The Milt Jackson Big 4

The Milt Jackson Big 4
Live album by Milt Jackson
Released	1975
Recorded	July 17, 1975
Genre	Jazz
Length	50:02
Label	Pablo
Producer	Norman Granz
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The Milt Jackson Big 4 is a live album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring pianist Oscar Peterson recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Pablo label.^[1]

Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players.

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, but simply "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received numerous other awards and honours. He is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists, and played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.

The Montreux Jazz Festival is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Bags and O.P. always bring out the best in each other and this well-conceived set is no exception".^[2]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

"Fuji Mama" (Blue Mitchell) - 6:34
"Everything Must Change" (Bernard Ighner) - 6:21
"Speedball" (Lee Morgan) - 7:54
"Nature Boy" (eden ahbez) - 4:30
"Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 7:20
"Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy van Heusen) - 5:56
"Night Mist Blues" (Ahmad Jamal) - 6:36
"Mack the Knife" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) - 6:31

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival at the Casino de Montreux in Switzerland on July 17, 1975

Personnel

The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars, and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist or vibraharpist.

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

↑ Milt Jackson discography accessed February 2, 2012
1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 2, 2012

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