Awards & Winners

D.D. Jackson

Date of Birth 25-January-1967
Place of Birth Ottawa
(Ontario, Ottawa Valley, Canada)
Nationality Canada
Profession Jazz Pianist, Composer, Teacher, Writer, Film Score Composer
D. D. Jackson is a Juno Award-winning jazz pianist/composer and composer for film, TV and media whose work spans 12 CDs as leader or co-leader featuring almost entirely original material. He won the Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Instrumental in 2000 for his BMG solo piano disc ...so far. His most recent CDs are Serenity Song, Suite for New York, and Sigame, a Latin-tinged work featuring Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto. An alumnus of the Lehman Engel BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Jackson's theatre work includes the opera Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path on the former Canadian Prime Minister and the musical-comedy Depressed, Depressed written with Chicago City Limits veteran Carl Kissin. Jackson performs all over the world with his groups and has also appeared and recorded with some of the most distinguished names in jazz and beyond including: saxophonists David Murray, James Carter, Dewey Redman, James Spaulding and Oliver Lake; trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah; violinists Billy Bang and Regina Carter; bassists Art Davis, William Parker and Ray Drummond; drummers Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Jack Dejohnette, Billy Hart, Andrew Cyrille, Cindy Blackman and Dafnis Prieto; and percussionists Mor Thiam and Mino Cinelu. He is also an accomplished classical pianist and recently released a recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on Summit Records. For five years, Jackson also wrote a regular column for Downbeat magazine entitled “Living Jazz” and maintained the related “D.D. Jackson Living Jazz Podcast”. Jackson is also an alumnus of the Manhattan Producers Alliance, an organization of active producers, engineers and composers writing for film & TV, and was one of the composers for the children's TV show The Wonder Pets, which recently won its 4th consecutive Emmy for "Outstanding Musical Direction and Composition", and 3rd & Bird!, both produced by Little Airplane Productions. He also scored the entire 26-episode season of The Ocean Room, a children's TV show produced in Canada by Sinking Ship Productions, which won the 2010 Gemini Award for Best Pre-School Series. His most recent score for film is Hollywood Musical, directed by Alex. P. Baack, for which he also wrote songs with Baack as lyricist.

Awards by D.D. Jackson

Check all the awards nominated and won by D.D. Jackson.

2004


Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year Suite For New York

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year Sigame

2000


Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year
Honored for : ...so far

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year ...so far

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year Paired Down - Volume One

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year Peace Song