Alvin "AJ" Jackson was 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.[6]
Discography
edit- 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
edit- ^ Gallert, Jim with Lars Bjorn "Willie Anderson: Forgotten Detroit Piano Wizard" Archived 2016-02-11 at the Wayback Machine Detroit Music History. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians Archived 2015-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ historian, Ira Gitler Jazz (1985-11-07). 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. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-536411-8.
- ^ a b Bjorn, Lars; Gallert, Jim (2001). Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06765-7.
- ^ Bjorn, Lars; Gallert, Jim (2001). Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06765-7.
- ^ Kelley, Robin D. G. (2009-12-08). Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-9049-4.