Milt Jackson - Wizard of the Vibes
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Artist: Milt JacksonEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-07-17
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Tahiti
- Lillie
- Bags' Groove
- What's New
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- On The Scene
- Lillie (Alternate Take)
- What's New (Alternate Take)
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Alternate Take)
- Evidence
- Misterioso
- Epistrophy
- I Mean You
- Misterioso (Alternate Take)
- All The Things You Are
- I Should Care
- I Should Care (Alternate Take)
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Music Review: Early sessions from the master vibist.
Rating: 4 Stars
"Wizard of the Vibes" gathers together two historic single sessions by Milt Jackson-- the first, from 1952, finds the master vibest in the company of what would become the rest of the Modern Jazz Quartet-- pianist John Lewis, bassist Percy Heath and drummer Kenny Clarke, with altoist Lou Donaldson along for the ride. The second, recorded four years earlier, places Jackson as a sideman in the Thelonious Monk quartet-- with the pair joined by bassist John Simmons, drummer Shadow Wilson, and on three cuts, vocalist Kenny Hagood.
The 1952 session is an exciting bebop performance-- clearly recorded for singles, each piece is necessarily kept under three and a half minutes, which results in a bit of a tightening of what you'd expect the performances to be. Nonetheless, there's some great playing-- Jackson asserts his brilliance throughout, but in particular on his originals-- his performances range from deft and exciting ("Tahiti") to lovely and sensitive ("Lillie") and frantically boppish ("On the Scene"). For their part, the rest of the band performs admirably, particularly Lewis, who already seems deeply in sync with Jackson.
The Monk sessions consists of four Monk originals and two standards, the latter performed with Hagood. The Monk pieces all receive pretty much universally fantastic readings-- with Jackson on top of him, the leader seems to enter an almost meditative state, picking and choosing where to play. His accompaniments throughout are delicate and widely spaced, giving room for Jackson to explore while providing support, whereas his solos are sparse, subtle and brilliant. "Misterioso" in particular is worth noting-- the piece is fantastic, with Jackson agile and excitable and Monk cooling things down without losing any intensity. The vocal pieces are pretty throwaway, Hagood's style is deeply rooted in the '30s and is somewhat grating.
This reissue is augmented with alternates from each session (a total of five pieces) and is remastered as part of the Rudy Van Gelder edition-- it's been commented that the sound on these isn't as good as other recordings in this series, and while strictly speaking this is true, it is comparable to other recordings of its era-- these are old tapes, the fact they sound as good as they do is a luxury.
I'm not widely familiar with Jackson's work-- I approached this recording as a Monk fan-- but I can state that these sessions are highly enjoyable and worth investigation. Also, anyone who enjoys the Monk/Jackson sessions would do well to dig up "Genius of Modern Music, Volume Two", which features Jackson in the company of Monk on nine further cuts. Recommended.
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