Together Again! (Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff album)

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Released 1965 Artist Willis Jackson Producer Esmond Edwards Genre Jazz		Together Again! (1959-60) Really Groovin' (1961) Release date 1965 Label Prestige Records
Recorded May 25 & November 9, 1959 and February 26 & August 16, 1960 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Similar Willis Jackson albums, Jazz albums

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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.

Reception

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".

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)

Songs

1Gil's PillsJack McDuff4:05
2Angel EyesJack McDuff4:40
3Three Little WordsJack McDuff5:02

References

Together Again! (Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff album) Wikipedia

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