Get Down With That ‘Jersey Bounce’!
Carrie Jackson is a producer, arranger, actor, educator, sweet soul purveyor, a beboppin’ scatter, blues belter, music-biz exec and now a bouncer. No, not a nightclub bouncer, but the artist behind the new album, Jersey Bounce where she takes songs by The Beatles (“And I Love Him”), Bruce (“Fire”) and Al Green (“Let’s Stay Together”) and makes them her own.
Jackson first started singing at age six in the children’s choir of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Newark, went to Weequahic High School and studied her predecessors who came out of Newark like Wayne Shorter, Woody Shaw, James Moody and Ike Quebec. She starred in the Fats Waller musical Ain’t Misbehavin’ at the Villagers Theater in New Brunswick, and has been a frequent guest on WBGO Jazz Radio.
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