Willis Jackson

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Gator's Groove 02:41 Tools
Nuther'n Like Thuther'n 07:29 Tools
Swimmin' Home Baby (Fruit Cake) 02:21 Tools
Nuther'n Like 06:59 Tools
Pool Shark 03:59 Tools
Jingle Bells 03:15 Tools
Bar Wars 07:00 Tools
Please Mr. Jackson 05:48 Tools
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 02:42 Tools
Pick Up The Pieces 03:56 Tools
Later for the Gator 03:56 Tools
The Breeze And I 04:56 Tools
Blue Velvet 07:37 Tools
Blue Gator 09:17 Tools
A Hard Day's Night 05:37 Tools
Recubah (Album Version) 07:37 Tools
Swimmin' Home Baby 00:00 Tools
Brother Ray 04:13 Tools
Ain't No Sunshine 02:19 Tools
Cool Grits 08:36 Tools
Ain’t No Sunshine 00:30 Tools
Wine-o-Wine 00:30 Tools
She's Funny That Way 05:14 Tools
Harlem Nocturne 03:07 Tools
Troubled Times 06:36 Tools
Try a Little Tenderness 06:03 Tools
Swimmin' Home Baby (Fruitcake) 02:24 Tools
Later 05:55 Tools
Bolita 00:00 Tools
Dance of the Lady Bug 00:00 Tools
Nuther'n Like Thutherin' 07:28 Tools
Good To The Bone 02:33 Tools
On My Own 02:56 Tools
Brown Eyed Girl 03:48 Tools
Gator's Tail 03:45 Tools
nurthern like thurthen 06:57 Tools
Soul Train 04:37 Tools
The Man I Love 07:13 Tools
Ol' Man River 03:50 Tools
Lady Marmalade 04:35 Tools
More Blues At Midnight 03:11 Tools
East Breeze 10:06 Tools
Nuthern Like Thuthern 06:54 Tools
This Nearly Was Mine 04:35 Tools
Estrellita 02:54 Tools
Blue & Sentimental 03:02 Tools
The Goose Is Loose 05:05 Tools
nuthern like futhern 06:55 Tools
Howling At Midnight 02:49 Tools
It's All Right With Me 07:13 Tools
West Africa 06:51 Tools
Cookin' Sherry 08:19 Tools
Mellow Blues 09:04 Tools
When I Fall in Love 04:05 Tools
Love's Theme (Album Version) 04:35 Tools
Thunderbird 00:00 Tools
Pick Up The Pieces (LP Version) 03:54 Tools
Sportin' 04:51 Tools
Pick Up The Pieces - LP Version 02:23 Tools
More Gravy 04:09 Tools
The Way We Were 04:36 Tools
Something Good 04:43 Tools
633 Knock 05:24 Tools
Love Story 02:23 Tools
Stuffin' 07:13 Tools
Pool Shark (45 edit) 02:30 Tools
Shame, Shame, Shame 03:40 Tools
Don't Misunderstand 03:52 Tools
The Young Man With A Horn 03:23 Tools
Contrasts 05:46 Tools
Lover's Eve 06:19 Tools
Feelings 04:51 Tools
Memories of You 06:06 Tools
Bouquet 03:52 Tools
Do Your Super Thing 04:26 Tools
Somewhere Along the Way 04:08 Tools
The Head Tune 09:00 Tools
Careless Love - Instrumental 06:19 Tools
Walking Home 03:05 Tools
Cachita 00:00 Tools
Home - Instrumental 03:52 Tools
Where Are You? 05:45 Tools
They Didn't Believe Me - Instrumental 03:38 Tools
Good Gliding 03:05 Tools
Pick Up the Pieces (Album Version) 03:38 Tools
Singing Bass 04:31 Tools
Girl Of My Dreams - Instrumental 03:52 Tools
Dink's Mood 04:00 Tools
Solitude - Instrumental 04:12 Tools
Sideshow 04:26 Tools
Fungii Mama 04:08 Tools
Recubah 04:12 Tools
Florence of Arabia 00:00 Tools
My One and Only Love 06:24 Tools
Nancy (With The Laughing Face) - Instrumental 05:23 Tools
A House Is Not a Home 05:16 Tools
Makin' It 02:31 Tools
The Breeze and I (Bonus Track) 05:13 Tools
Come Back To Sorrento 04:33 Tools
Body And Soul 07:55 Tools
Estrellita - Instrumental 04:10 Tools
The Cracker Jack 02:27 Tools
Then Came You 02:31 Tools
Fiddlin' 05:13 Tools
Al Di La - Instrumental 04:08 Tools
Fire 04:28 Tools
Nurther'n Like Thuther'n 06:54 Tools
It's All Right With Me (Bonus Track) 07:03 Tools
Nuther'n Like Tuther'n 06:59 Tools
Again - Instrumental 07:03 Tools
I'll Be Home For Christmas 10:11 Tools
I Love You, Yes I Do 04:17 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind - Instrumental 05:16 Tools
Love's Theme 03:41 Tools
GATOR`S GROOVE 07:05 Tools
Do It To It 05:45 Tools
Jive Samba 10:08 Tools
Brother Elijah 10:08 Tools
This'll Get to Ya 10:11 Tools
A Smooth One 05:24 Tools
What's Going on 04:44 Tools
I Remember Clifford - Instrumental 04:44 Tools
Chuck's Chuckles 07:21 Tools
Shuckin' 00:00 Tools
California Sun 03:53 Tools
What’s Going On 00:30 Tools
Single Action 06:19 Tools
Solitude 05:09 Tools
Blue Strollin' 07:45 Tools
Secret Love 00:00 Tools
On the Sunny Side of the Street 02:41 Tools
One Mint Julep 04:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
Polka Dots And Moonbeams 00:00 Tools
Do Your Super Thing (Album Version) 10:08 Tools
Please Mr Jackson (Jack McDuff & Willis "Gator" Jackson) 05:48 Tools
Swivel Hips 07:16 Tools
I Remember Clifford 03:51 Tools
Ain't No Sunshine (feat. Not Applicable) 05:48 Tools
Doot Dat 07:21 Tools
Angel Eyes 04:16 Tools
Shake Dance 02:49 Tools
Later 'Gator 02:44 Tools
Do It to It (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Amor - Instrumental 03:53 Tools
Nuther 'N Like Thunder' 'N 07:26 Tools
Don't Knock My Love 02:18 Tools
Rock! Rock! Rock! 02:41 Tools
By the Time I Get to Phoenix 00:00 Tools
Gator Whale 06:01 Tools
A Twist of Blues 05:40 Tools
Stompin' At The Savoy 03:40 Tools
All Soul 00:00 Tools
It's Too Late 03:40 Tools
Sweet Peter Charleston 00:00 Tools
Careless Love 04:26 Tools
Call of the Gators 03:06 Tools
Soul Grabber 02:00 Tools
A Penny Serenade 07:44 Tools
Shoutin' 06:45 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind 04:04 Tools
Goose Pimples 04:40 Tools
I Left My Heart in San Francisco 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again 02:53 Tools
Flamingo 00:00 Tools
Grease 07:19 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean 04:05 Tools
Racubah 04:11 Tools
More 07:44 Tools
Ebb Tide 00:00 Tools
Brown Eyed Girl (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Amor 07:51 Tools
Later for the Gator (05-29-50) 00:30 Tools
Ode To Billie Joe 02:57 Tools
Nuthern Like Thurthern 00:00 Tools
Mama Inez 00:00 Tools
Singing Bass (Album Version) 07:19 Tools
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 03:44 Tools
Blue And Sentimental 03:04 Tools
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean? 02:57 Tools
I Can't Stop Loving You 00:00 Tools
What Kind of Fool Am I? 00:00 Tools
Back Door 02:53 Tools
They Didn't Believe Me 00:00 Tools
After Hours 00:00 Tools
Just The Way You Are 07:08 Tools
Doin' The Mudcat 04:47 Tools
Evergreen 04:15 Tools
Dance Of The Ladybug 02:32 Tools
Tangerine 00:00 Tools
Sunny 06:38 Tools
Nothing Butt 04:47 Tools
Miss Ann 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 04:28 Tools
He Said, She Said, I Said 00:00 Tools
The Good Life 05:06 Tools
Try a Little Tenderness (04-23-54) 00:30 Tools
Que Sera, Sweetie 07:01 Tools
Keep On A Blowin' 10:24 Tools
Rhode Island Red 03:35 Tools
Up A Lazy River 00:00 Tools
Move 00:00 Tools
Arrivederci Roma 05:44 Tools
Back And Forth 00:00 Tools
The Call Of The 'Gators 00:00 Tools
Nuages 04:50 Tools
Oh Lady, Be Good 05:28 Tools
Street Scene 02:51 Tools
Home 05:13 Tools
Days of Wine and Roses 02:40 Tools
The Song Of Ossanha 02:40 Tools
Neapolitan Nights 07:01 Tools
As Long as She Needs Me 03:35 Tools
Rock, Rock, Rock 02:40 Tools
Shame, Shame, Shame (Album Version) 06:27 Tools
I Wish You Love 03:17 Tools
Nancy (With The Laughing Face) 03:56 Tools
Fly Me To The Moon 07:51 Tools
Hittin' and Missin' 07:59 Tools
Girl Talk 05:28 Tools
Hello... "Gator" Speaking 02:58 Tools
Wishbone 02:39 Tools
Summertime 06:27 Tools
It Never Entered My Mind (Instrumental) 06:27 Tools
The Way We Were (Album Version) 06:27 Tools
Nice 'N' Easy 06:38 Tools
St. Louis Blues 08:24 Tools
Walk Right In 00:00 Tools
Again 03:44 Tools
The Call Of The Gators 02:41 Tools
Gra-A-A-Vy 02:20 Tools
Nuther'n Like Thurther'n 03:35 Tools
Gonna Hoot And Holler Saturday Night 10:11 Tools
Girl of My Dreams 04:20 Tools
Making It 00:00 Tools
Blow Jackson Blow 02:37 Tools
Swimmin Home Baby 00:00 Tools
Here In My Heart 03:14 Tools
Amor (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Gator Tail 10:03 Tools
A Lot Of Livin' To Do 06:55 Tools
Satin Doll 08:53 Tools
Nother'n Like T'Other'n 07:29 Tools
I Dig Rock And Roll Music 02:51 Tools
Down Boy 02:47 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy 05:14 Tools
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid 00:00 Tools
Hello, Good Luck 07:22 Tools
Tu'Gether 03:09 Tools
Willis and Von 08:46 Tools
POW 10:11 Tools
The Shadow of Your Smile 10:11 Tools
Lady Marmalade (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Monkey Hips 05:15 Tools
Nuther n like thuther n 07:36 Tools
Your Wonderful Love 05:57 Tools
Gra-a-Avy 11:33 Tools
Alfie 08:25 Tools
N'Uther 'N Like T'Huther 'N 07:22 Tools
Swimming Home Baby 02:20 Tools
These Blues Are Made For Walking 05:48 Tools
Makin' Whoopee 07:01 Tools
Al-Di-La 08:26 Tools
More Gravy (45 edit) 03:02 Tools
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 02:55 Tools
Hittin' The Numbers 04:15 Tools
Where Are You 00:00 Tools
Keep on A-Blowin' 04:50 Tools
Do It, To It 05:43 Tools
Medley 07:40 Tools
Street Scene (AKA Sentimental Rhapsody) 02:41 Tools
Then Came You (Album Version) 07:36 Tools
I Almost Lost My Mind 04:20 Tools
In A Mellow Tone 08:56 Tools
Nurther’n Like Thurter’n 05:14 Tools
I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing 02:41 Tools
Cat Meal 00:00 Tools
Win, Lose, Or Draw 03:56 Tools
When My Dreamboat Comes Home 05:45 Tools
What will I Tell My Heart 00:00 Tools
Please Mr. Jackon 05:45 Tools
Al Di La 04:50 Tools
Y' Understand Me 05:57 Tools
Ain't No Sunshine (Skit) 02:49 Tools
Nother'n Like T'Othern 04:50 Tools
Girl Of My Dreams (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Lover's Eve (Album Version) 02:41 Tools
Blowin' Like Hell 06:09 Tools
She's My Love 00:00 Tools
Frankie And Johnny 07:51 Tools
Thunderbird (45 edit) 02:50 Tools
Gator's Tail - Remastered 03:56 Tools
Scrapple From The Apple 06:06 Tools
Boss St Louis Blues 06:06 Tools
Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom) 04:50 Tools
Willis Jackson Ain't No Sunshine (Skit) 04:50 Tools
The Breeze And I - Bonus Track 02:55 Tools
Fire (Album Version) 04:50 Tools
I'm A Fool To Want You 00:00 Tools
You Are Sunshine Of My Life 07:44 Tools
Lonesome Road 03:30 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me 04:20 Tools
Street Scene (Rhapsody) 02:49 Tools
Headed And Gutted 03:56 Tools
Heavy Makes You Happy 03:09 Tools
Something Good (Album Version) 03:09 Tools
Feelings (Album Version) 03:09 Tools
Nurthern like 06:57 Tools
On Broadway 03:30 Tools
The Skillet 02:55 Tools
Ungawa 08:20 Tools
You've Changed 04:39 Tools
Pee Wee (Call of the Gators) 04:39 Tools
Blue Gator - Remastered 04:35 Tools
Y'Understand Me? 09:04 Tools
Gil's Pills 04:08 Tools
Singing Brass 02:55 Tools
And I Love Her 04:41 Tools
The Young Man With A Horn (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Annie Laurie 02:37 Tools
Boss St. Louis Blues 08:26 Tools
This Is Always 05:23 Tools
The Gator Horn 05:01 Tools
Young Man With The Horn 03:56 Tools
Gooseneck 08:35 Tools
Oatmeal 05:57 Tools
In the Alley 09:14 Tools
Careless Love (Instrumental) 03:30 Tools
They Didn't Believe Me (Instrumental) 03:30 Tools
Good Gliding (AKA Gators Got To Go) 03:30 Tools
Sideshow (Album Version) 03:30 Tools
Hello Dolly 02:37 Tools
Nightingale 03:07 Tools
Y'All 03:07 Tools
Jackson's Action! 08:26 Tools
Ya Understand Me 03:56 Tools
Do Your Sugar Thing 08:20 Tools
Jive Samba (Pt. 1) 08:20 Tools
Come Back to 04:35 Tools
Cookin' Sherry - Remastered 04:35 Tools
It's All Right With Me - Bonus Track 04:03 Tools
Three Little Words 04:35 Tools
Evergreen (alternate take) 04:41 Tools
Harlem Nocturne (07-09-51) 03:09 Tools
Rock, Rock, Rock (05-23-52) 02:42 Tools
Broadway 02:42 Tools
Again (Instrumental) 04:08 Tools
Swimmin' Home 04:08 Tools
Nancy (With The Laughing Face) (Instrumental) 04:08 Tools
Sha-Na-Boom-Boom (I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing) 04:08 Tools
Bouquet (Album Version) 04:08 Tools
Jackson's Action 03:07 Tools
43 - Willis Gator Jackson - Gator's Groove 08:26 Tools
Do It, Do It 05:45 Tools
Au Privave 08:35 Tools
The Crocodile 04:03 Tools
POW! 10:11 Tools
Fiddin' 05:35 Tools
Skillet 05:57 Tools
'Gater's Groove 05:57 Tools
Gator`s Groove - 1977 04:03 Tools
Sportin - Remastered 02:42 Tools
When I Fall In Love - Remastered 02:42 Tools
Lonely Bedroom 06:24 Tools
The Breeze And I (Alt) 04:41 Tools
I Remember Clifford (Instrumental) 04:41 Tools
Home (Clarkson-Van Steeden) 05:15 Tools
Gater's Groove (05-23-52) 05:15 Tools
A'w Right-Do It! 05:15 Tools
Your Wonderful Life 05:57 Tools
Early One Morning (Part 2) 05:01 Tools
Try a Little Tenderness - Remastered 05:01 Tools
'Gator's Groove 05:45 Tools
Don't Missunderstand 05:45 Tools
Willis Jackson: Swimmin' Home Baby (Fruit Cake) 10:11 Tools
Yellow Days 05:35 Tools
East Breeze - Remastered 05:35 Tools
This Nearly Was Mine - Remastered 05:35 Tools
Mellow Blues - Remastered 05:35 Tools
Que Sera Sweetie 03:09 Tools
Yesterday 02:42 Tools
You are the Sunshine of my Life 03:09 Tools
More Blues At Night/Willis Jackson 04:35 Tools
Home (Instrumental) 04:35 Tools
Tugether 07:07 Tools
Like Thuther N 07:07 Tools
Al Di La (Instrumental) 07:07 Tools
Nuther'n Like Thunder'n 05:57 Tools
Swivel Hips (Alt Take) 05:57 Tools
Early One Morning 05:57 Tools
More Blues At Night 05:57 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good 05:57 Tools
Nuther'n Like Thuter'n 05:57 Tools
Hello "Gater" Speaking 02:42 Tools
Nuthern Like Thurthern - Willis Jackson 05:57 Tools
Street Scene (07-09-51) 05:57 Tools
Good to the Damn Bone 02:42 Tools
Let 'Em Roll 02:42 Tools
Nuther’n Like Thuther’n 03:09 Tools
Makin' 02:42 Tools
The Breeze And I - Alt 02:42 Tools
Gator's Groove - Digitally Remastered 02:42 Tools
Estrellita (Instrumental) 02:42 Tools
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Willis "Gator" Jackson (April 25, 1932 – October 25, 1987) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues tenor saxophonist. Born in Miami, Florida, Jackson joined Duke Ellington alumnus Cootie Williams's band in 1949 as a teenager, after being discovered by Eddie Vinson. During the 1950s Jackson participated in R&B and jazz recordings, primarily as a session musician. He also toured as leader of the backing band of singer Ruth Brown, whom he married. Jackson joined Prestige Records in 1959, making a string of jazz albums that proved to an influence on the burgeoning soul jazz movement. During this era, Jack McDuff and Pat Martino became famous through association with Jackson. Jackson's main influences were Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet. Jamaican ska innovator Prince Buster has cited Jackson's song "Later for the Gator" as one of the first ska songs. Jackson died in New York one week after heart surgery, in October 1987, at the age of 55. Discography Please Mr. Jackson (Prestige, 1959) - with Jack McDuff and Bill Jennings Cool "Gator" (Prestige, 1959–60) with Jack McDuff and Bill Jennings [also released as Keep on a Blowin] Blue Gator (Prestige, 1959–60) Cookin' Sherry (Prestige, 1959-60 1961) Together Again! (Prestige, 1959-60 [1965]) - with Jack McDuff Really Groovin' (Prestige, 1961)[also released as Swingtime] In My Solitude (Moodsville, 1961) Together Again, Again (Prestige 1959-1961 [1966]) - with Brother Jack McDuff Thunderbird (Prestige, 1962) Johnny "Hammond" Cooks with Gator Tail (Prestige, 1962) - with Johnny "Hammond" Smith Bossa Nova Plus (Prestige, 1962) [also released as Shuckin'] Neapolitan Nights (Prestige, 1962) Loose... (Prestige, 1963) Grease 'n' Gravy (Prestige, 1963) The Good Life (Prestige, 1963) More Gravy (Prestige, 1963) Boss Shoutin' (Prestige, 1964) Jackson's Action! (Prestige, 1964) Live! Action (Prestige, 1964 [1966]) Soul Night/Live! (Prestige, 1964 [1966]) Tell It... (Prestige, 1964 [1967]) 'Gator Tails (Verve, 1964) [also released as Willis Jackson] Smoking with Willis (Cadet, 1965) Soul Grabber (Prestige, 1967) Star Bag (Prestige, 1968) Swivelhips (Prestige, 1968) Gator's Groove (Prestige, 1968) Mellow Blues (Upfront, 1970) Recording Session (Big Chance, 1970) Gatorade (Prestige, 1971) West Africa (Muse, 1973) Headed and Gutted (Muse, 1974) The Way We Were (Atlantic, 1975) Funky Reggae (Trip, 1976) In the Alley (Muse, 1976) Plays with Feeling (Cotillion), 1976 The Gator Horn (Muse, 1977) Bar Wars (Muse, 1977) Single Action - with Pat Martino (Muse, 1978) Lockin' Horns - with Von Freeman (Muse, 1978) In Chateauneuf du Pape (Black and Blue, 1980) - also released as Ya Understand Me? (Muse, 1980) Nothin' Butt (Muse, 1980) Plays Around With Hits (Jazz Trip), 19?? On My Own (Whiskey, Women, And ... Record Company), 1986 compilation of fifties tracks The Best Of Willis Jackson Volume One - Gator's Groove (Ace), 1988 compilation of Prestige recordings Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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