Javon Jackson Quartet | Dec 21 & 22

Dazzle welcomes back the Javon Jackson Quartet who will play two nights, Friday & Saturday, December 21 and 22 at 6:30 and 9 pm both evenings. A former member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers who also put in time with such jazz giants as Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton, and Ron Carter, Javon Jackson keeps the fires burning for straight-ahead jazz on his 20th release as a leader. “I’m a product of all that,” says the 53-year-old saxophonist-composer-educator. “I was raised in that experience of swinging, and that’s what I really have an appreciation for.”

Born on June 16, 1965, in Carthage, Missouri, Jackson was raised in Denver, Colorado and chose saxophone at the age of 10. At age 16 he switched from alto to tenor and later enrolled at the University of Denver before spending part of 1985–86 at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He left Berklee in 1986 to join Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, where he later played alongside pianist Benny Green, trumpeter Philip Harper, trombonist Robin Eubanks, and bassist Peter Washington. Jackson remained a fixture in the Jazz Messengers until Blakey’s passing in 1990.

Javon Jackson Quartet: Javon Jackson – Tenor Saxophone, Jeremy Manasia – Piano, David William – Bass, and McClenty Hunter – Drums

Dazzle @ Baur’s presents

Javon Jackson Quartet

Friday, December 21 – 6:30 & 9 pm

Saturday, December 22 – 6:30 & 9 pm

Tickets here!