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Milt Jackson: In A New Setting
by Douglas Payne
For someone like Milt Jackson to declare this a new setting is really saying something. After all, the ageless vibraphonist has recorded in countless small groups capable of any style as well as in big bands, with strings, as a vocalist and as a guitarist too. What's new in this recently reissued 1964 quintet session is ...
Milt Jackson: Sunflower
by Douglas Payne
After years on the road with the Modern Jazz Quartet and a series of sterling solo and all-star jazz performances, vibraphonist Milt Jackson decided it was time to see some green. Watching kids half his age, possessing half his talent, earn millions playing rock, he insisted he could earn more without the restraints of ...
Milt Jackson meets the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Explosive!
by Jim Santella
Vibraphonist Milt Jackson, 76, formed the roots of the Modern Jazz Quartet almost fifty years ago. That same lyrical quality that drives the MJQ stands before the fourteen-year-old Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, sharing, blending, and coaxing the melodies out of his vibraphone’s metal bars. The microphones are set up so that the listener has the same opportunity ...
Milt Jackson/The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra: Explosive!
by Douglas Payne
In a recording career that's spanned more than half a century, the masterful vibraphonist Milt Jackson has seldom been less than flawless. For Explosive!, his fifth disc on Quincy Jones's well-distributed Qwest label, Jackson is suitably teamed with the well-populated Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. It too, is no exception; offering a sterling collection of Jackson's pleasing blend ...
Toots Sweet
by AAJ Staff
When most people think of the harmonica, they usually picture Ackroyd and Belushi soulin' it up in black suits, southern fried wah-wah blues or a scene from within a jail cell at state prison. Now that's not jazz. But, one man managed to create something unique with the harmonica that no one could ever imagine in ...
The Jazz Giants Play Cole Porter- Night And Day
By Zoot Sims
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Dream Dancing;
Just One Of Those Things;
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home;
Love For Sale;
All Of You;
Night And Day;
I Love Paris;
I've Got You Under My Skin;
Begin The Begine;
I Love You;
Easy To Love;
Ev'ry Time I Say Goodbye; From This Moment On.
