IJS & Greg Burrus Present Carrie Jackson & Her Trio

ABOUT CARRIE JACKSON

CARRIE JACKSON is a metropolitan area based vocal stylist and rekindles thoughts of America's great jazz history. Carrie credits her mentors the great ladies of jazz, Sarah “Sassy” Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, and others as a primary musical influence for her style, which indelibly helped shape vocal jazz for every generation ... to these extraordinary ladies. Carrie attributes her vocal style of singing from her mentors and made them a part of her also bringing new horizons to this classical American art form called Jazz. The truth is that she has a bit of all of them and more that is uniquely her own style and proudly carries the jazz banner.

Carrie is a vocalist stylist performer and honed her skills in her hometown, Newark, NJ in the cultural jazz mecca of performing arts while performing throughout the USA, and abroad, she spreads, shares her joy and well-honed expertise to the stage.

Ms. Jackson with her multifaceted singing style can harmonize swing, scat, swings classic jazz standards with sweet soul, wail the blues, cabaret, pop tunes, ballads, or Gospel, all complimented by her engaging stage presence and graceful moves. Carrie has a wide range with a strong command of the classic elements of jazz vocalizing. She is a gifted lyricist, has great timing and truly sings from her heart and is comfortable performing with a Small Ensemble, Big band and or Orchestra. z clubs, sounds supremely comfortable playing the tenor."

THIS VERSATILE performer has sung with many different groups, and leads her own groups, she has been a guest vocalist for a variety of occasions including live radio and television as an artist and events around the world touring abroad and in the USA in years before and since.

Ms. Jackson is President / CEO Mo-Jazz LLC, former President C-Jay Recording & Productions, Inc. former, Music Director, New Jersey Jazz Society, current member New Jersey Jazz Society Board of Directors, former Treasurer of International Women in Jazz, NYC, former Director, Jazz Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, currently Community Advisory Board Member WBGO Radio in the Great City of Newark. Director, current Director of the Jazz Vocal Collective, NJ, teaches singers vocal improvisational phrasing, live recording, and performance skills.

A few of the noted venues and clubs in the metropolitan area where she has performed in are as follows: Birdland, NYC, Blue Note, NYC, 92ND Street Y, NY, Marcus Garvey Park, NYC, Grant’s Tomb, NJPAC, Dorthaan’s Place, SOPAC,The Loft, Newark Museum Jazz in the Garden Series, NJ, Union County Arts Center, Rahway, NJ, Bethany Baptist Church, Jazz Vespers, Newark, NJ, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, (NJPAC, Newark, NJ), Caveat De La Huchette, Paris, France, Espace's Jazz Club, Paris, France, Iridium Jazz Club, NYC, Zinc Bar, NYC, Metronome, NY, Schomburg Cultural Center, NYC, NY, Pier 59, NYC, Zanzibar Blue, Philadelphia, Pa, Shanghai Jazz, Madison, NJ, hway, NJ, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Puffin Cultural Art Forum, Teaneck, NJ, Deer Head Inn, Delaware Water Gap, Pa, Taj Mahal Casino & Resort Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ, Clairidge Resorts & Casinos, Atlantic City, NJ Morris County College, Randolph, NJ, Union County College, Union, NJ, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, Seton Hall University, So. Orange, NJ, Drew University, NJ, Madison, NJ, Watchung Arts Center, NJ, Pa, Zanzibar Blue, Philadelphia, Pa, Metronome, NY, NY, Danny's Sky Light Room, NY, NY, Savannah Jazz & Blues Bistro, (Grand Opening Featured Artist) Bluffton, So. Carolina, The Jazz Corner, Hilton Head Island, So. Carolina.. and so much more, just to name a few!

Ms. Jackson has performed as an actress and dancer, for musical theater as a principal artist to include ‘AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ and NUNSENSE, and live Television and Radio programs. Carrie is always reaching for higher ground and Vista’s.

When she shines, you smile!

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The critics agree:

"Ms. Jackson is one of the most sought after vocalist's in the metropolitan area, her resume looks like a Who's, Who of Jazz..........Extraordinary! She Electrifies her audiences with her dynamic music and takes the audience by storm with her charm and temperament"........ Jerome Wilson, Cadence Jazz Magazine

"Carrie's wonderful low range, total command and interpretation of lyrics and an amazingly quick ability to run beautiful variations on a theme are gifts that have been possessed by only one or two artist's that I can think of-certainly Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan".....John Hoglund, Back Stage

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Booking Contact Info: Phone Direct: 973-818-0609

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