Javon Jackson
Javon Anthony Jackson ( born June 16, 1965 in Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri) is an American tenor saxophonist of modern jazz.
Life
Javon Jackson grew up in Cleveland and Denver and had as a child piano lessons. As a teenager, he moved to alto saxophone and then the tenor saxophone. He studied from 1984 to 1986 with Andy McGhee at Berklee College of Music and began his musical career with Geoff Keezer in the last edition of the Jazz Messengers before Art Blakey's death in 1991. He then worked with Louis Hayes, Benny Green, Freddy Cole, Winard Harper, Brian Lynch, Dianne Reeves, guitarist Henry Johnson, Nat Reeves, Cyro Baptista, Mickey Tucker as a sideman, as well as with Elvin Jones ( 1992), who has worked on his first album under his own name Me and Mister Jones, in December 1991 for the Criss Cross was born. As a result, Jackson took for the label to some more albums in which, inter alia, Christian McBride, Fred Wesley, James Williams, Lonnie Liston Smith and Mark Whitfield participated. For Blue Note with Dave Stryker, Larry Goldings and Billy Drummond in 1999 he took the album on Pleasant Valley. 2001 had Jackson with Freddie Hubbard's last album with New Colours. From 2000 to 2002 he was an All Star lineup, which appeared under the title of Joe Henderson Tribute and 2000 the album Thank You, Joe! had imagined. Jackson also worked with Joe Viola, Fareed Haque and Sam Newsome.
After Scott Yanow Jackson is heavily influenced by Joe Henderson. In his warm sound and his dramatic sophisticated solos reflect Martin Kunzler According also influences of Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt.
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- Me and Mister Jones ( Criss Cross, 1992)
- Burnin ' ( Criss Cross, 1991)
- A Look Within ( Blue Note, 1996)
- Good People ( Blue Note, 1997)
- Pleasant Valley ( Blue note, 1999)
- Esay Does It ( Criss Cross, 2002)
- Have You Heard ( Palmetto, 2004)
- Once Upon a Melody ( Palmetto, 2008)