Find a Grave Paul Jackson (1947-2021)

Find a Grave Paul Jackson (1947-2021)
Paul Jackson
Birth 28 Mar 1947
Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Death 18 Mar 2021 (aged 73)
Japan
Burial Details Unknown
Jazz Bassist

He is best known as the bassist for Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and helped secure the first million-selling jazz album. He started playing bass guitar at the age of nine and at the age of 14, he performed with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and went on to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

As an adult, he worked as a sideman with a wide variety of artists, from Santana and the Pointer Sisters to the jazz saxophonists Stanley Turrentine and Sonny Rollins. His insistent, conversational electric bass lines propelled Headhunters to the furthest reaches of rapturous jazz-funk.

Jackson’s playing both tethered the band to the ground and encouraged it to take flight. He can be heard on all four Headhunters albums under Hancock’s direction: 1973’s Head Hunters, 1974’s Thrust, 1975’s Man-Child, and the 1975 live LP Flood. The relentlessly funky Head Hunters, inspired more by Sly and the Family Stone than by Hancock’s onetime boss Miles Davis, became the best-selling jazz album of all time on release.

Jackson co-wrote its lead track, “Chameleon” and the band performed on Soul Train, and “Chameleon” became a jazz standard.

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