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Keefe Jackson

Keefe Jackson is a saxophonist/clarinettist/composer. He arrived in Chicago in 2001 from his native Fayetteville, Arkansas. He has performed with many musicians, including Tim Daisy, Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Jason Roebke, Guillermo Gregorio, Jim Baker, Brian Dibblee, Jason Adasiewicz, Mike Reed, Todd Munnik, James Falzone, Ernst Karel, Jason Stein, Nori Tanaka, Matt Schneider, Jason Ajemian, Tatsuya Nakatani, Josh Berman, Aram Shelton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Anton Hatwich, Frank Rosaly, Nick Broste, Paul Hartsaw, Karl Seigfried, Kevin Davis, and Swiss musicians Marc Unternährer, Thomas Mejer, and many others. Ongoing groups include the Lucky 7s (Farragut, Lakeside Digital), the 774th Street Quartet (A Rare Thing, Bloody Murder Records), the Chicago Luzern Exchange (Several Lights, Delmark Records), and the Festival Quartet (Festival Quartet, Aspidistra Records). He also leads the large group Keefe Jackson\'s Project Project.

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Album Review

Erb/Lonberg-Holm/Jackson/Reid: Duope

Read "Duope" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Fred Lonberg-Holm e Christoph Erb avevano già registrato in duo nel 2011 per l'interessante etichetta svizzera Veto Records/Exchange, gestita dallo stesso Erb, il CD Screw and Straw: ora la formula che abbinava violoncello e clarinetto basso (in quel caso anche sax tenore) viene semplicemente raddoppiata, con l'inserimento di Keefe Jackson ai clarinetti basso e contrabbasso, e di Tomeka Reid al violoncello. Ne nasce un singolare quartetto, un caleidoscopio di possibilità timbriche ed espressive, nonostante l'organico simmetricamente diviso tra due ance ...

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I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Keefe Jackson

Read "I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Keefe Jackson" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Luigi Nono--A Carlo Scarpa/A Pierre/Guai ai gelidi mostri (Edition RZ-1990). Nono è un grande esempio di come un artista ed il suo lavoro possano essere “politici" senza contraddizione tra l'essere artista e l'essere politico. Molti cambiamenti del ventesimo secolo sono profondamente ed in maniera esauriente riflessi nel suo lavoro. È sempre stimolante ascoltare la sua musica ed immaginare come questi suoni siano connessi alla sua percezione/visione del mondo. 02. Clusone 3-Soft Lights and Sweet ...

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Keefe Jackson’s Likely So: A Round Goal

Read "A Round Goal" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Anomalo, importante, problematico questo CD che testimonia una tappa ambiziosa nella ricerca dell'emergente Keefe Jackson. Registrato nel febbraio 2013 al Jazzwerkstatt Festival di Berna, vede la collaborazione fra tre improvvisatori chicagoani (Dave Rempis e Mars Williams oltre allo stesso Jackson), tre svizzeri (Thomas K. J. Mejer, Peter A. Schmid e Marc Stucki) e il polacco Waclaw Zimpel. La formazione è decisamente intrigante e poco usuale: un settetto di sole ance. Il pensiero corre automaticamente ai numerosi quartetti ...

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Keefe Jackson’s Likely So: A Round Goal

Read "A Round Goal" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Chicago based multi-instrumentalist and composer Keefe Jackson's intriguingly innovative live album A Round Goal is a modern choral symphony of sorts. Recorded during the Jazzwerkstatt festival in Berne Switzerland on February 20, 2013 Jackson utilizes, in lieu of human voices, woodwinds of various ranges creating brilliantly dramatic music. Western classical influences are apparent, throughout. On “There Is No Language Without Deceit" Polish clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel's agile, stimulating sonic dance emerges from a tightly woven backdrop of alternating refrains ...

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Multiple Reviews

Keefe Jackson and Aram Shelton: Seeing You See and Two Cities

Read "Keefe Jackson and Aram Shelton: Seeing You See and Two Cities" reviewed by Clifford Allen


The city of Chicago continues to find itself in a jazz renaissance well into the waxing years of the 21st century--a status that many of America's cities can't easily lay claim to. With the pedigrees of individual improvisers and composers like reedman Ken Vandermark and flutist Nicole Mitchell well established in the 1990s, a slightly younger generation of players has assembled things in their wake, on both the North and South Chicago axis.

The most individual voices to step out ...

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Keefe Jackson Quartet: Seeing You See

Read "Seeing You See" reviewed by Troy Collins


The vibrant Chicago jazz scene has been home to many impressive young artists, most of whom collaborate in a rotating roster of collective ensembles. This communal approach has yielded a deep pool of talented individuals intimately familiar with each other's working methods, providing them with a sort of regional shorthand. Multi-reedist Keefe Jackson is one such up and coming Windy City resident, whose striking quartet debut, Seeing You See is every bit as compelling as his work with his large ...

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project: Just Like This

Read "Just Like This" reviewed by Nic Jones


This one could almost be a working definition of what Delmark exists for, documenting as it does an aspect of Chicago's seemingly ever-evolving creative improvised music scene and in so doing giving further exposure to a group of musicians surely destined to make an impact far outside the city's environs.

If anything Jackson's writing for this large ensemble is even more telling than that of his work in smaller group contexts, hence from the off the galumphing “Dragon Fly" balances ...

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Recording

Keefe Jackson Quartet - Seeing You See (Clean Feed)

Keefe Jackson Quartet - Seeing You See (Clean Feed)

Source: Master of a Small House

Likening the Chicago jazz scene anatomy to an onion might seem like a ridiculous exercise in reduction, but it's also a way to symbolize the layered, intergenerational relationships that exist between the city's players. Hailing originally from Arkansas, reedist Keefe Jackson resides on the younger end of that populous spectrum, his industrious track record representative of the prevailing collaborative ethos. Fast Citizens, co-led by colleague Aram Shelton, arguably remains his highest profile ensemble thanks to an ongoing Delmark association. Jackson's ...

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Keefe Jackson's Project Project "Just Like This" Delmark CD Release Party- Feb 24 at Hungry Brain, Chicago

Keefe Jackson's Project Project "Just Like This" Delmark CD Release Party- Feb 24 at Hungry Brain, Chicago

Source: All About Jazz

Keefe Jackson and his “big band" - Project Project will celebrate his new Delmark Records release, “Just Like This" at the Hungry Brain on Chicago's north side - 10 pm, Sunday, February 24, 2008 Adventurous composer/saxophonist/clarinetist Keefe Jackson leads a big band of All star creative jazz players on the Chicago scene. Keefe Jackson - tenor sax Dave Rempis - alto and baritone sax Guillermo Gregorio - alto sax and clarinet Jason Stein - ...

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Delmark Records CD Release Parties: Sabertooth, Brad Goode, Keefe Jackson

Delmark Records CD Release Parties: Sabertooth, Brad Goode, Keefe Jackson

Source: All About Jazz

Hey hey friends of Delmark - Wishing you a happy and healthy Holiday Season! We'd love to see you out in the New Year to celebrate our new Delmark jazz and blues releases with the Sabertooth Jazz Quartet, Little Arthur Duncan (CD and DVD), Keefe Jackson's Project Project, and Brad Goode. These new releases follow hot on the heels of the highly acclaimed Ari Brown's Live at the Green Mill and Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble's Live at the Velvet ...

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Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens in Boston September 6

Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens in Boston September 6

Source: All About Jazz

Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens will perform Thursday, September 6th at 8pm, at the Fraternal Order of Eagles Lodge (15 Dana Ave, Hyde Park, MA 02136, 617-276-3223, themusicworkshop.blogspot.com) presented by Artists-at-Large. A donation of $10 is suggested.

The group's line-up is:

Keefe Jackson - tenor saxophone Josh Berman - cornet Aram Shelton - alto saxophone Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello Anton Hatwich - bass Frank Rosaly - drums

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

A Round Goal

Delmark Records
2014

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Duope

Veto Records
2014

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A Round Goal

Delmark Records
2013

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Seeing You See

Clean Feed Records
2010

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Duo

Unique Records
2009

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Just Like This

Delmark Records
2008

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