D. D. Jackson

Chops and gravy

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 12/1/2002

Well-educated jazz pianists tend to play like well-educated pianists — all chops and no gravy. Canadian-born Brooklynite D. D. Jackson proves that this does not have to be the case. His classical and jazz training, which includes music degrees from Indiana University and the Manhattan School of Music, shows up in an effortless, precise technique and an

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