Milt Jackson - The Early Years 1945-52Milt Jackson is best known as the long time vibraphone player with The Modern Jazz Quartet, one of the most important and longest established ensembles in post war jazz. However, in the seven years prior to that group's first formal recordings under that name in 1952, Milt Jackson recorded with some of the most significant and influential names in the genre, developing the musical concepts, techniques and partnerships which helped from the basis of

ARTARIA 2 is a virtuosic tour de force of breathtaking double reed sounds

This double CD covers five full years of rocking out

It's a reasonably comprehensive overview of his influential early work

I'll Get Long Somehow"

Mississippi label

honing their skills in a variety of guises on an equally bewildering array of record labels

which encompassed all his fifteen country and pop hits as a solo artists and also the nine pop and country hits he had recording duets with the pop artist Margaret Whiting at the start of the 1950s

Private Musicke

"You Might Have Belonged To Another"

- This 77-track collection comprises a fairly significant proportion of the 130 or so A and B sides released on the Gotham and Savoy labels during this era

the Human League

encompassing both studio and 'live' recordings as she recorded first for the Bethlehem label and then for Colpix