Alvin Jackson (musician)
Alvin "AJ" Jackson is a jazz bassist.
His first performances were in a high school band with his younger brother, Milt Jackson, Willie Anderson, Lucky Thompson, Art Mardigan, and George Sirhagen, c. 1939-40.[1]
About 1947, he was playing with Tommy Flanagan’s trio with Kenny Burrell,[2] before briefly joining the house band led by Billy Mitchell at Detroit's Blue Bird Inn,[3] before leading it himself in 1955.[4]
The Billy Mitchell-led house band comprised Flanagan, Tate Houston and Milt Jackson, who had just returned from touring with Woody Herman.[4]
While Alvin Jackson was leading the house band at the Blue Bird in 1955 the line-up comprised Yusef Lateef, Donald Byrd, Bernard McKinney, Barry Harris, and drummers Art Mardigan or Frank Gant.[5]
In September 1959, with house drummer Frank Gant, he backed Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse at Detroit's Club 12, in September 1959.[6]
Discography
- As sideman
- 1948: Milt Jackson & his All Stars - Milt Jackson with John Lewis, Alvin Jackson, Kenny Clarke, and Chano Pozo
- 1955: Byrd Jazz - Donald Byrd
- 1959: Pieces of Eighty-Eight - Evans Bradshaw
- 1964: Vibrations (recorded 1960-1)
References
- ↑ Gallert, Jim with Lars Bjorn "Willie Anderson: Forgotten Detroit Piano Wizard" Detroit Music History. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ↑ Gitler, Ira (1985) Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s, p. 262. Oxford University Press At Google Books. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- 1 2 Björn, Lars Olof (2001) Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60, p. 124. University of Michigan Press At Google Books. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ↑ Björn, Lars Olof (2001) Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60, p. 140. University of Michigan Press At Google Books. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ↑ Kelley, Robin (2009) Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, p. 273. Simon and Schuster At Google Books. Retrieved 9 July 2013.