Fred Jackson Jr.
Fred Jackson Jr has been a Chicago based saxophonist since 2001. Originally from Fort Worth, Tx. He became a member of Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in 2010. Also around this time he went to Poznań, Poland on a “Made in Chicago” tour with Saalik Zyiad. His first time traveling to Germany was with the AACM New Generations ensemble (under the direction of Ben Lamar Gaye). He was also in the first inaugural band of “The Bridge” that played at the MCA in 2010. toured France in 2017 with that same ensemble from the “Bridge”). Jackson has also ventured into theatre working as music director at Free Street with Jerrell Henderson and Marvin Tate’s Theater Y. (Michael Montenegro’s Little Karl) Nowadays, he continues to work on his on projects while collaborating with many Chicago based artist. The current ensembles he performs with, just to name a few, are Magic Carpet (Chicago), Sitarist (Shanta Nurullah of AACM), Adam Zanolini’s Heliacal Rising Of Sothi, Mai Sugimoto Quartet, AACM’s Great Black Music Ensemble (directed by Mwata Bolden), his band Erudition Project, his newest ensemble “Where’s Charlie” and many more to come.
