Jack Johnson (album)
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Jack Johnson is a studio album and soundtrack by the American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records.
Original LP (Columbia S 30455)
Subsequent reissues
Jack Johnson (right) fighting Tommy Burns for the World Heavyweight Championship in 1908
According to Robert Christgau, the recording was the "definitive showcase" for guitarist John McLaughlin (photographed in 1978).
Jack Johnson
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John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion. His 1910 fight against Jam
Jack Johnson (album)
…released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. The album was conceived by Davis for Bill Cayton's documentary of the same name, on the life of boxer Jack Johnson. Its two 25-minute-plus tracks were produced from recordings made on February 18 and April 7, 1970, at 30th Street Studio in New York City. Davis was…
Johnson in 1915
Johnson standing behind Choynski in Chicago in 1909
Jack Johnson, Sydney, c. 1908
Johnson in 1908 (photograph by Otto Sarony)