John Jackson (jazz musician)

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John Jackson (* around 1910, † 1984 ) was an American jazz musician ( alto saxophone , also clarinet ) of Kansas City jazz , whose tone was similar to that of Charlie Parker .

Live and act

Jackson played the clarinet with Teddy Wilson from the mid-1930s (" Pennies from Heaven ", with Billie Holiday ). Since autumn 1940 he was an alto saxophonist in Jay McShann's band , on whose recordings for Decca he participated ("Hootie Blues", with Charlie Parker, but also on the Parker composition "The Jumpin 'Blues", where he replaced Parker with the Played solo). In 1944 he moved to Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra , where he formed the "woodwind section" with Gene Ammons , Sonny Stitt , Dexter Gordon and Leo Parker . In early 1946 he recorded with Cootie Williams ("When My Baby Left Me", "Echoes Of Harlem"). Jackson was then involved in further recordings with Louis Jordan and Walter Brown until the end of the decade , in the field of jazz between 1936 and 1949 in 17 recording sessions. He was still part of the Kansas City jazz scene.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nathan W. Pearson Jr .: Goin 'to Kansas City . University of Illinois Press 1987; ISBN 0-252-01336-0 , p. 164
  2. ^ A b Ross Russell Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest 1983, p. 261
  3. ^ Frank Driggs , Chuck Haddix: Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop - A History . Oxford 2005; ISBN 0-19-530712-7 , p. 201
  4. ^ Frank Driggs, Chuck Haddix: Kansas City Jazz . Oxford 2005; P. 213
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 7, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH 1984