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Blue Gator

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Released
  
1960

Release date
  
1960

Label
  
Prestige Records

Artist
  
Willis Jackson

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
May 25, November 9, 1959 and February 26 & August 16, 1960

Studio
  
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Blue Gator (1959-60)
  
Cookin' Sherry (1959-60)

Similar
  
Willis Jackson albums, Jazz albums

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Blue Gator is the third album led by saxophonist Willis Jackson featuring organist Jack McDuff and guitarist Bill Jennings which was recorded in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Willis Jackson except where noted.

  1. "Blue Gator" – 9:12
  2. "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry Woods) – 5:57
  3. "Gator's Tail" – 3:39
  4. "This Nearly Was Mine" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:31
  5. "East Breeze" (Esmond Edwards) – 10:01
  6. "She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard Whiting) – 5:10

Note

  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on May 25, 1959 (tracks 3 & 6), and at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 9, 1959 (track 5), February 26, 1960 (track 4) and August 16, 1960 (tracks 1 & 2)

    • Personnel

  • Willis Jackson – tenor saxophone
  • Jack McDuff – organ
  • Bill Jennings – guitar
  • Milt Hinton (track 4), Wendell Marshall (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Tommy Potter (tracks 3 & 6) – bass
  • Bill Elliot (tracks 1 & 2), Alvin Johnson (tracks 3-6) – drums
  • Buck Clarke – congas (track 4)

    • References

    Blue Gator Wikipedia
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