I Can't Get Started
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"...recently bought ...'Can't Get Started"...we are so thrilled with the music that we have just ordered two more copies, to be given to friends. Have been listening to harmonica music for better than 60 years, you are the greatest." George KAPLAN
Julian Jackson
Featured soloist of Oscar winning soundtrack "The Full Monty"
Julian Jackson was brought up in a musical family in Liverpool & as a student was Hohner British Harmonica Champion for three years running.
Julian moved to London to become the only Harmonica player to ever study at both The Guildhall School Of Music & The Royal Academy of Music. His unique style & ability at both jazz & classical Harmonica has won him the recognition of many musicians & composers including jazz pianist Julian Josephs, and Jazz legend "Toots" Thielemans.
Julian played in the touring quintet of Julian Joseph who commented "his playing has great soul and great melodic content and logic".
Julian's influences include Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane Larry Adler & "Toots" Thielemans. Julian has been fortunate to study with "Toots", who gave Julian one of his personalised Harmonicas. The only other person to have received one of these is Quincy Jones.
Julian has been active in the session scene for,film, television, radio & other artists CDs...
* Anthony Hopkins produced film "August"
* Featured soloist on the Oscar winning soundtrack for the 'The Full Monty'
* Colin Firth film 'Hope Springs'
* TV ads for the beer Stella Artois, for which he plays an excerpt of Verdi's 'Force of Destiny'
* Tracks for SONY's Meja Beckmans album out in 2004
* Tracks for Claire Martin's 2004 release
* Upcoming film release 'Win Dixie' soundtrack will also feature Julian
Live appearances include featured soloist at the World Harmonica Federation in Germany in November 2005.
The Piano Trio that plays in The Julian Jackson Quartet is the Tim Lapthorn Piano Trio:- Tim Lapthorn, piano; Tom Herbert, bass and Patrick Levett, drums.
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I Can\'t Get Started
author: Peter Carras
The CDs I ordered were all harmonica oriented. I taught myself on a
Marine Band and joined Mr. Jacob and his children on the stoop of a
tenement. Bless his heart.He taught his children well, and I went along for
the ride and the best time a kid could have for $ 1.05.(the going price for a
MB in those days).
That was in the Bronx, N..Y.
I have gone through a lot of harmonicas but still Have that Marine Band
and I still play it in rotation with my other Harpes. I\'.ve got a Hohner CX
12, 64 Chromatic harmonica, and a lot of 10. 12 holes All chromatics
.and a Hohner birth Certificate. I have been looking for a CD with a first
class Harmonica player . Amazon came up with a fine jazz ensemble
,harmonica with Julian Jackson on the harmonica. Bunny Berigan was
a fraternity brother of mine and \" I can\'t get started \" is one of my very
favorites.Just try and find that CD somewhere else. Julian Jackson
Quartet Tim Lampthorn : piano, Tom Herbert: bass, Patrick Levett:
drum s I was promised delivery on the 29 th and I was playing them that
evening.Beautifully packaged and arrived in great shape.
Peter
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I can't get started
author: Barry Watson
Hi
I know Julian as I am a fellow Jazz Chromatic Harmonica player, although i tenn to favour the great American song book with a Jazz flavour, rather than pure Jazz numbers.
This album by Julian is terriffic.
He is a highly gifted player.
Barry Watson.
Westerham, Kent.
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BETTER THAN GREAT
author: George KAPLAN
recently bought ...can't get started...we are so thrilled with the music that we have just ordered two more copies, to be given to friends, Have been listening to harmonica music for better than 60 years, you are the greatest.
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...a highly impressive performance on this lively, intelligently programmed albu
author: Chris Parker
With three successive Hohner Harmonica Championships, periods of study at both the Guildhall and Royal Academy, and encouragement from Toots Thielemans and Julian Joseph behind him, Liverpudlian Julian Jackson can reasonably claim to be in the first rank of jazz harmonica players, and this album contains ten great showcases for his extraordinary gift.
Like other performers on 'unusual' jazz instruments (a good parallel might be Richard Galliano on accordion), he impresses initially courtesy solely of his amazing technique, but such surprise quickly gives way to admiration for his fecund musical imagination, an improvisational bent that results in punchy versions of standards such as the album's lengthy title track and 'Autumn Leaves', and an ability to extract genuine emotion (often courtesy of an affecting 'dying fall' at the ends of phrases) from ballads ('Alfie' and Bill Evans's 'Laurie').
With sterling support from a sparky band (pianist Tim Lapthorn, bassist Tom Herbert and drummer Patrick Levett), Jackson turns in a highly impressive performance on this lively, intelligently programmed album.
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