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JAVON
JACKSON

Tenor Saxophonist · Composer · Educator

Javon Jackson with his tenor saxophone
Javon Jackson and his band
“Profound sensitivity and understanding.”
— DownBeat

DISCOGRAPHY

Jackson Plays Dylan album cover

Jackson Plays Dylan

2026 · Solid Jackson Records

The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni album cover

The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni

2022 · Solid Jackson Records

Déjà Vu album cover

Déjà Vu

2020 · Solid Jackson Records

For You album cover

For You

2018 · Solid Jackson Records

Expression album cover

Expression

2014 · Smoke Sessions

Lucky 13 album cover

Lucky 13

2012 · Solid Jackson Records

Celebrating John Coltrane album cover

Celebrating John Coltrane

2012 · Solid Jackson Records

Once Upon a Melody album cover

Once Upon a Melody

2008 · Palmetto

Now album cover

Now

2006 · Palmetto

Have You Heard album cover

Have You Heard

2005 · Palmetto

Easy Does It album cover

Easy Does It

2003 · Palmetto

GALLERY

Javon Jackson in a dark portrait with his tenor saxophone
Portrait — Solid Jackson Records
Javon Jackson portrait with tenor saxophone
Hartford, CT
Javon Jackson with Nikki Giovanni
With Nikki Giovanni

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Javon Jackson holding his tenor saxophone

About

Raised in Denver and forged in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Javon Jackson is one of the definitive tenor saxophonists of his generation — a Blue Note alumnus with more than twenty albums as a leader, collaborations from Elvin Jones to Nikki Giovanni, and the directorship of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz Studies at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School.

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