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For a sample of his live sound, click above to hear excerpts.
Craig jackson performs his mix of vocal and instrumental music, as a solo pianist/vocalist, one-man
band, duo, trio, or combo using your grand piano or his portable
keyboards.
Pianist/vocalist Craig Jackson is known as an award-winning composer and instrumentalist, but you will enjoy his jazzy style and smooth voice singing standards from Sinatra, Bennett, and Jobim as well as Michael Franks, Billy Joel, Elton John, Michael Buble', Santana, James Taylor, Eagles, and the Beatles. A new CD of original music with some original
arrangements of jazz
classicsis is soon to be released. To hear 5 tracks from this CD, visit or click
here: Craig Jackson has been a top audio
engineer/music producer/consultant for many studios, recorded local and national artists for over 35 years in Houston, Dallas, and Austin, TX. He has also performed at many of the finest hotels and restaurants
in the Houston/Clear Lake area. Studying Music Theory & Composition at North Texas State University Jazz School, he has composed numerous music scores for industrial films, documentaries and award-winning NASA films and exhibits. His musical documentary "Journey into Space", which he produced, directed, composed, performed, engineered and mixed all of the music, was featured on Showtime, The Movie Channel, VH-1, Nickelodeon and Hit Videos USA. After acheiving success on his own label, it was purchased by MCA Universal Home Video in 1987, and was available in Blockbuster Video for over 10 years. It received rave reviews in American Cinematographer, Cash Box, People and Video magazines, was nominated for a 1987 Billboard AFI Video Award, and won 1988 Best Foreign Film at the Fiera di Milano, Italy. Relocating here for CNN as Audio Designer in 2004, he performed every Fri-Sat for 100 weeks in Old Town Alexandria, VA., Wed-Thurs for 6 weeks at the Ballston Hilton, for the Washington Capitals Christmas Party, many private functions, and for 800+ people at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., for Professionals in the City 2006 New Year's Eve Parisian Gala. E-mail
for rates for restaurants/hotels and private functions. cjjazz88@yahoo.com An e-mail list of faithfull followers and promo materials
are available when booking. The cover art for his upcoming CD, "Expressions", is a painting by his uncle David Jackson, one of Houston's finest pianists.
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