American jazz 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]
^ 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.
^ Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians Archived 2015-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 9 July 2013.
^ 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 .
^ a b 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .