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Milt Jackson
real name Milton Jackson
Detroit, United States · 1923-01-01 – 1999-10-09
Milt Jackson is credited on 5,462 releases across 981 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
5,462
Credits
981
Albums
8
Decades active
601
In collections
Biography
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American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, composer and bandleader
Born January 1, 1923, Detroit, Michigan, USA, died October 9, 1999, New York City, New York, USA
Member of The Modern Jazz Quartet. He performed with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, Woody Herman, and John Coltrane, among others as well as in his own bands. Brother of Alvin Jackson.
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Credited work
5,462 releases · 981 albums · active 1950–2026
- Performance · 9,099
- Other credits · 146
- Production · 18
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey · Atlantic Studios · Montreux Jazz Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Saxophone Colossus
1957

2014 Forest Hills Drive
2014

Stakes Is High
1996

Night Train
1963

Buhloone Mind State
1993

Porgy And Bess
1959

Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud
1958

The Blues And The Abstract Truth
1961

Genius Of Modern Music
1951

Sunflower
1973

Ray Charles In Person
1960

Coltrane Plays The Blues
1962

The Heavyweight Champion - The Complete Atlantic Recordings
1995

Bags & Trane
1961

Bags' Groove
1957

Smackwater Jack
1971

Grape Jam
1968

Legrand Jazz
1958

Genius Of Modern Music Volume 2
1956

54 (The Prestige Recordings)
2024

The Smithsonian Collection Of Classic Jazz
1973

Soul Brothers
1958

Django
1956

So What
1998
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