Prestige Sold It as Bossa Nova. Willis Jackson's Session Was Half Cuban Percussion, Half Showtune, and Only One Tune Was His.

On October 30, 1962, tenor saxophonist Willis "Gator" Jackson went into Rudy Van Gelder's Englewood Cliffs studio for Prestige with a rhythm section that could have cut a blues-drenched soul-jazz date: Tommy Flanagan on piano, Kenny Burrell on guitar, Eddie Calhoun on bass, Roy Haynes on drums. Prestige instead issued the result as Bossa Nova Plus, riding the fad. What the six tracks actually hold is a Cuban standard ("Cachita"), a Tin Pan Alley-style showtune ("What Kind of Fool Am I"), a pop hit of the season ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco"), and a single Jackson original, "Shuckin'." Three percussionists, Juan Amalbert, Montego Joe and Jose Paulo, supply the Latin color. The Prestige discography also credits Paulo with a second guitar and Haynes with cabasa, details other listings drop. The album was later reissued under the name of that one original, Shuckin'.