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Julian Jackson

About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)Featured soloist on the Oscar winning soundtrack for the 'The Full Monty'Harmonica performance for the famous Stella Artois commercials, for which he plays an excerpt of Verdi’s ‘Force of Destiny’Special guest with John Barry , performing "Midnight Cowboy" and "Dances with Wolves" at the Royal Festival HallFeatured soloist on Anthony Hopkins produced film "AugustThe only Harmonica player to ever gain access to both the Guildhall School Of Music (Post Graduate Course) and the Royal Academy of Music (Bachelor of Music Course).His unique style and ability at both jazz and classical Harmonica Playing has won him the recognition of many musicians and composers including British jazz pianist Julian Josephs, and Jazz legend "Toots" Thielemans. Josephs commented "his playing has great soul and melodic content and logic".Julian has been fortunate to study with "Toots”, who gave Julian one of his personalised harmonicas. The only other person to have received one of these is Quincy Jones.Live appearances include being a featured soloist at the World Harmonica Federation in Germany in November 2005, and gigs with The Julian Jackson Quartet (Tim Lapthorn, piano; Tom Herbert, bass and Patrick Levett, drums.Julian is active in the session scene for film, television, radio and as a featured solist on CDs by other artists…Featured soloist on the Oscar winning soundtrack for the 'The Full Monty'Anthony Hopkins produced film "August"Disneys "Funny Bones" starring Jerry LewisCarlton Televisions Productions of "Anna Lee" and "Frontiers"BBC's" Tears Before Bedtime" , " The Missing Postman", "Wokewell"; and "Drovers Gold"Colin Firth film ‘Hope Springs’TV ads for the beer Stella Artois, for which he plays an excerpt of Verdi’s ‘Force of Destiny’Tracks for SONY’s Meja Beckmans albumFeatured on Claire Martin’s 2004 albumSoundtrack for film ‘Win Dixie’BBC Strictly Dance Fever TV Show Etc, etc,Performing With Brian Conley.Performing on the BBC's "Strictly dance fever"Julian Performs Verdi's "Force of Destiny" for the Stella Artois commercial.Another Performance of Verdi's "Force of Destiny" for the Stella Artois commercial.Yet another performance of Verdi's "Force of Destiny" for this award winning Stella Artois commercial.

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Member Since: 09/05/2008
Band Website: www.julian-jackson.com
Band Members: Listen to samples from the album "I can't get started" http://cdbaby.com/cd/julianjackson
Record Label: 33 records
Type of Label: Indie