title: Quentin Jackson
text: # 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)
  