Keefe Jackson

Keefe Jackson (* in Fayetteville , Arkansas ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( tenor saxophone , bass clarinet , hybrid trumpet with saxophone mouthpiece).

Live and act

Keefe Jackson reportedly began learning the cello at the age of three; after coming into contact with jazz, he played tenor saxophone from the age of ten. At the age of 15 he was already performing in local night clubs. After studying briefly at the University of Arkansas , he moved to Portland, Maine , where he played in local jazz, rock and funk bands. In 1998 he returned to his hometown of Fayetteville to take care of his terminally ill mother. In 2001 he moved to Chicago and became active in the local improvisation scene, including a. with Ken Vandermark , Boris Hauf , Dave Rempis , Marc Unternährer ( Chicago Luzern Exchange ) and the formation Lucky 7's . In 2005 he presented his debut album Several Lights ; tours in the United States and Europe followed.

In 2005 Jackson founded the formation Fast Citizens ( Ready Everyday , Delmark Records , 2005/6) with Aram Shelton , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Josh Berman , Anton Hatwich and Frank Rosaly , which produced other albums with the same line-up under the direction of Shelton and Lonberg- Holm submitted. Another of Jackson's band projects is Project Project ( Just Like This , 2007). In the field of jazz he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 2004 and 2011, apart from the aforementioned with Paul Hartsaw , Guillermo Gregorio and Jason Stein , where he also played the double bass clarinet. With his project Likely So , consisting only of woodwinds , to which Mars Williams , Wacław Zimpel , Marc Stucki, Dave Rempis , Peter A. Schmid and Thomas KJ Mejer belong, he performed at the Jazzwerkstatt Festival in Bern in 2013 .

Discographic notes

Just Like This (Delmark, 2007, with Josh Berman, Jaimie Branch , Jeb Bishop , Nick Broste , James Falzone , Jason Stein, Guillermo Gregorio, Dave Rempis, Anton Hatwich , Marc Unterstahrer, Frank Rosaly)
Lucky 7s: Pluto Junkyard ( Clean Feed Records , 2007, with Josh Berman, Jeb Bishop, Jeff Albert , Jason Adasiewicz , Matthew Golombisky , Quin Kirchner )
Seeing You See (Clean Feed Records, 2008), with Jason Roebke , Noritaka Tanaka
Boris Hauf / Steven Hess / Keefe Jackson / Juun - Proxemics (Creative Sorces, 2011)
A Round Goal (Delmark, 2013)
Peter A. Schmid: Chicago Conversations (2015)
Rows and Rows (Delmark, 2016), with Jason Adasiewicz

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography
↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (Online, August 25, 2013)

personal data
SURNAME	Jackson, Keefe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fayetteville , Arkansas

[1] Tom Lord: Jazz Discography

[2] Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (Online, August 25, 2013)