Willis Jackson with Jack Mc Duff and Bill Jennings Gators Tail

Gators Tail The Gator Jumps (Jackson) from the 12 album Blue Gator (Prestige PR 7183) Willis Jackson Quintet Willis Jackson (tenor sax), Jack McDuff (organ), Bill Jennings (guitar), Tommy Potter (bass, ), Alvin Johnson (drums). Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, on May 25, 1959 A One Day Session 05, 25, 59: Willis Jackson Quintet With Jack Mc Duff Bill Jennings Featuring: Willis Jackson (ts), Jack McDuff (org), Bill Jennings (g), Tommy Potter (b), Alvin Johnson (d) Theres a style of playing tenor saxophone which, for lack of a better name, can be called Southeastern. Its a warm, extrovert way of playing, with a heavy twobeat rhythm that can rock you off your chair. Its not esoteric, obscure or subtleeverything is laid right on the line in a bluesdrenched, afterbeat style. Among its major exponents is Willis Gator Jackson (19321987), whose playing has definite shades of latterday Lester Young, and though he made a ever