Together Again! Explained

Together Again!
Type:Studio
Artist:Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff
Cover:Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff - Together Again!.jpg
Released:1965
Recorded:May 25 and 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:Cookin' Sherry
Prev Year:1959–60
Next Title:Really Groovin'
Next Year:1961

Together Again! is an album by saxophonist Willis Jackson with organist Jack McDuff which was recorded in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Prestige label in 1965.[1]

Reception

AllMusic reviewer Richie Unterberger stated: "the Willis Jackson-Jack McDuff-speared combo offers respectable early soul-jazz, if not too different from many other Prestige-overseen sessions of the early '60s".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Willis Jackson, except where noted.

  1. "Three Little Words" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) – 5:01
  2. "Tu'gether" – 7:10
  3. "Glad'a See Ya" – 4:12
  4. "This'll Get to Ya" – 10:14
  5. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 6:58

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-7300-series/#pr-7364 Prestige Records discography
  2. Unterberger, R. AllMusic listing accessed February 18, 2013
  3. Discogs Willis Jackson With Jack McDuff* – Together Again!
  4. The Afro-American October 14, 1972 Page 11 – What's Happening by Ida Peters