Willis JacksonЭрис
время прошло, так особо и не наступив
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- 12 196
- Реєстрація
- 17.07.08
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Тенор саксофонист Уиллис "Гейтор" Джексон родился 25 апреля 1928 года в Майами. Он был очень ярками и своеобразынм музыкантом, хотя в манере его игры чувствуется влияние Иллинойса Жаке. Джексон был связующим звеном между джазом и ритм-энд-блюзом. Его музыка может услажадать, как и любителей классического джаза, так и поклонников рок-н-ролла.
Еще совсем молодым Уиллис Джексон начал выступать во флоридских клубах, где был замечен Кути Уильямсом, с которым сотрудничал с перерывами с 1948 по 1955. Были попытки работы и с другими известными биг-бэндами, даже с Дюком Эллингтоном. Но стремление Гейтора к эксперементам, смешанию стилей и то, что он был слишком яркой индивидуальностью для работы в коллективе, привели его к статусу сессионного музыканта. Что его нисколько не смущало. Он даже отклонил предложение Лайонела Хэмптона. Джексон много работал соло или в качестве лидера гастролирующих бэндов.Записывал собственные альбомы. Участвовала в различных в коллаборациях. Любопытный факт из его жизни - это изобретение "аллигатор горна": длинного саксофона с шарообразной насадкой с небольшим отверстием, который издавал звуки средние между альтом и сопрано. Несмотря на пренебрежительное отношение к нему критиков, Гейтор упорно и плодотворно работал практически до дня своей смерти. Он умер 25 октября 1985 года во время операции на сердце.
Please Mr. Jackson (Prestige), 1959
Keep on a blowin' (Prestige), 1959
Blue Gator (Prestige), 1959
Cookin' sherry (Prestige), 1959
Together again (with Jack McDuff) (Prestige), 1960
Really groovin' (Prestige), 1961
In my solitude (Moodsville), 1961
Together again, again (with Jack McDuff) (Prestige), 1961
Thunderbird (Prestige), 1962
Shuckin' (Prestige), 1962
Neapolitan nights (Prestige), 1962
Loose (Prestige), 1963
More gravy (Prestige), 1963
Boss shoutin' (Prestige), 1964
Gator tails (Verve), 1964
Live - Jackson's action's (Prestige), 1964
Willis Jackson (Verve), 1964
Smokin' with Willis (Cadet), 1965
Soul grabber (Prestige), 1967
Star bag (Prestige), 1968
Swivel hips (Prestige), 1968
Gator's groove (Prestige), 1968
Mellow blues (Upfront)
Recording session (Big Chance), 1970
Gatorade (Prestige), 1971
West Africa (Muse), 1973
Headed and gutted (Muse), 1974
The way we were (Atlantic), 1975
Funky reggae (Trip), 1976
In the alley (Muse), 1976
Plays with feeling (Cotillion), 1976
The Gator horn (Muse), 1977
Bar wars (Muse), 1977
Single action (Muse), 1978
Lockin' horns (with Von Freeman)(Muse), 1978
In Chateauneuf du Pape (Black and blue), 1980
Nothin' butt (Muse), 1980
Keep on a blowin' (Prestige), 1959
Blue Gator (Prestige), 1959
Cookin' sherry (Prestige), 1959
Together again (with Jack McDuff) (Prestige), 1960
Really groovin' (Prestige), 1961
In my solitude (Moodsville), 1961
Together again, again (with Jack McDuff) (Prestige), 1961
Thunderbird (Prestige), 1962
Shuckin' (Prestige), 1962
Neapolitan nights (Prestige), 1962
Loose (Prestige), 1963
More gravy (Prestige), 1963
Boss shoutin' (Prestige), 1964
Gator tails (Verve), 1964
Live - Jackson's action's (Prestige), 1964
Willis Jackson (Verve), 1964
Smokin' with Willis (Cadet), 1965
Soul grabber (Prestige), 1967
Star bag (Prestige), 1968
Swivel hips (Prestige), 1968
Gator's groove (Prestige), 1968
Mellow blues (Upfront)
Recording session (Big Chance), 1970
Gatorade (Prestige), 1971
West Africa (Muse), 1973
Headed and gutted (Muse), 1974
The way we were (Atlantic), 1975
Funky reggae (Trip), 1976
In the alley (Muse), 1976
Plays with feeling (Cotillion), 1976
The Gator horn (Muse), 1977
Bar wars (Muse), 1977
Single action (Muse), 1978
Lockin' horns (with Von Freeman)(Muse), 1978
In Chateauneuf du Pape (Black and blue), 1980
Nothin' butt (Muse), 1980
1950 - On My Own (CBR 320 kbps)
1960 - Blue Gator (CBR 192 kbps)
1 - Blue Gator
2 - Try A Little Tenderness
3 - Gator's Tail
4 - This Nearly Was Mine
5 - East Breeze
6 - She's Funny That Way
Personnel:
Willis Jackson (tenor sax)
Brother Jack McDuff (organ)
Bill Jennings (guitar)
Tommy Potter, Wendell Marshall, Milt Hinton (bass)
Alvin Johnson, Bill Elliot (drums)
2 - Try A Little Tenderness
3 - Gator's Tail
4 - This Nearly Was Mine
5 - East Breeze
6 - She's Funny That Way
Personnel:
Willis Jackson (tenor sax)
Brother Jack McDuff (organ)
Bill Jennings (guitar)
Tommy Potter, Wendell Marshall, Milt Hinton (bass)
Alvin Johnson, Bill Elliot (drums)
Willis Jackson
with Pat Martino
Single Action
Produced by Fred Seibert
1. Evergreen
2. Bolita
3. Makin’ Whoopee
4. You Are My Sunshine
5. Hittin’ The Numbers
6. Single Action
7. Evergreen (outtake)
Willis Jackson: tenor saxophone
Pat Martino: guitar
Carl Wilson: organ
Jimmy Lewis: bass
Yusef Ali: drums
Ralph Dorsey: percussion
Willis Jackson single handedly pulled me away from the avant garde and towards the soulful, bluesy expression of jazz that was popular in the African American neighborhoods of mid-century America. He didn’t mean to, he didn’t want to, it was just that he was so damn good.
Less a producer than actually a recording supervisor (my credit on this album) I arrived at our first session together with virtually no information on what we were recording or who was playing. Willis was tough and a little paranoid so this situation played out during the three or four sessions we did together. I’d never heard any of his music (it wasn’t cool enough within the jazzbo circles I traveled in) and when I looked into the studio I thought I’d been time warped into the 1950s: five African Americans 20 years older than me in conked processes and starched white shirts and ties. They hit the first tune and didn’t stop until Willis looked up at me and asked if they had enough to fill the record. When informed they were eight minutes short he revved up a blues and kept it going until I faded it to make the length.
By the end of the five hour session I’d stopped making fun (in my head) of the tenor saxophone/organ based soul jazz, and realized why it spoke to so many millions of people. It wasn’t an intellectual exercise but a human one. They were playing songs that people knew and loved, with a feeling that anyone could understand. I was late to the party, but it wouldn’t be over for me even 30 years later.
…..
Credits
Muse Records MR 5179
Willis Jackson
with Pat Martino
Single Action
Recording supervisor: Fred Seibert
Engineered by Rudy VanGelder, VanGelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
April 26, 1978
Cover Design by Ron Warwell/NJE
Cover photo by Clarence Eastmond
with Pat Martino
Single Action
Produced by Fred Seibert
1. Evergreen
2. Bolita
3. Makin’ Whoopee
4. You Are My Sunshine
5. Hittin’ The Numbers
6. Single Action
7. Evergreen (outtake)
Willis Jackson: tenor saxophone
Pat Martino: guitar
Carl Wilson: organ
Jimmy Lewis: bass
Yusef Ali: drums
Ralph Dorsey: percussion
Willis Jackson single handedly pulled me away from the avant garde and towards the soulful, bluesy expression of jazz that was popular in the African American neighborhoods of mid-century America. He didn’t mean to, he didn’t want to, it was just that he was so damn good.
Less a producer than actually a recording supervisor (my credit on this album) I arrived at our first session together with virtually no information on what we were recording or who was playing. Willis was tough and a little paranoid so this situation played out during the three or four sessions we did together. I’d never heard any of his music (it wasn’t cool enough within the jazzbo circles I traveled in) and when I looked into the studio I thought I’d been time warped into the 1950s: five African Americans 20 years older than me in conked processes and starched white shirts and ties. They hit the first tune and didn’t stop until Willis looked up at me and asked if they had enough to fill the record. When informed they were eight minutes short he revved up a blues and kept it going until I faded it to make the length.
By the end of the five hour session I’d stopped making fun (in my head) of the tenor saxophone/organ based soul jazz, and realized why it spoke to so many millions of people. It wasn’t an intellectual exercise but a human one. They were playing songs that people knew and loved, with a feeling that anyone could understand. I was late to the party, but it wouldn’t be over for me even 30 years later.
…..
Credits
Muse Records MR 5179
Willis Jackson
with Pat Martino
Single Action
Recording supervisor: Fred Seibert
Engineered by Rudy VanGelder, VanGelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
April 26, 1978
Cover Design by Ron Warwell/NJE
Cover photo by Clarence Eastmond
Willis "Gator" Jackson - Sax (Tenor)
Charles Earland - Organ
Pat Martino - Guitar
Grady Tate - Drums
Buddy Caldwell - conga
1.Nuages
2.Just the Way You Are
3.Nothing Butt
4.Hittin' and Missin'
5.Autumn Leaves
6.Move
Charles Earland - Organ
Pat Martino - Guitar
Grady Tate - Drums
Buddy Caldwell - conga
1.Nuages
2.Just the Way You Are
3.Nothing Butt
4.Hittin' and Missin'
5.Autumn Leaves
6.Move
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Заливаю пока один альбом, 1950-го. Я просто не могу представать такого человека, которому он не понравится: джазовые эстеты, поклонники рок-н-ролла, любители стиля 50-ых, ценители нуара в кинематографе, влюбленные романтики - все найдут на нем свою, ту самую мелодию.
Пы.Сы. Не будете, как обычно, стасами и стаситами, еще что-нибудь залью
Пы.Сы. от 26.10.10. Все с вами ясно!!!! Залью, что есть в надежде на залетных личеров, пусть хоть они нормальную музыку послушают.
- Опис
- jazz/hard bop/rhythm'n'blues/soul jazz/saxophone
- Країна
- Сполучені Штати Америки
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