Star Bag

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Star Bag
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Studio album by Willis Jackson
Released 1968
Recorded March 22, 1968
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Label Prestige
PR 7571
Producer Cal Lampley
Willis Jackson chronology
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(1967) Soul Grabber1967		Star Bag
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Star Bag is an album by saxophonist Willis Jackson which was recorded in 1968 and released on the Prestige label. [2]

Willis "Gator" Jackson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Willis Jackson except where noted.

  1. "Star Bag" – 7:35
  2. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 5:55
  3. "Good to the Damn Bone" (Jackson, Bill Jennings) – 5:38
  4. "More" (Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Norman Newell) – 7:25
  5. "Smoke Rings" (Gene Gifford, Ned Washington) – 6:00
  6. "Yellow Days" (Alan Bernstein, Álvaro Carrillo) – 5:45

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Gertrude E. "Trudy" Pitts was an American soul jazz keyboardist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was known primarily for playing the Hammond B3 organ.

Hammond organ electric organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to specify a variety of sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier so it can drive a speaker cabinet. Around two million Hammond organs have been manufactured. The organ is commonly used with, and associated with, the Leslie speaker.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic listing accessed March 6, 2013
  2. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed March 6, 2013


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