Preston Jackson

Preston Jackson ( * as James Preston McDonald on January 3, 1902 in New Orleans); † November 12, 1983 in Blytheville (Arkansas ) was an American jazz trombonist of the New Orleans Jazz and Chicago jazz.

Life and work

Preston Jackson came to Chicago in 1917, but began playing in 1920 as a trombonist. His teachers were the early 1920s, Roy Palmer and Honore Dutrey. For Dutrey he played alternatively in King Oliver's famous band. In the 1920s, he also plays Tig Chambers, Al Simone, Eli Rice and Art Sims, and was involved in recordings by Bernie Young and his Creole Jazz Band (1923 ) and Richard M. Jones. Under his own name he took in 1926 with his band Uptown, who was also the trumpeter Shirley Clay.

In the 1930s he played with Dave Peyton (1930 ), Erskine Tate, Louis Armstrong ( 1931-32 ), Half Pint Jaxon (1933 ), Carroll Dickerson, Jimmy Bell, Jimmie Noone, Roy Eldridge, Walter Barnes, Johnny Long (1939 ) and Zilmer Randolph's WPA Band. He had also been playing Johnny Dodds last recordings in 1940.

In the 1940s he appeared not as often; However, his career was not until the late 1950s; he played in this time with Lil Hardin Armstrong. In the 1960s, he moved back to his hometown of New Orleans, where it plays at Preservation Hall. He worked there with Little Brother Montgomery in 1969 and with the New Orleans Joymakers by Kid Thomas, with whom he appeared in Europe in 1973/74.

Recordings with Preston Jackson under his own name originated in 1926 and 1946; In 1972 he recorded an album with Benny Waters.