Statements (album)

Statements is an album by jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson, released in 1962 on Impulse! Records.

Statements
Studio album by Milt Jackson
Released	1962
Recorded	December 14–15, 1961
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele, Michael Cuscuna
Milt Jackson chronology
Very Tall (1962) Statements (1962) Bags Meets Wes! (1962)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat (Original Lp release)
Allmusic

The CD reissue adds tracks 9–13 featuring a composition originally on an Impulse sampler as well as quintet recordings from 1964 also released on Jazz 'n' Samba.

Track listing

1. "Statements" (Milt Jackson) – 5:28
2. "Slowly" (Kermit Goell, David Raksin) – 3:02
3. "Thrill from the Blues" (Jackson) – 5:42
4. "Put Off" (Jackson) – 5:34
5. "Sonnymoon for Two" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:57
6. "Bad and the Beautiful" (Raksin) – 3:07
7. "Paris Blues" (Duke Ellington) – 2:54
8. "Beautiful Romance" (Jackson) – 2:26
9. "Blues for Juanita" (Jackson) – 5:38
10. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:38
11. "Big George" (Jackson) – 4:43
12. "Gingerbread Boy" (Jimmy Heath) – 3:41
13. "Anything I Do" (Chester Conn, George Douglas) – 2:59

Personnel

• Milt Jackson – vibraphone
• Jimmy Heath – tenor saxophone
• Tommy Flanagan – piano
• Hank Jones – piano
• Paul Chambers – bass
• Connie Kay – drums

Production

• Pete Turner – photography