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Jan 19, 2024 · Roll ‘Em Bags is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances recorded in 1949 and 1956 and released on the Savoy label.
Jun 6, 2023 · Self-taught Monty melds music from his native Jamaica to straight ahead jazz and fuses it and twists it all with a swinging sound that's all his own. He was a favorite from Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett to Oscar Peterson and Milt Jackson, and he is a favorite for us as well.
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Feb 6, 2011 · Here, with a harpist and 11-piece string ensemble, Sebesky gives Jackson's opening ballad, "For Someone in Love," a burnished sheen, but it can't take away from the vibraphonist's ethereal touch, flugelhornist Freddie Hubbard 's more propulsive approach, or pianist Hancock's abstract impressionism; all making for a stunning intro to an album ...
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Few musicians have achieved as great a level of individualism on their instrument as vibraphone master Milt Jackson. On this swinging edition of Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center we...
Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.
Oct 1, 2001 · But there was a hefty dose of blues to the MJQ's Bach, most of it courtesy of vibraphonist Milt Jackson. Jackson's masterful blues-oriented improvisations are on fine display here on his only Blue Note outing.
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Aug 29, 2017 · Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson is an album by American jazz trumpeter Howard McGhee with vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances recorded in 1948 and first released on the Savoy label in 1955.
