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Statements is an album by jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson
Milt Jackson
Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...

, released in 1962 on Impulse! Records
Impulse! Records
Impulse! Records was an American jazz record label, originally established in 1960 by producer Creed Taylor as a subsidiary of ABC-Paramount Records, based in New York City...

.

The CD reissue features a composition originally on an Impulse sampler as well as quintet recordings from 1964.

Track listing

  1. "Statements" (Milt Jackson) – 5:28
  2. "Slowly" (Kermit Goell, David Raksin) – 3:02
  3. "Thrill from the Blues" (Jackson) – 5:42
  4. "Put Off" (Jackson) – 5:34
  5. "Sonnymoon for Two" (Sonny Rollins
    Sonny Rollins
    Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...

    ) – 5:57
  6. "Bad and the Beautiful" (Raksin) – 3:07
  7. "Paris Blues" (Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

    ) – 2:54
  8. "Beautiful Romance" (Jackson) – 2:26
  9. "Blues for Juanita" (Jackson) – 5:38
  10. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
    I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
    "I Got It Bad " is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941...

    " (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
    Paul Francis Webster
    Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...

    ) – 2:38
  11. "Big George" (Jackson) – 4:43
  12. "Gingerbread Boy" (Jimmy Heath) – 3:41
  13. "Anything I Do" (Chester Conn
    Chester Conn
    Chester Conn , sometimes spelled Chester Cohn, was an American composer of popular music.Conn's best-known song is the jazz standard "Sunday", which he wrote with Jule Styne, Ned Miller, and Benny Krueger...

    , George Douglas) – 2:59

Personnel

  • Milt Jackson
    Milt Jackson
    Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...

     – vibraphone
  • Jimmy Heath
    Jimmy Heath
    James Edward Heath , nicknamed Little Bird, is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He is the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.-Biography:...

     – tenor saxophone
  • Tommy Flanagan
    Tommy Flanagan
    Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered for his work with Ella Fitzgerald...

     – piano
  • Hank Jones
    Hank Jones
    Henry "Hank" Jones was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics and musicians described Jones as eloquent, lyrical, and impeccable. In 1989, The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with the NEA Jazz Masters Award...

     – piano
  • Richard Davis – bass
  • Connie Kay
    Connie Kay
    Connie Kay was an American jazz drummer.Kay was a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet from 1955 until the group's dissolution in 1974...

     – drums