{{Short description|American musician}} '''Franz Jackson''' (November 1, 1912 – May 6, 2008) was an American saxophonist and clarinetist of the Chicago jazz school.<ref>{{Cite web |title=FRANZ JACKSON |url=http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/franz-jackson |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=JazzMusicArchives.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Franz Jackson Bio |url=http://www.franzjackson.com/bio.html |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=www.franzjackson.com}}</ref>
==Early life== Jackson was born in Rock Island, Illinois, United States on November 1, 1912.<ref name="Grove">{{Citation |last1=Hazeldine |first1=Mike |last2=Gillespie |first2=Deborah |last3=Kernfeld |first3=Barry |date=2008 |title=Jackson, Franz(R.) |publisher=Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J219600 }}</ref> "He received his first lessons on saxophone from Jerome Don Pasquall and later studied at the Chicago Musical College."<ref name="Grove" />
==Later life and career== Early in his career, Jackson played with Albert Ammons's band.<ref name="Grove" /> For much of the 1930s Jackson was based in Chicago.<ref name="Grove" /> He toured with Fletcher Henderson in 1938, then played with Roy Eldridge's band in New York, and in 1940 toured with Fats Waller and then with Earl Hines.<ref name="Grove" /> Following small band work back in New York, he "joined Cootie Williams's big band (1942), played in Boston with Frankie Newton (1942–3), toured with Eldridge (1944), and worked with Wilbur De Paris at Jimmy Ryan's in New York (1944–5)".<ref name="Grove" />
Jackson formed his own band in Chicago in 1957, the Original Jass All Stars.<ref name="Grove" /> With this group, Jackson made overseas tours, including to play in Vietnam.<ref name="Grove" /> He formed another band, the Jazz Entertainers, in 1980.<ref name="Grove" />
He moved to Dowagiac, Michigan in 1975.<ref name=hp>{{cite news |first=Jeremy D. |last=Bonfiglio |title=Jackson CD Hinges on Kickstarter Campaign |url=http://www.theh-p.com/articles/2012/07/08/features/10521143.txt |work=The Herald-Palladium |date=2012-07-08 |access-date=2012-07-09 }}</ref> He died in Niles, Michigan, on May 6, 2008.<ref name="Grove" /> A son and daughter survived him.<ref>{{cite news|title=Franz Robert Jackson|url=http://www.dowagiacnews.com/2008/05/08/franz-robert-jackson-nov-1-1912may-6-2007/|work=The Dowagiac News |date=2008-05-06 |access-date=2012-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121160946/http://www.dowagiacnews.com/2008/05/08/franz-robert-jackson-nov-1-1912may-6-2007/ |archive-date=2013-01-21}}</ref><!-- Note date in title and URL wrong, in body it's correct --><ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Eby |title=Remembering Franz Jackson (1912-2008) |url=http://www.dowagiacnews.com/2008/05/06/remembering-franz-jackson-19122008/ |work=The Dowagiac News |date=2008-05-06 |access-date=2012-07-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121211519/http://www.dowagiacnews.com/2008/05/06/remembering-franz-jackson-19122008/ |archive-date=2013-01-21 }}</ref> "The Franz Jackson Collection at the Chicago Jazz Archive contains his papers and oral history material".<ref name="Grove" />
==Discography== ===As leader/co-leader=== *''No Saints'' (1957, Replica) *''A Night at the Red Arrow'' (1961, Pinnacle) *''Franz Jackson's Original Jass All-Stars Featuring Bob Shoffner'' (1961, Riverside) *''Let's Have a Party'' (1981, Pinnacle) *''Swing Thing'' (1984, Pinnacle) *''Snag It'' (1990, Delmark) *''Live at Windsor Jazz Festival III'' (1994, Parkwood) *''I Is What I Is'' (1997, Pinnacle)
===As sideman=== '''With Lil Armstrong''' *''Lil Armstrong and her Orchestra'' (1961, Riverside) '''With James Carter''' *''Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge'' (2001, Warner Bros.) '''With Art Hodes''' *''Home Cookin' '' (1974, Jazzology) '''With Laura Rucker''' *''Something's Wrong/Swing My Rhythm'' (1936, Decca) '''With Edith Wilson''' *''He May Be your Man (But He Comes to See Me Sometimes)'' (1974, Delmark)<ref name="Grove" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/ The Franz Jackson Collection at the Chicago Jazz Archive] * [http://www.franzjackson.com/index.html Official website] * [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/Franz.html Synoptic biography]
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