Ali Jackson

Bassist Ali Jackson is best known for playing on a session led collaboratively by trumpeter Wilbur Harden and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, well worn in its reissue and repackaging utilization, innovative in its use of African and Arabic musical motifs. The same can be said for some of the material also recorded for the Savoy label in the same period by inspired bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, again featuring Jackson in the rhythm section as well as highlighted by a presentation of the bassist's composition entitled "Prayer to the East." A morsel of the ...