Get Down With That ‘Jersey Bounce’!

Carrie Jackson 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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Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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