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Bar Wars (album)

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Released
  
1978

Bar Wars (1977)
  
Single Action (1978)

Release date
  
1978

Label
  
32 Records

Length
  
45:17

Artist
  
Willis Jackson

Producer
  
Joe Fields

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
December 21, 1977 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Similar
  
Willis Jackson albums, Jazz albums

Willis jackson bar wars


Bar Wars is an album by saxophonist Willis Jackson which was recorded in 1977 and first released on the Muse label.

Contents

Willis jackson bar wars


Reception

In his review on Allmusic, Scott Yanow states "This is a particularly exciting release... The chord changes might be fairly basic but Willis Jackson plays with such enthusiasm and exuberance that it almost sounds as if he had discovered the joy of playing music".

Track listing

All compositions by Willis Jackson except as indicated

  1. "Later" (Sil Austin, Tiny Bradshaw, Henry Glover) - 5:51
  2. "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) - 2:59
  3. "Bar Wars" - 6:57
  4. "The Breeze and I" (Tutti Camarata, Ernesto Lecuona, Al Stillman) - 5:00
  5. "The Goose Is Loose" - 5:02
  6. "It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter) - 7:15
  7. "The Breeze and I" (Camarata, Lecuona, Stillman) - 5:10
  8. "It's All Right With Me" (Porter) - 7:03

Personnel

  • Willis Jackson - tenor saxophone
  • Charles Earland - organ
  • Pat Martino - guitar
  • Idris Muhammad - drums
  • Buddy Caldwell – congas, percussion
  • Songs

    1Later5:55
    2Blue and Sentimental3:04
    3Bar Wars7:02

    References

    Bar Wars (album) Wikipedia