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

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

Personnel

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

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