Quentin Jackson

Quentin "Butter" Jackson^[1] (January 13, 1909 in Springfield, Ohio – October 2, 1976 in New York City) was an American jazz trombonist. In the early stage of his career, he worked with Cab Calloway. Later, he was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and worked with Charles Mingus, Kenny Burrell, and others.

On her album Dinah Sings Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington did a version of Bessie Smith's "Trombone Cholly" with Jackson on the horn, under the title "Trombone Butter".

Discography[]

With Louis Armstrong

• Louis Armstrong and His Friends (Flying Dutchman/Amsterdam, 1970)

With Dorothy Ashby

• The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby (Atlantic, 1965)

With Count Basie

• Basie at Birdland (Roulette, 1961)
• The Legend (Roulette, 1961)
• Back with Basie (Roulette, 1962)
• Basie in Sweden (Roulette, 1962)

With Kenny Burrell

• Blues - The Common Ground (Verve, 1967–68)
• Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Fantasy, 1975)

With Duke Ellington

• (GNP Crescendo)
• Ellington '55 (Capitol)
• Ellington at Newport (Columbia 1956)
• All Star Road Band (Doctor Jazz, 1957 [1983])
• Newport 1958 (Columbia 1958)
• Blues in Orbit (Columbia)
• Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia, 1959)

With Ella Fitzgerald

• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (Verve, 1957)

With Johnny Hodges

• Ellingtonia '56 (Norgran, 1956)
• Duke's in Bed (Verve, 1956)
• The Big Sound (Verve, 1957)
• Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (Verve, 1961)
• 3 Shades of Blue (Flying Dutchman, 1970)

With Milt Jackson

• For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)

With Quincy Jones

• I Dig Dancers (Mercury, 1960)
• Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits (Mercury, 1963)
• Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (Mercury, 1964)
• Golden Boy (Mercury, 1964)
• Quincy Plays for Pussycats (Mercury, 1959-65 [1965])

With Herbie Mann

• Latin Mann (Columbia, 1965)
• Our Mann Flute (Atlantic, 1966)

With Freddie McCoy

• Listen Here (Prestige, 1968)

With Charles Mingus

• The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note, 1962 [1994])
• The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963)
• Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1963)
• Epitaph (Columbia, 1989)

With Wes Montgomery

• Movin' Wes (Verve, 1963/1997)

With Shirley Scott

• For Members Only (1963)
• Great Scott!! (1964)
• Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands (Impulse!, 1966)

With Jimmy Smith

• Hoochie Coochie Man (Verve, 1966)
• Peter & The Wolf (Verve, 1966)

With Clark Terry

• Duke with a Difference (Riverside, 1957)

With Dinah Washington

• The Swingin' Miss "D" (1956)
• Blue Gardenia
• Dinah Sings Bessie Smith (1956–57)

With Billy Strayhorn

• Cue for Saxophone (Felsted, 1959)

With Randy Weston

• Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
• Highlife (Colpix, 1963)

References[]

External links[]

• All Music
• Quentin "Butter" Jackson papers and artifacts, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University