The Milt Jackson Big 4

1975 live album by Milt Jackson

Live album by

Milt Jackson

Released

1975

Recorded

July 17, 1975

Genre

Jazz

Length

50:02

Label

Pablo

Producer

Norman Granz

Milt Jackson chronology

The Complete Last Concert
(1974)

The Milt Jackson Big 4
(1975)

The Big 3
(1975)

The Milt Jackson Big 4 is a live album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson featuring pianist Oscar Peterson recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Pablo label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Bags and O.P. always bring out the best in each other and this well-conceived set is no exception".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

"Fuji Mama" (Blue Mitchell) - 6:34
"Everything Must Change" (Bernard Ighner) - 6:21
"Speedball" (Lee Morgan) - 7:54
"Nature Boy" (eden ahbez) - 4:30
"Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 7:20
"Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy van Heusen) - 5:56
"Night Mist Blues" (Ahmad Jamal) - 6:36
"Mack the Knife" (Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) - 6:31

Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival at the Casino de Montreux in Switzerland on July 17, 1975

Personnel

References

^ Milt Jackson discography accessed February 2, 2012
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 2, 2012

Milt Jackson

Studio albums

Howard McGhee and Milt Jackson (1948)
Roll 'Em Bags (1949)
Meet Milt Jackson (1949)
Wizard of the Vibes (1952)
Milt Jackson Quartet (1955)
Opus de Jazz (1956)
Ballads & Blues (1957)
The Jazz Skyline (1956)
Plenty, Plenty Soul (1957)
Bags & Flutes (1957)
Soul Brothers (1958)
Bean Bags (1959)
Bags' Opus (1959)
Bags & Trane (1960)
The Ballad Artistry of Milt Jackson (1960)
Soul Meeting (1961)
Vibrations (1961)
Very Tall (1961)
Statements (1961)
Bags Meets Wes! (1961)
Big Bags (1962)
Invitation (1962)
For Someone I Love (1962)
Much in Common (1964)
Jazz 'n' Samba (1964)
In a New Setting (1964)
Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (1965)
Born Free (1966)
Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (1968)
Memphis Jackson (1969)
Reunion Blues (1971)
Sunflower (1972)
Goodbye (1973)
Olinga (1974)
The Big 3 (1975)
Quadrant (1977)
Ain't But a Few of Us Left (1981)
Two of the Few (1983)
Soul Route (1983)

Live albums

Milt Jackson Quintet Live at the Village Gate (1963)
Milt Jackson at the Museum of Modern Art (1965)
That's the Way It Is (1969)
Just the Way It Had to Be (1969)
The Milt Jackson Big 4 (1975)

With others

Quintet/Sextet (1956)
Bags' Groove (1957)
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1959)
Bags & Trane (1961)

Modern Jazz Quartet

Oscar Peterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Note: All-Star albums feature sideman who are not necessarily listed while titles which include "Oscar Peterson" or the OP Trio are usually shortened.

As
leader
or
co-leader

Plays series	Duke Ellington (1952) George Gershwin (1952) Harold Arlen (1954) Count Basie (1955)
1955–58	In a Romantic Mood (with Russ Garcia, 1955) At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956) At the Concertgebouw (1957) Soft Sands (with Buddy Bregman, 1957) Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957) My Fair Lady (1958) On the Town (1958) A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959) The Jazz Soul (1959) Swinging Brass (with Russ Garcia, 1959) Fiorello! (1960)
Plays the Songbook (1959)	Cole Porter Duke Ellington George Gershwin Harold Arlen Jerome Kern Richard Rodgers Porgy & Bess
The London House Sessions (1961)	Put On a Happy Face Something Warm The Sound of the Trio The Trio (Verve)
Trio & Guests	Very Tall (with Milt Jackson, 1961) Affinity (1962) Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (1962) Night Train (1962) West Side Story (1962) And Nelson Riddle (1963) Canadiana Suite (1964) Plays (1964) + One (with Clark Terry, 1964) We Get Requests (1964) Eloquence (1965) I/We Had a Ball (multiple groups, 1965) With Respect to Nat (1965) Blues Etude (1966) Soul Español (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple groups, 1967)
Exclusively for My Friends	Action (1963–64) Girl Talk (1965–68) The Way I Really Play (1967) The Lost Tapes (1967–68) Mellow Mood (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Travelin' On (1968)
1969–79	Hello Herbie (1969) Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969) Another Day (1970) Tracks (1970) Tristeza on Piano (1970) Walking the Line (1970) Great Connection (1971) In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971) Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971) In Tokyo (1972) Solo (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972) The trio (Pablo, 1973) In Russia (1974) The Giants (1974) The Good Life (1974) Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975) Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975) The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977) Jam – Montreux '77 (1977) The London Concert (1978) The Paris Concert (1978) Digital at Montreux (1979) Night Child (1979) Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)
With The Trumpet Kings	Roy Eldridge (1974) Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Jousts (1974) Harry Edison (1974) Clark Terry (1975) Jon Faddis (1975) At Montreux '75 (Eldridge, Gillespie & Terry, 1975) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980) The Alternate Blues (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)
1980–2004	Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Personal Touch (1980) A Royal Wedding Suite (1981) Nigerian Marketplace (1981) Face to Face (with Freddie Hubbard, 1982) Freedom Song (1982) A Tribute to My Friends (1983) If You Could See Me Now (1983) Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (multiple groups, 1983) Two of the Few (with Milt Jackson, 1983) Live! (1986) Time After Time (1986) Live at the Blue Note (1990) Saturday Night at the Blue Note (1991) Last Call at the Blue Note (1992) Encore at the Blue Note (1993) Side by Side (with Itzhak Perlman, 1994) The More I See You (1995) An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995) A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996) Oscar in Paris (1996) Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (1996) Oscar and Benny (with Benny Green, 1998) Summer Night in Munich (1998) Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (2000) A Night in Vienna (2004)