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Grease 'n' Gravy

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Released
  
1963

Artist
  
Willis Jackson

Producer
  
Ozzie Cadena

Genre
  
Jazz

Grease 'n' Gravy(1963)
  
The Good Life(1963)

Release date
  
1963

Label
  
cappo digital

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Recorded
  
May 23 & 24, 1963Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Similar
  
Willis Jackson albums, Jazz albums

Grease 'n' Gravy is an album by saxophonist Willis Jackson which was recorded in 1963 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2½ stars stating "It's respectable, not too cool and not too hot early-'60s organ-sax jazz, with Wilson's organ and the still-teenaged Martino's guitar as vital to the success of the date as Jackson's tenor sax is".

Track listing

All compositions by Willis Jackson except as indicated

  1. "Brother Elijah" (Jackson, Wade Marcus, William "Mickey" Stevenson) - 5:13
  2. "Doot Dat" - 7:23
  3. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb) - 3:13
  4. "Gra-a-avy" - 11:42
  5. "Grease"- 7:21
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on May 23 (tracks 1 & 2), & May 24 (tracks 3-5), 1963

    • Personnel

  • Willis Jackson - tenor saxophone
  • Frank Robinson - trumpet
  • Carl Wilson - organ
  • Pat Martino - guitar
  • Leonard Gaskin - bass (tracks 3-5)
  • Joe Hadrick - drums

    • Songs

    1Gra-A-Avy11:33
    2Brother Elijah5:07
    3Grease7:14

    References

    Grease 'n' Gravy Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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