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Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Keep On A Blowin

Keep On A Blowin cover
RecordedMay 25, 1959 & Feb 26, 1960
LabelPrestige
CatalogPRLP 7172
Released1959
Personnel8 credited players
Discogsmaster 447066

The record

Jackson hollers over McDuff's swirling organ and Jennings' blues-soaked guitar lines on this 1959 Prestige session, congas from Buck Clark keeping the bottom thick. After-hours music made for a crowded room.

Session personnel

  • Milt Hinton — bass
  • Tommy Potter — bass
  • Wendell Marshall — bass
  • Buck Clark — congas
  • Alvin Johnson — drums
  • Bill Jennings — guitar
  • Brother Jack McDuff — organ
  • Willis Jackson — tenor saxophone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1960Prestige · PR 7172 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · laminated sleeve
Prestige · PR 7172 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Reissue · RVG stamp; laminated sleeve
1960Prestige · 45-178 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
1960Prestige · 45-178 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Promo
1960Prestige · 45-178 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Promo
1970Prestige — STEREO
1972Prestige · PRT 7830 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1999Prestige · PRCD-24218-2 — CD, Compilation

Follow the players

Milt Hinton also plays on

Tommy Potter also plays on

Wendell Marshall also plays on

Buck Clark also plays on