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Dewey Jackson

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Legendary trumpeter Dewey Jackson was born just a few weeks before Louis Armstrong in June of 1900, but unlike Satchmo, Jackson rarely left his native St. Louis. Interestingly, for being one of St. Louis' marquee jazz names of the 20s and establishing a legacy that lasted for decades, Jackson was rarely recorded. Jackson played a year with ragtimer George Reynold's Keystone Band before joining Charlie Creath and alternated between the Creath,and Fate Marable bands on the famed riverboats. He went on to lead his own groups, most notably the Peacock Orchestra, before briefly joining the first Cotton Club band in New York. Jackson recorded for Vocallion in 1926, with Creath for Okeh in '27 and with bassist Singleton Palmer

Album

Live at the Barrel 1952

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: That's A Plenty; Bucket's Got a Hole in It; Bugle Call Rag; St. James Infirmary; Tiger Rag; Tishamingo; High Society; Maple Leaf Rag; When the Saints Go Marching In; Royal Garden Blues.

Album

Live at The Barrel, 1952

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: That

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Article: Album Review

Dewey Jackson: Live at The Barrel, 1952

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


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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Dewey Jackson: Live at the Barrel 1952

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


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 ...


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