LP-754

Illinois Jacquet – Spectrum

Released 1965

Recording and Session Information

Russell Jacquet, trumpet; Illinois Jacquet, tenor saxophone; Patti Bown, piano; George Duvivier, bass; Grady Tate, drums; Candido Camero, conga drum
RCA Recording Studios, New York, April 29 1965

13905 Big Music
13906 Black Foot
13907 Blues for Bunny
13908 Blue Horizon

Ernie Royal, Jimmy Nottingham, trumpet; Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Lucas, tenor saxophone; Haywood Henry, baritone saxophone; Ed Stoute, piano; Billy Butler, Eric Gale, guitar; Leonard Gaskin, bass; Herbie Lovelle (d) Bert Keyes arr,conductor
RCA Recording Studios, New York, April 30 1965

13909 Goin' out of my head
13910 Spanish boots
13911 Elise
13912 I remember her so well
13913 Now and them

Track Listing

Goin' Out Of My Head	Randazzo / Weinstein	April 29 1965
Spanish Boots	Don Menza	April 29 1965
Elise	Michel LeGrand	April 29 1965
I Remember Her So Well	Halletz / Coburn / English	April 29 1965
Now And Then	Ortolani / Newell	April 30 1965
Blues For Bunny	Russell Jacquet	April 30 1965
Black Foot	Russell Jacquet	April 30 1965
Big Music	Illinois Jacquet	April 30 1965
Blue Horizon	Edwin Stoute	April 30 1965

Liner Notes

JAZZ IS A MAN AND HIS HORN. Jazz is a man like Illinois Jacquet. This giant of a musician has traveled many roads, exploring and forming never-to-be-forgotten sounds.

When I look back to the early forties, I recall the sounds of Lester Young, Don Byas, Chu Berry, Ben Webster and Illinois Jacquet. Then, if I move my musical calendar forward in time, my memory fills with the names of Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Allen Eager, Flip Phillips, Gene Ammons, et al. And Illinois Jacquet's name still holds strong. The man and his music moved with the times. Today, as well as yesterday, the Jacquet style, the Jacquet tone, is an oasis of jazz.

In this album you get "spectrum" of music, music contemporary with the demands of today's record buying public. On my all-night show in Miami Beach, the listeners want sounds with a beat, a Latin sound and pretty music. The young set who grew up on rock and roll now dig jazz, but they need to feel a beat. This album caters to the basic needs of a cross-section of the American jazz public.

The five tunes on side one were all arranged by Bert Keyes — one of the top Rhythm and Blues arrangers in New York City. Bert's charts always emphasize strong rhythm and in these the beat is cooking throughout. The tunes on this side were chosen from a variety of bags. "Goin' Out Of My Head" was a big R&B hit for Little Anthony and the Imperials; "Spanish Boots" is a jazz composition of compelling force, and the other three compositions are from recent movies. Jacquet's robust tenor sax makes every track a personal triumph — now playing the melody straight, now weaving around and through the chord structure of a piece with tasty inventions.

Side two is more conventional — at least as far as instrumentation is concerned. Here, Illinois and his trumpeter brother, Russell, collaborate with a really broiling rhythm section. Patti Bown on piano, George Duvivier on bass, drummer Grady Tate, and conga drummer Candido lay down such a groovy foundation that you'd have to have advanced rigor mortis not to feel the excitement.

Russell Jacquet has worked in his brother's bands off and on since the forties, but now they live in opposite parts of the Country — Illinois in New York, and Russell alternating between Texas and Calitornia. Russell flew to New York specially for the session and it was swinging reunion.

Patti Bown. a young lady who plays a whole lot of piano keyboard, shares the solo space with Illinois and Russell and she makes sparks fly.

But Illinois Jacquet is the star. He is all "pro" and his horn is an instrument for creating musical joy. SPECTRUM is Illinois' fourth ARGO album; each has presented him in a different setting and he's come through like a champ each time.

—ALAN ROCK
THE ONLY JAZZ VOICE
WMBM AM & FM
MIAMI HEACH, FLORIDA