''Memphis Jackson'' is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring performances with the Ray Brown Big Band recorded in 1969 for the Impulse! label.Impulse! Records discography
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Reception

The

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review awarded the album 4.5 stars.Allmusic Review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Milt Jackson except as indicated'' # "Uh-Huh" (Ray Brown) - 3:48 # " One Mint Julep (One Way)" ( Rudy Toombs) - 2:33 # " Oh Happy Day" ( Edwin Hawkins) - 3:30 # "Memphis Junction" - 2:49 # "Queen Mother Stomp" ( Victor Feldman) - 6:30 # "Braddock Breakdown" (Ray Brown) - 3:40 # "A Sound for Sore Ears" (

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) - 3:02 # "Enchanted Lady" - 5:06 # "One Mint Julep (The Other Way)" (Toombs) - 2:44 # "Picking Up the Vibrations ( Ray Brown) - 4:11 :*Recorded at Annex Recording Studios, Hollywood, California on October 9 (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 9 & 10) and October 10 (tracks 4, 5 & 8), 1969

Personnel

* Milt Jackson – vibes * Al Aarons (tracks 4, 5 & 8), John Audino (tracks 1–3 & 9), Bud Brisbois (tracks 6, 7 & 10), Buddy Childers (tracks 1–3 & 9), Harry Edison (tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 9 & 10), Ollie Mitchell (tracks 6, 7 & 10) –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*Randy Aldcroft (tracks 1–3 & 9), Jimmy Cleveland (tracks 6, 7 & 10) –

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

*Kenny Shroyer – bass trombone (tracks 6, 7 & 10) *John T. Johnson –

tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...

(tracks 1–3 & 9) * Ernie Watts –

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

(tracks 1–3 & 9) * Jim Horn – alto saxophone,

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

(tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 9 & 10) * Teddy Edwards –

tenor 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 (whi ...

(tracks 4–8 & 10) *John Lowe – baritone saxophone (tracks 1–3 & 9) *

Mike Melvoin Mike Melvoin (May 10, 1937February 22, 2012) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He served as chairman and president of The Recording Academy and worked as a prolific studio musician, recording with Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, ...

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piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into ele ...

(tracks 1–3, 6, 7, 9 & 10) * Joe Sample – electric piano (tracks 4, 5 & 8) *

Howard Roberts Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician. Early life Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 — a ...

(tracks 4, 5 & 8), Fred Robinson (tracks 4–8 & 10) –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Ray Brown –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

, conductor * Wilton Felder –

electric bass The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an electric but with a longer neck and scale leng ...

* Cubby O'Brien (tracks 6, 7 & 10), Paul Humphries (tracks 4, 5 8), Earl Palmer (tracks 1–3 & 9) –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

* Victor Feldman –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(tracks 4, 5 & 8)

References

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