Jazz Articles about Dewey Jackson

About Dewey Jackson

Album Review

Dewey Jackson: Live at The Barrel, 1952

Read "Live at The Barrel, 1952" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
July 26, 2007

1952 wasn't that long ago, was it? When you look at jazz, it seems like only yesterday. Many of the same items that piqued our senses back then exist in today's art & entertainment world. The songs on this album are still popular today. The musical arrangements, ensemble interplay leading to solos around the room and fours by the drummer, are still in use today. Improvisation is still as much fun, and live audiences still enjoy a party atmosphere. True, ...

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Album Review

Dewey Jackson: Live at the Barrel 1952

Read "Live at the Barrel 1952" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
April 12, 2007

An exact contemporary of Louis Armstrong, St. Louis trumpet player Dewey Jackson (1900-1966) claimed that his favorite players of the instrument were Louis Desvigne, Johnny Dunn and Tommy Ladnier. Approximately one percent of you are nodding your heads sagely at this point, saying, “Ah, another trumpeter from the Desvigne-Dunn-Ladnier school of jazz; marvelous," while the rest of us (myself included, sadly) are nonplussed.Live at the Barrel 1952 is nevertheless not only for the archivists and other members of ...