except that these tracks for Prestige, which were culled for five different albums, show more finesse than Jackson was credited with or showed on his later, cruder Muse recordings. Anyone capable of going from the gruff romance of The Man I Love to the fast, semi-bop of Cool Grits was clearly no slouch. Great single-note guitar from Jennings, too. The usual meticulous job from Fresh Sound, with extracts from all the original liner notes, plus two bonus single tracks from Fire recorded two days later. Gator worked."

Brian Morton (February, 2013)
https://www.jazzjournal.co.uk
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-Please Mr. Jackson

"Willis "Gator" Jackson originally made a strong impression as a honking R&B player, first with the Cootie Williams Orchestra, then with his own popular bands. In 1959, starting with this Prestige set, Jackson made his mark on soul-jazz. Teamed with the up-and-coming organist Jack McDuff, guitarist Bill Jennings, bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Alvin Johnson, Gator is heard modifying his style a little (gone are most of the screams) in favor of swinging. He performs four group originals, "Come Back to Sorrento," and "Memories of You" with soulful feeling."

—Scott Yanow (All Music Guide)

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