Willis Jackson

A One Day Session - May 25Th, 1959 + Bonus Tracks (FSRCD 718)

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A One Day Session - May 25Th, 1959 + Bonus Tracks

Willis Jackson

Fresh Sound Records

8427328607186

ZZZ 133373

FSRCD 718

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A One Day Session - May 25Th, 1959 + Bonus Tracks

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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.
There’s a style of playing tenor saxophone which, for lack of a better name, can be called Southeastern. It’s a warm, extrovert way of playing, with a heavy two-beat rhythm that can rock you off your chair. It’s not esoteric, obscure or subtle—everything 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.

PERSONNEL ON ALL TRACKS:

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

SOURCES
:

Tracks 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 13, from the 12” album Please Mr. Jackson (Prestige PR 7162)
Tracks 2, 3 & 7, from the 12” album Cool Gator (Prestige PR 7172)
Tracks 1 & 12, from the 12” album Blue Gator (Prestige PR 7183)
Track 11, from the 12” album Willis Jackson with Jack McDuff - Together Again (Prestige PR 7364)
Tracks 10 & 14, from the 12” album Willis Jackson with Jack McDuff - Together Again, Again, (Prestige PR 7428)
Bonus tracks 15 & 16, from the 7” single, Fire 1003

01. Gator’s Tail [a.k.a. The Gator Jumps] (Jackson) 3:39
02. A Smooth One (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? (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. She’s Funny That Way (Whiting-Moret) 5:11
13. Come Back to Sorrento (DeCurtis) 4:30
14. Gil’s Pills (Acea) 4:06
Bonus Tracks:
15. Good to the Bone (Robinson-Lewis-Jackson) 2:30
16. Makin’ It (Jackson-Jennings) 2:27

Total time: 78:00 min. approx.