Together Again! (Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff album)

Together Again!
Studio album by Willis Jackson and Jack McDuff
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 PR 7364
Producer	Esmond Edwards
Willis Jackson chronology
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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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars stating, "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)^[4][5]

References