Ira Jackson
tenor saxophone, piano
A tenor saxophonist who also played piano, still on the New York scene in 2000, who shared an unheated loft on Broad Street with Barry when Barry settled in New York.
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- recordings
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- Barry speaking
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What Barry says
Asked whether he lived with other musicians when he first settled in New York, Barry names Jackson first: a tenor saxophonist and pianist who was still on the New York scene. Harry Whitaker stayed there too, with a bass player whose place it more or less was, and a man who later took up the lute.
The place they shared was a cold-water loft on Broad Street, downtown near the Staten Island Ferry, heated only by a coal stove fed with scrap wood from a woodworking shop round the corner. Barry caught pneumonia there.
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In his own words
I was there with Ira Jackson, a fellow who plays tenor and piano, who is still around New York.
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Interview: Detroit and after
- 15:10
A ‘Jackson’ (captions ‘our Jackson’), perhaps Ira, named among young players Barry says he made play well.
In the interviews and notes
Barry lists Jackson, a tenor saxophonist and pianist still working in New York, first among the people he lived with in a loft on Broad Street after moving to the city, along with Harry Whitaker and a bass player.
Barry describes the loft as unheated except for a coal stove burning scrap wood, and says the cold gave him pneumonia.
Panken places the cold-water loft on Broad Street in the Financial District and dates Barry’s move to New York to 1960, when he joined Cannonball Adderley; a bout of pneumonia followed.
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