Jazz Articles about Jeanie Lambe

Oliver Jackson: The Last Great Concert

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2000

The late Oliver Jackson had one foot in each of the major jazz camps, bop and swing. Out of Detroit, he performed with some of the first rate boppers from that city like Tommy Flanagan and Paul Chambers as well as working with Eddie Locke and Yusef Lateef. But he also played with some of the great swingsters and traditional jazzers like Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Charlie Shavers and Buck Clayton.

This 1993 live concert was Jackson's last before his ...