Black Joy Blazers: Javon Jackson On Jazz, Gratitude, And The Process Of Failure

Black Joy Blazers: Javon Jackson On Jazz, Gratitude, And The Process Of Failure

CLOSE American musician, educator, and composer Javon Anthony Jackson has used jazz to not only bring Joy to his life, but also to the many people who have had the opportunity to hear him play.Born in Carthage, Missouri, but raised in Denver, Colorado, Jackson found his love for jazz as a boy listening to his parents play their records. In the fourth grade, when he got his opportunity to pick an instrument, he chose the saxophone and began his l…