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Jack Wilkins: Windows
ByJack Wilkins
saxophone, tenor1944 - 2023

Johnny Smith
guitar1922 - 2013

Wes Montgomery
guitar1923 - 1968

Grant Green
guitar1935 - 1979
The cause of Windows' long spell in purgatory was that following Bob Shad's passing in 1985, Mainstream was acquired by Sony, who sat on it for decades. This despite the fact that Mainstream's spiritual-jazz / freedom-jazz catalogue is on a par with those of its contemporaries Strata-East, Impulse and Muse. Sony's inaction was a crime against jazz. Things only picked up when Shad's grandson, film-maker Judd Apatow, bought back the rights and licensed Solid's and WeWantSounds' reissue programmes.
Windows began to develop cult status with a new generation of listeners in 1993, when A Tribe Called Quest included a sample of the album's slow-funk

Freddie Hubbard
trumpet1938 - 2008

Chick Corea
piano1941 - 2021

Wayne Shorter
saxophone1933 - 2023

John Coltrane
saxophone1926 - 1967
Mike Moore
trumpetWindows cannot be said to have broken any new ground, but it dug deep into previously charted territory and it still makes for glorious listening. Its reissue is a major event. So too are WeWantSounds' other Mainstream releases" data-original-title="" title="">Buddy Terry's Awareness (1971),

Harold Land
saxophone, tenor1928 - 2001
Track Listing
Side A: Windows; Naima; Canzona. Side B: Pinocchio; Red Clay; Song For The Last Act.
Personnel
Jack Wilkins
saxophone, tenorJack Wilkins: electric guitar (A1-3, B1, B2), acoustic guitar (B3); Mike Moore: acoustic bass (A1-3, B1, B3), Fender bass (B2); Bill Goodwin: drums, percussion.
Album information
Title: Windows | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: WEWANTSOUNDS
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