Noah Jackson

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Noah Jackson (* 1988 ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass , composition , also cello ) of modern jazz .

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Jackson, who comes from Detroit, studied at Michigan State University under the direction of Rodney Whitaker until 2010, before completing his Masters at New York's Manhattan School of Music with Larry Ridley .

He was also active in the Detroit jazz scene from the late 2000s, where his first recordings were made in 2010 with RJ Spangler / Planet D Nonet ( We Travel the Spaceways ). Under his own name, he published the album Contemplations: A Suite , which was voted one of the ten best jazz albums of 2011 by Detroit Metro Times magazine . He also performed with his own formation at the Detroit Jazz Festival in 2012 . In 2013 he entered the competition for the Scott LaFaro Prize and received an Honorable Mention.

In the following years he played a. a. with Winard Harper , Branford Marsalis , Jason Marsalis , Hugh Masekela , Jazzmeia Horn , George Burton , JD Allen , Terence Blanchard , Keyon Harold , Ravi Coltrane , Gloria Gaynor and Abdullah Ibrahim ; He also toured in countries such as Oman, Angola, France, Belgium, Qatar and South Africa. Recordings were also made with the pianist Enoch Smith Jr. ( Misfits II: Pop ). As a musician, he made an appearance in the feature film Monica Z (2013, directed by Per Fly ), a biopic about Monica Zetterlund . With the quartet of Abdullah Ibrahim he recorded an improvised soundtrack for the film Mandela's Gun by John Irvin , which won the Harlem Film Festival Award for Best Soundtrack in 2018 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review: Contemplations: A Suite
  2. ↑ a b Noah Jackson. Smalls, February 16, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ International Society of Bassists
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 16, 2019)
  5. ↑ Monica Z in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Noah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH 1988