Artist: Illinois Jacquet
Genre(s):
Jazz
R&B: Soul
Discography:
The Man I Love
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Birthday Party
Year: 1999
Tracks: 5
One of the great tenors, Illinois Jacquet's 1942 "Quick Home" solo is considered the low gear R&B sax solo, and spawned a full propagation of jr. tenors (including Joe Houston and Big Jay McNeely) world Health Organization built their careers from his style, and practically from that one song.
Jacquet, whose aged brother Russell (1917-1990) was a trumpeter swan world Health Organization sometimes played in his bands, grew up in Houston, and his bad tincture and excited sound defined the Texas tenor school. After acting locally, he stirred to Los Angeles where, in 1941, he played with Floyd Ray. He was the star topology of Lionel Hampton's 1942 swelled band ("Quick Home" became a signature tune song for Jacquet, Hampton, and even Illinois Jacquet' successor Arnett Cobb), and too was with Cab Calloway (1943-1944) and well featured with Count Basie (1945-1946). Jacquet's acting at the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert (1944) included a screaming solo on "Blues" that found him biting on his reed to attain high-register personal effects; the herd went wild. He recurrent the musical theme during his appearance in the 1944 film forgetful Jammin' the Blues. In 1945, Jacquet put together his have band, and both his recordings and live performances were quite exciting. He appeared with JATP on several tours in the fifties, recorded steadily, and never genuinely bemused his popularity. In the sixties, he sometimes twofold on bassoon (unremarkably for a slow number such as "'Round Midnight") and it was an effective contrast to his stomping tenor. In the late '80s, Jacquet started in the lead an exciting part-time enceinte lot that only recorded one album, an Atlantic date from 1988. Through the days, Illinois Jacquet (whose periodic features on alto are rather influenced by Charlie Parker) has recorded as a leader for such labels as Apollo, Savoy, Aladdin, RCA, Verve, Mercury, Roulette, Epic, Argo, Prestige, Black Lion, Black & Blue, JRC, and Atlantic. Illinois Jacquet died on July 22, 2004.
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