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Jumpin' at Apollo: Illinois Jacquet

Read "Illinois Jacquet" reviewed by Colin Fleming


A top soloist and perhaps an undervalued ensemble player, Illinois Jacquet's crowded, busy style lends to a sort of jazz populism--the flashy horn man best known and celebrated for a few outstanding, transcendent performances wholly distinct from the typical quality of his work. In the realm of rock and roll, Jacquet might put one in mind of Alvin Lee and his Woodstock performance of “I'm Coming Home," or in jazz of Paul Gonsalves on “Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in ...

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Illinois Jacquet: Jumpin' at Apollo

Illinois Jacquet: Jumpin' at Apollo

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

In the mid-1940s, Illinois Jacquet was one of only a few tenor saxophonists who played in the styles of both Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Most tenormen of the period picked one influential approach or the other. Jacquet's ability to swing between both styles allowed him to chop away like Hawkins on r&b sides and sail along breezily like Young on ballads. Between 1945 and 1947, Jacquet exhibited these styles on the Apollo label, first in Los Angeles and then ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Illinois Jacquet

Delmark Records
2004

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Illinois Jacquet

Delmark Records
2002

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