Chubby Jackson
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jazz
Jazz
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double-bassist and band leader.
Born in New York City
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, Jackson began at the age of seventeen as a clarinetist, but quickly changed to bass.
Jackson performed and/or recorded with Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
, Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor....
, Jan Savitt
Jan Savitt
Jan Savitt was an American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist....
, Henry Busse
Henry Busse
Henry Busse Sr. was a jazz trumpeter known for work with sweet bands and big bands.-Early life:Born May 19, 1894 to a generational German Band family. Henry Busse studied violin and then trumpet under his Oompah Band leader uncle...
, Charlie Barnet
Charlie Barnet
Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", "In a Mizz", and "Southland Shuffle".-Early life:...
, Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop.-Biography:...
, Charlie Ventura
Charlie Ventura
Charlie Ventura was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader.Ventura was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had his first successes working with Gene Krupa. In 1945 he won the Down Beat readers' poll in the tenor saxophone division...
, Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy...
, Bill Harris
Bill Harris (musician)
Bill Harris was a jazz trombonist.-Biography:Early in his career, Harris performed with Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, and Eddie Condon. He is renowned for his broad, thick tone and quick vibrato that remained for the duration of each tone. He went on to join Woody Herman's First Herd in 1944...
, Woody Herman
Woody Herman
Woodrow Charles Herman , known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders...
, Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also...
, Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano
Leonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist, composer and teacher of jazz improvisation. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres. He remains a somewhat overlooked figure in jazz history, but his enormous originality and dazzling work as an improviser have long...
and others. He is perhaps best known for his spirited work both with the Herman bands, and as a leader of his own bands, big
Big band
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and small.
In the 1950s, Jackson worked as a studio musician, freelanced, and hosted some local children's TV shows "Chubby Jackson's Little Rascals" which was seen weekday mornings on WABC TV Ch.7 in NYC from Monday March 23, 1959 to Friday July 14, 1961 and "The Chubby Jackson Show" Saturday afternoons on WABC TV Ch.7 from July 22, 1961 to August 5, 1961.
Jackson would host his last two kids' TV shows for WOR TV Ch.9 in NYC "Space Station Nine," which was seen weekday evenings from Monday January 1, 1962 to Friday January 26, 1962, and he briefly served as the fourth and last emcee of WOR TV's"Looney Tunes Show"/"The Chubby Jackson Show" weekday afternoons. The last series was seen from Monday January 12, 1962 to Friday June 14, 1962. (Information can be found on Jackson's local NYC kids TV shows in The NYC Kids Shows Round Up section of "TV Party.Com")
In 2000, Jackson was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.
He died in Rancho Bernardo, California (in the Poway
Poway, California
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area) at age 84.
His son Duffy Jackson is now a prominent jazz drummer and appeared in the 2008 film, "Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road (film)
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes, from screenplay by Justin Haythe, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates....
" as a 1950s musician.
His daughter Jaijai Jackson, noted radio personality and jazz promoter, created a social community dedicated to her father's contribution to jazz and the entertainment world entitled The Jazz Network Worldwide. This is where musicians from all over the world find each other and network with all the supporting roles of business that gives jazz its heartbeat.