Alvin Jackson (musician)

Alvin "AJ" Jackson was a jazz bassist.

His first performances were in a high school band with his younger brother, Milt Jackson, Willie Anderson, Lucky Thompson, Art Mardigan, and George Sirhagen, c. 1939–40.[1]

About 1947, he was playing with Tommy Flanagan’s trio with Kenny Burrell,[2] before briefly joining the house band led by Billy Mitchell at Detroit's Blue Bird Inn,[3] before leading it himself in 1955.[4]

The Billy Mitchell-led house band comprised Flanagan, Tate Houston and Milt Jackson, who had just returned from touring with Woody Herman.[4]

While Alvin Jackson was leading the house band at the Blue Bird in 1955 the line-up comprised Yusef Lateef, Donald Byrd, Bernard McKinney, Barry Harris, and drummers Art Mardigan or Frank Gant.[5]

In September 1959, with house drummer Frank Gant, he backed Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse at Detroit's Club 12.[6]

Discography
As sideman

References
  1. Gallert, Jim with Lars Bjorn "Willie Anderson: Forgotten Detroit Piano Wizard" Archived 2016-02-11 at the Wayback Machine Detroit Music History. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  2. Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians Archived 2015-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  3. historian, Ira Gitler Jazz (1985-11-07). Swing to Bop : An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-536411-8.
  4. Bjorn, Lars; Gallert, Jim (2001). Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06765-7.
  5. Bjorn, Lars; Gallert, Jim (2001). Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06765-7.
  6. Kelley, Robin D. G. (2009-12-08). Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-9049-4.
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