Blue Gator

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Blue Gator
Blue Gator.jpg
Studio album by
Willis Jackson
Released1960
RecordedMay 25, November 9, 1959; February 26 and August 16, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
PR 7183
Producer Esmond Edwards
Willis Jackson chronology
Cool "Gator"
(1961)		Blue Gator
(1960)		 Cookin' Sherry
(1960)
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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. [3]

Contents

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

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ AllMusic listing accessed February 15, 2013
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  110. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed February 15, 2013


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