Vibraphonist Milt Jackson's earliest recordings were made with Dinah Washington on her first releases on Apollo Records in Los Angeles in 1945. He also was among the first to perform bop with Dizzy Gillespie's Rebop Six in December '45 (Groovin' High) and with Gillespie's big band of 1946.
He recorded with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and many other impo…