Blue Gator Explained

Blue Gator
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Willis Jackson
Cover:	Blue Gator.jpg
Released:	1960
Recorded:	May 25, November 9, 1959; February 26 and August 16, 1960
Studio:	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack and Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Prestige
Producer:	Esmond Edwards
Chronology:	Willis Jackson
Prev Title:	Cool "Gator"
Prev Year:	1961
Next Title:	Cookin' Sherry
Next Year:	1960

Blue Gator is the third album led by saxophonist Willis Jackson featuring organist Jack McDuff and guitarist Bill Jennings which was recorded in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Prestige label.^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Willis Jackson except where noted.

1. "Blue Gator" – 9:12
2. "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry Woods) – 5:57
3. "Gator's Tail" – 3:39
4. "This Nearly Was Mine" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:31
5. "East Breeze" (Esmond Edwards) – 10:01
6. "She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard Whiting) – 5:10

Note

• Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on May 25, 1959 (tracks 3 & 6), and at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 9, 1959 (track 5), February 26, 1960 (track 4) and August 16, 1960 (tracks 1 & 2)

Personnel

• Willis Jackson – tenor saxophone
• Jack McDuff – organ
• Bill Jennings – guitar
• Milt Hinton (track 4), Wendell Marshall (tracks 1, 2 & 5), Tommy Potter (tracks 3 & 6) – bass
• Bill Elliot (tracks 1 & 2), Alvin Johnson (tracks 3-6) – drums
• Buck Clarke – congas (track 4)

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-7100-series/#prlp-7183 Prestige Records discography