Illinois Jacquet
tenor saxophone
Tenor saxophonist of the swing era; Barry recorded with him as a sideman on dates produced by Don Schlitten.
- mentions
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- recordings
- 1
- Barry speaking
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What Barry says
Asked whether he had played with Jacquet, Dexter Gordon or James Moody before the record dates Don Schlitten produced, Barry says those dates were his opportunity to do it; he had always dug those players, so it was a nice chance.
In his own words
The dates were the opportunity to do that. Of course it was nice, because you always dug those people, so it was a nice opportunity.
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
On Bill Evans and other pianists
- 3:58
On the 1940s, when Bird started small groups because in the big bands you played the same solo over and over: Jacquet played a solo that every tenor player had to know or lose his job.
In the interviews and notes
Barry says Schlitten’s sessions were what gave him the chance to play with the likes of Jacquet, Dexter Gordon and James Moody, players he had always admired; his other work with Dexter and Moody amounted to a concert and a few things over the years.
Panken lists Jacquet among the leaders Barry spurred on as a sideman on Schlitten’s dates for Prestige, MPS, Muse and Xanadu, from the mid-1960s into the early 1980s, alongside Dexter Gordon, Jimmy Heath, Sonny Stitt and Al Cohn.
Schlitten believes many of Barry’s partnerships on record came about only because he produced those leaders and hired Barry for the piano chair; without that, he doubts Barry would ever have played with Jacquet or Al Cohn.
Ted Panken (interviewer); Tommy Flanagan, Tommy Flanagan ¶162
Schermer names Jacquet among the leading players who came through Detroit when Barry was coming up there, playing gigs and trading ideas with the local musicians.
Recordings that name them
Barry’s performances and records in the archive that credit or name them.
- ILLINOIS JACQUET - Sassy2017, 6 min YouTube
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.