Little Willie Jackson

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Little Willie Jackson (* 1912 in Texas ; † 1998 ) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( alto and baritone saxophone , also clarinet , vocals ) who was mainly active in the Los Angeles area .

Live and act

Jackson played with pianist Joe Liggins at the Creole Serenaders in San Diego in the mid-1930s . At the end of the decade, Jackson and Liggins moved to Los Angeles, where the two formed The Honeydrippers in the mid-1940s . The band had a number 1 hit in the R&B charts in 1945 with “ The Honeydripper ”, the first million-dollar seller of rhythm and blues. Jackson occasionally acted as the singer of the Honeydrippers , such as the single "Walkin '", which was created in 1946 for the Exclusive label . In 1947, the Liggins band recorded six tracks such as I Ain't Got Nobody and Don't Get Around Much Anymore under Jackson's nominal direction for Modern Records . Jackson played for Liggins until the mid-1950s. After Tom Lord , he was involved in 25 recording sessions between 1945 and 1973.

In the mid-1950s, Jackson recorded his last solo record, "Who Put the Lights Out," with pianist Christine Chatman, who appeared on Personality. In 1962 he appeared again on an album by Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers, he also took with him the end of the decade, an album for the label Spectrum of Johnny Otis on. In 1983 he appeared with the all-star formation Legends of the Rhythm & Blues in Los Angeles.

Jackson was one of the few artists on the Modern label who were closer to jazz than most of the other musicians on this label , according to Allmusic ; his repertoire comes mostly from song material from the 1930s and earlier years, such as Spencer Williams ' "I Ain't Got Nobody" (1915), "Muddy Water" (1926), WC Cellphones " St. Louis Blues " (1914) and " There'll Be Some Changes Made ”(1921), stylistically close to Cab Calloway , as well as instrumental numbers such as Jackson's Boogie, Watts Local and Black and Blue , which was also played by Louis Armstrong .

Discographic notes

  • Jazz Me Blues (Ace)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contributing musicians were the tenor saxophonist James Jackson Jr. (1924–1993), guitarist Frank W. Pasley (1904–1968) and the drummer Preston T. "Peppy" Prince (1909–1985).
  2. ↑ http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/BLUES%20&%20GOSPEL/blues_j1.htm
  3. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 21, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Little Willie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and rhythm & blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Texas
DATE OF DEATH 1998