Together Again! (Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff album)
This article is about the Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff album. For other uses, see Together Again (disambiguation).
| Together Again! | ||||
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| Studio album by Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff | ||||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Recorded |
May 25 & November 9, 1959 and February 26 & August 16, 1960 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label |
Prestige PR 7364 | |||
| Producer | Esmond Edwards | |||
| Willis Jackson chronology | ||||
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Together Again! is an album by saxophonist Willis Jackson with organist Jack McDuff which was recorded in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Prestige label in 1965.[1]
Reception
| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "the Willis Jackson-Jack McDuff-speared combo offers respectable early soul-jazz, if not too different from many other Prestige-overseen sessions of the early '60s".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Willis Jackson except as indicated
- "Three Little Words" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) - 5:01
- "Tu'gether" - 7:10
- "Glad'a See Ya" - 4:12
- "This'll Get to Ya" - 10:14
- "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 6:58
- Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on May 25, 1959 (track 1), and at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 9, 1959 (track 3), February 26, 1960 (tracks 4 & 5) and August 16, 1960 (track 2)
Personnel
- Willis Jackson - tenor saxophone
- Jack McDuff - organ
- Bill Jennings - guitar
- Milt Hinton (tracks 4 & 5), Wendell Marshall (tracks 2 & 3), Tommy Potter (track 1) - bass
- Bill Elliot (track 2), Alvin Johnson (tracks 1 & 3-5) - drums
- Buck Clarke - congas (tracks 4 & 5)[4][5]
References
- ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed February 18, 2013
- 1 2 Unterberger, R. Allmusic listing accessed February 18, 2013
- ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 111. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ↑ Discogs Willis Jackson With Jack McDuff* – Together Again!
- ↑ The Afro-American October 14, 1972 Page 11 - What's Happening by Ida Peters
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