Quentin Jackson

Quentin "Butter" Jackson (born January 13, 1909 in Springfield, Ohio; died October 2, 1976 in New York City) was an American jazz trombonist. In the early stage of his career he worked with Cab Calloway and was in the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Later he did notable work with Charles Mingus, Kenny Burrell, and others.

On her album Dinah Sings Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington did a version of Bessie Smith's "Trombone Cholly" with Jackson on the horn, under the title "Trombone Butter".

Discography
With Dorothy Ashby With Count Basie With Kenny Burrell With Duke Ellington With Ella Fitzgerald With Johnny Hodges With Milt Jackson With Quincy Jones With Freddie McCoy With Charles Mingus With Wes Montgomery With Shirley Scott With Jimmy Smith With Clark Terry With Dinah Washington With Randy Weston
 * The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby (Atlantic, 1965)
 * Basie at Birdland (Roulette, 1961)
 * Blues - The Common Ground (Verve, 1967–68)
 * Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Fantasy, 1975)
 * Live At Newport 1956
 * Live At Newport 1958
 * Blues in Orbit (Columbia)
 * Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia, 1959)
 * Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, (Verve, 1957)
 * Johnny Hodges with Billy Strayhorn & the Orchestra, (1961)
 * For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
 * Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits, 1963 (2004)
 * Listen Here (Prestige, 1968)
 * The Complete Town Hall Concert (Blue Note, 1962 [1994])
 * The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse!, 1963)
 * Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Impulse!, 1963)
 * Epitaph (Columbia, 1989)
 * Movin' Wes (Verve, 1963/1997)
 * For Members Only (1963)
 * Great Scott!! (1964)
 * Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands (Impulse!, 1966)
 * Peter & The Wolf (Verve, 1966)
 * Duke with a Difference (Riverside, 1957)
 * The Swingin' Miss "D" (1956)
 * Blue Gardenia
 * Dinah Sings Bessie Smith (1956-57)
 * Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
 * Highlife (Colpix, 1963)