Milt Jackson, Ballads & Blues, 1956 on Atlantic

Jackson’s most well know as the vibraphonist in the Modern Jazz Quartet but he also collaborated and recorded with many other bop musicians. Here he is joined by Lucky Thomson (sax), John Lewis (piano), Skeeter Best (guitar), Oscar Pettiford (bass), Kenny Clarke (drums), Barney Kessel (guitar), Percy Heath (bass), Lawrence Marable (drums), and Barry Gailbraith (guitar). (Lewis and Clarke had […]

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Rewatching the Ken Burns Jazz series as it happened to be on telly, nice that Fletcher Henderson gets a good mention. Henderson's is my favourite early big band.

I was thinking about great last recordings by folk recently. Fletcher Henderson Sextet (1950) is a really nice live set. Sad to think he was gone not long after. Plus it's got Lucky Thomson on it! Anything with Lucky on is guaranteed to be good.

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Soft winds
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