Quentin Jackson
# Quentin Jackson

Quentin "Butter" Jackson (January 13, 1909 – October 2, 1976) was an American jazz trombonist.

## Career

In the early stage of his career, Jackson worked with Cab Calloway for eight years. Later, he was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and worked with Charles Mingus, Kenny Burrell, and others.

On her album Dinah Sings Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington recorded a version of Bessie Smith's "Trombone Cholly" with Jackson on the horn, under the revised title, "Trombone Butter".

## Discography

With Louis Armstrong

* Louis Armstrong and His Friends (Flying Dutchman/Amsterdam, 1970)

With Dorothy Ashby

* The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby (Atlantic, 1965)

With Count Basie

* Basie at Birdland (Roulette, 1961)
* The Legend (Roulette, 1961)
* Back with Basie (Roulette, 1962)
* Basie in Sweden (Roulette, 1962)

With Kenny Burrell

* Blues - The Common Ground (Verve, 1967–68)
* Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Fantasy, 1975)

With Duke Ellington

* The 1953 Pasadena Concert (GNP Crescendo)
* Ellington '55 (Capitol)
* Ellington at Newport (Columbia 1956)
* All Star Road Band (Doctor Jazz, 1957 [1983])
* Newport 1958 (Columbia 1958)
* Blues in Orbit (Columbia)
* Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia, 1959)

With Ella Fitzgerald

* Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (Verve, 1957)

With Johnny Hodges

* Ellingtonia '56 (Norgran, 1956)
* Duke's in Bed (Verve, 1956)
* The Big Sound (Verve, 1957)
* Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (Verve, 1961)
* 3 Shades of Blue (Flying Dutchman, 1970)

With Milt Jackson

* For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)

With Quincy Jones

* I Dig Dancers (Mercury, 1960)
* Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits (Mercury, 1963)
* Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (Mercury, 1964)
* Golden Boy (Mercury, 1964)
* Quincy Plays for Pussycats (Mercury, 1959-65 [1965])

With Herbie Mann

* Latin Mann (Columbia, 1965)
* Our Mann Flute (Atlantic, 1966)

With Freddie McCoy

* Listen Here (Prestige, 1968)

With Charles Mingus

* The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note, 1962 [1994])
* The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963)
* Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1963)
* Epitaph (Columbia, 1989)

With Wes Montgomery

* Movin' Wes (Verve, 1963/1997)

With Shirley Scott

* For Members Only (1963)
* Great Scott!! (1964)
* Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands (Impulse!, 1966)

With Jimmy Smith

* Hoochie Coochie Man (Verve, 1966)
* Peter & The Wolf (Verve, 1966)

With Clark Terry

* Duke with a Difference (Riverside, 1957)

With Dinah Washington

* The Swingin' Miss "D" (1956)
* Blue Gardenia
* Dinah Sings Bessie Smith (1956–57)

With Billy Strayhorn

* Cue for Saxophone (Felsted, 1959)

With Randy Weston

* Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
* Highlife (Colpix, 1963)
