Live at the Musuem of Modern Art Milt Jackson Wikepedia
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| Birth name | Milton Jackson |
| Born | (1923-01-01)January i, 1923 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | October 9, 1999(1999-10-09) (aged 76) New York, New York, U.S. |
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Milton Jackson (Jan 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist,[1] usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modernistic Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with difficult bop and post-bop players.
A very expressive actor, Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his attention to variations on harmonics and rhythm. He was specially addicted of the twelve-bar blues at dull tempos. He preferred to set his vibraphone's oscillator to a low 3.three revolutions per 2d (as opposed to Lionel Hampton'south speed of 10 revolutions per second) for a more than subtle tremolo. On occasion, Jackson likewise sang and played piano.
Biography [edit]
Jackson was born on January 1, 1923, in Detroit, Michigan, Us,[1] the son of Manley Jackson and Lillie Beaty Jackson. Like many of his contemporaries, he was surrounded past music from an early on historic period, particularly that of religious meetings: "Everyone wants to know where I got that funky mode. Well, information technology came from church. The music I heard was open, relaxed, impromptu soul music" (quoted in Nat Hentoff'south liner notes to Enough, Plenty Soul). He started on guitar when he was vii, and then on pianoforte at 11.[2]
While attending Miller High Schoolhouse, he played drums in improver to timpani and violin and likewise sang in the choir. At sixteen, he sang professionally in a local touring gospel quartet called the Evangelist Singers. He took up the vibraphone at sixteen afterwards hearing Lionel Hampton play the instrument in Benny Goodman'south band. Jackson was discovered by Lightheaded Gillespie, who hired him for his sextet in 1945, then his larger ensembles.[1] Jackson apace acquired experience working with the most important figures in jazz of the era, including Woody Herman, Howard McGhee, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker.[1]
In the Gillespie big band, Jackson fell into a pattern that led to the founding of the Modern Jazz Quartet: Gillespie maintained a former swing tradition of a small group within a large band, and his included Jackson, pianist John Lewis, bassist Ray Dark-brown, and drummer Kenny Clarke (considered a pioneer of the ride cymbal timekeeping that became the signature for bop and near jazz to follow) while the contumely and reeds took breaks. When they decided to get a working group in their own right, effectually 1950, the foursome was known at get-go as the Milt Jackson Quartet, becoming the Mod Jazz Quartet (MJQ) in 1952.[1] Past that time Percy Heath had replaced Ray Brown.[3]
Known at first for featuring Jackson's blues-heavy improvisations almost exclusively, in time the grouping came to split the difference between these and Lewis'south more than ambitious musical ideas. Lewis had become the grouping's musical director by 1955, the twelvemonth Clarke departed in favour of Connie Kay, boiling the quartet downwards to a chamber jazz style, that highlighted the lyrical tension between Lewis'southward mannered, but roomy, compositions, and Jackson's unapologetic swing.[ commendation needed ]
The MJQ had a long independent career of some ii decades until disbanding in 1974, when Jackson split with Lewis.[1] The group reformed in 1981, nevertheless, and continued until 1993, afterwards which Jackson toured solitary, performing in various small combos, although agreeing to periodic MJQ reunions.[1] From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Jackson recorded for Norman Granz'southward Pablo Records, including Jackson, Johnson, Chocolate-brown & Company (1983), featuring Jackson with J. J. Johnson on trombone, Ray Brownish on bass, backed by Tom Ranier on piano, guitarist John Collins, and drummer Roy McCurdy.[4]
In 1989, Jackson was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Berklee Higher of Music.[five]
His composition "Bags' Groove" is a jazz standard ("Bags" was a nickname given to him by a bass player in Detroit. "Bags" referred to the bags under his optics).[six] He was featured on the NPR radio program Jazz Profiles. Some of his other signature compositions include "The Tardily, Late Blues" (for his album with Coltrane, Numberless & Trane), "Bluesology" (an MJQ staple), and "Bags & Trane".[ citation needed ] [7]
Jackson died of liver cancer in Manhattan, New York,[1] at the age of 76.[8] He was married to Sandra Whittington from 1959 until his death; the couple had a daughter.[8] [9]
Discography [edit]
Every bit leader [edit]
Jackson at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Half Moon Bay, California, 1980s.
- 1948: Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson (Savoy, 1955) with Howard McGhee
- 1948-52: Magician of the Vibes (Blue Annotation, 1952) with Thelonious Monk[10] – a.chiliad.a. Milt Jackson (Blue Note, 1956)
- 1949-56: Roll 'Em Numberless (Savoy, 1956)
- 1949-56: Meet Milt Jackson (Savoy, 1956)
- 1955: Milt Jackson Quartet (Prestige, 1955)
- 1955: Opus de Jazz (Savoy, 1956)
- 1956: Ballads & Blues (Atlantic, 1956)
- 1956: The Jazz Skyline (Savoy, 1956)
- 1956: Jackson'due south Ville (Savoy, 1956)
- 1957: Plenty, Enough Soul (Atlantic, 1957)
- 1957: Bags & Flutes (Atlantic, 1957)
- 1957-58: Soul Brothers with Ray Charles (Atlantic, 1958)
- 1958: Soul Meeting with Ray Charles (Atlantic, 1961)
- 1958: Bags' Opus (United Artists, 1959)
- 1959: Bean Bags with Coleman Hawkins (Atlantic, 1960)
- 1959: Numberless & Trane with John Coltrane (Atlantic, 1961)
- 1959: The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson (Atlantic, 1959)
- 1960-61: Vibrations (Atlantic, 1964)
- 1961: Very Tall with Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve, 1962)
- 1961: Statements (Impulse!, 1962)
- 1961: Bags Meets Wes! with Wes Montgomery (Riverside, 1962)
- 1962: Big Bags (Riverside, 1962)
- 1962: Invitation (Riverside, 1962)
- 1962: For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
- 1963: Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Hamlet Gate (Riverside, 1963) – live
- 1964: Much in Common with Ray Brown (Verve, 1964)
- 1964: Jazz 'due north' Samba (Impulse!, 1964)
- 1964: In a New Setting (Limelight, 1965)
- 1964-65: I/Nosotros Had a Brawl with Art Blakey et al. (Limelight, 1965)
- 1965: Ray Brown / Milt Jackson with Ray Chocolate-brown (Verve, 1965)
- 1965: Milt Jackson at the Museum of Mod Art (Limelight, 1965) – live
- 1966: Born Free (Limelight, 1968)
- 1968: Milt Jackson and the Hip Cord Quartet (Verve, 1968)
- 1969: That's the Manner It Is featuring Ray Brown (Impulse!, 1969) – live
- 1969: Simply the Way It Had to Be featuring Ray Brown (Impulse!, 1970) – alive
- 1969: Memphis Jackson with the Ray Brown Big Band (Impulse!, 1970)
- 1971: Reunion Blues with Oscar Peterson (MPS, 1971)
- 1972: Sunflower (CTI, 1973)
- 1972: Cherry with Stanley Turrentine (CTI, 1972)
- 1972-73: Goodbye with Hubert Laws (CTI, 1974)
- 1974: Olinga (CTI, 1974)
- 1975: The Milt Jackson Big 4 (Pablo, 1975) – live
- 1975: The Big 3 with Joe Pass and Ray Chocolate-brown (Pablo, 1975)
- 1976: At The Kosei Nenkin (Pablo, 1977)[2LP] – live
- 1976: Feelings (Pablo, 1976)
- 1977: Quadrant with Joe Pass, Ray Brown, and Mickey Roker (Pablo, 1977)
- 1977: Soul Fusion with The Monty Alexander Trio (Pablo, 1978)
- 1977: Montreux '77 & Ray Brownish (Pablo, 1977)
- 1979: Loose Walk with Sonny Stitt (Palcoscenico, 1980)
- 1980: All Too Soon: The Duke Ellington Anthology with Ray Brown, Mickey Roker & Joe Pass (Pablo, 1980)
- 1980: Night Mist (Pablo/OJC, 1981)
- 1981: Ain't But a Few of U.s.a. Left with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1981)
- 1982: A London Span (Pablo, 1988) – alive
- 1982: Mostly Duke (Pablo, 1991) – live
- 1982: In London: Memories of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Pablo, 1982)
- 1983: Jackson, Johnson, Chocolate-brown & Company with J. J. Johnson (Pablo, 1983)
- 1983: 2 of the Few with Oscar Peterson (Pablo, 1983)
- 1983: Soul Route (Pablo, 1984)
- 1993: Reverence and Compassion (Qwest/Warner Bros.)
- 1994: The Prophet Speaks (Qwest/WB)
- 1995: Burnin' in the Woodhouse (Qwest/WB)
- 1997: Sa Va Bella (For Lady Legends) with Etta Jones (Qwest/WB)
- 1998: The Very Tall Ring with Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown (alive from Blueish Note) (Telarc)
- 1999: EXPLOSIVE! Milt Jackson Meets the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra (Qwest/WB)
Posthumous release
- At the Kosei Nenkin vol. 2: Centerpiece (Pablo, 2002) – mostly unissued tracks from the 1976 Japanese live session
Compilations [edit]
- All Star Bags (Blue Note, 1976)(2LP) – compilation recorded in 1952-57
- Milt Jackson (Quintessence Jazz Serial) (Pickwick, 1979)
- The Best of Milt Jackson (Pablo, 1980)
With the Modern Jazz Quartet [edit]
Jackson (left) in Seattle, Washington, c. 1980
- Vendome (Prestige, 1952)
- Modern Jazz Quartet, II (Prestige, 1955)
- Concorde (Prestige, 1955)
- Fontessa (Atlantic, 1956)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice (Atlantic, 1957)
- The Modernistic Jazz Quartet (Atlantic, 1957)
- Third Stream Music (Atlantic, 1957) – recorded in 1959–60. including Sketch for Double String Quartet (1959).
- The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House (Verve, 1957)
- The Modernistic Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (Atlantic, 1958)
- Music from Odds Against Tomorrow (United Artists, 1959)
- Pyramid (Atlantic, 1960)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra (Atlantic, 1960)
- The Comedy (Atlantic, 1962)
- Alone Adult female (Atlantic, 1962)
- European Concert (Atlantic, 1962) – recorded in 1960
- A Quartet is a Quartet is a Quartet (Atlantic, 1963)
- Collaboration (Atlantic, 1964) with Laurindo Almeida
- The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin'south Porgy and Bess (Atlantic, 1965) – recorded in 1964–65
- Jazz Dialogue (Atlantic, 1965) with the All-Star Jazz Ring
- Concert in Japan '66 (Atlantic [Japan], 1966)
- Dejection at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic, 1966)
- Identify Vendôme (Philips, 1966) with The Swingle Singers
- Nether the Jasmin Tree (Apple tree, 1968)
- Infinite (Apple tree, 1969)
- Plastic Dreams (Atlantic, 1971)
- The Legendary Profile (Atlantic, 1972)
- In Memoriam (Petty David, 1973)
- Blues on Bach (Atlantic, 1973)
- The Last Concert (Atlantic, 1974)
- The Only Recorded Operation of Paul Desmond With The Modern Jazz Quartet (Finesse/Columbia, 1981) with Paul Desmond – recorded in 1971
- Reunion at Budokan 1981 (Pablo, 1981)
- Together Once again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82 (Pablo, 1982)
- Echoes (Pablo, 1984)
- Topsy: This One's for Basie (Pablo, 1985)
- Three Windows (Atlantic, 1987)
- For Ellington (Eastward West, 1988)
- MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Commemoration (Atlantic, 1994) – recorded in 1992–93
- Defended to Connie (Atlantic, 1995) – recorded in 1960
As sideman [edit]
| With Miles Davis
With Dizzy Gillespie
With Oscar Peterson
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References [edit]
- ^ a b c d east f g h Colin Larkin, ed. (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music (Third ed.). Virgin Books. p. 218. ISBN1-85227-937-0.
- ^ Heckman, Don; Oliver, Myrna (October 12, 1999). "Milt Jackson; Vibraphonist With Modernistic Jazz Quartet". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Percy Heath | Biography & History". AllMusic . Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ^ "Jackson, Johnson, Brownish & Visitor - Milt Jackson, J.J. Johnson, Ray Brown | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ^ Mattingly, Rick. "Milt Jackson". PAS Hall of Fame. Percussive Arts Society. Pas.org; retrieved March 25, 2018.
- ^ Hard Bop: Jazz and Blackness Music 1955–1965. New York: Oxford University Printing. 1992. ISBN0-19-505869-0.
- ^ Owens, Thomas (2003). "Jackson, Milt(on) (jazz)". Oxfordmusiconline.com. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J219800. ISBN978-1-56159-263-0 . Retrieved July 28, 2021.
- ^ a b Ratliff, Ben (October eleven, 1999). "Milt Jackson, 76, Jazz Vibraphonist, Dies". The New York Times.
- ^ Cotroneo, P. J. (January 2002). "Jackson, Milt". American National Biography. Oxford Academy Printing. doi:x.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1803666.
- ^ "Milt Jackson [Bluish Note] - Milt Jackson | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved October 25, 2019.
External links [edit]
- Milt Jackson at AllMusic
- Milt Jackson at the Difficult Bop Homepage
- Milt Jackson: Round Midnight on YouTube
- Milt Jackson at Find a Grave
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Jackson
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