The Art of Milt Jackson. Bags Meets Wes! Soul Meeting. Opus de Funk. Past Perfect. Very Tall. Big Bags. Live at the Village Gate. For Someone I Love. In a New Setting. Jazz 'N' Samba. Universal International. At the Museum of Modern Art. Universal Distribution. Born Free. Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet. Memphis Jackson. That's the Way It Is. Just the Way It Had to Be. The Big 3.
Fuji Mama. At the Kosei Nenkin. Montreux ' Soul Fusion. Soul Believer. Bags' Bag. Night Mist. Big Mouth. Memories of Thelonious Sphere Monk. Ain't But a Few of Us Left. A London Bridge. Mostly Duke. Two of the Few. Soul Route. Brother Jim. The Harem. The Big Band, Vol. Reverence and Compassion. The Prophet Speaks. Burnin' in the Woodhouse.
High Fly. Day in New York. Released in , shortly after the concert took place, this set is regarded by jazz historians as one of the greatest concerts ever to be performed during the MOMA's terrific free concert series during the '60s. During a rare respite from the Modern Jazz Quartet, Jackson was able to record as a solo artist with musicians of his own caliber. The program is a lithe, breezy set of tunes written by Jackson, Walton, and Moody, with two exceptions: a beautiful reading of Jimmy Heath's "The Quota" to open the program, and a leisurely, sensitive stroll through J.
Johnson's "Enigma. Heath's tune is a knotty hard bop number with a tight, brief head, and Jackson takes the first solo with requisite hipness and swing. Moody's flute fills the first chorus a bit and then drops out, leaving the rhythm section to dig into it with Jackson.
Moody's solo wraps itself around the fat comping chords of Walton and darts in and out of Carter's hard dancing pulse. This is followed by the Latin tinge of "Novamo" by Jackson. The rhythm section sets out pacing a near charanga, and Jackson and Moody move through it with a beautiful, repetitive, singsong melody that quickly gives way to one of the great vibist's elegant high-register solos. Walton was already in his early thirties when he played with Jackson, and he'd been on the N.
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