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Subject: Jackson's From: Aidan Crossey Date: 22 Jun 01 - 07:20 AM Jackson's Bottle of Brandy, Jackson's Morning Brush, Jackson's Fancy, Jackson's Rolling Jig ... only a few of the jigs in the Irish tradition with "Jackson's" in the title. Any of you scholars aware of the provenance? Was Jackson a player or composer or collector or publisher? |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: forty two Date: 22 Jun 01 - 07:25 AM Need to do a bit of double checking but I am pretty sure he was from Sligo and a contemporary of Coleman. |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: Jon Freeman Date: 22 Jun 01 - 07:27 AM Looks like there were a few Jacksons - found this at the Fiddler's Companion. JACKSONS' COMBS. A group of tunes from Donegal attributed to the Bundoran Jacksons, which includes some tunes attributed to the Limerick uilleann piper Walter Jackson. It seems that a branch of the Jackson family moved from Mayo to Donegal early in the 19th century, and had a number of talented musicians on fiddle and pipes, who toured the county playing at fairs and other gatherings. The tune repertoire of the family was taken up by Donegal lilters (who at the time provided most of the music for local dancing by their lilting of tunes) who would sometimes hum through paper-and-comb to imitate the sound of the pipes. These tunes became collectively known as "The Combs" or "Jacksons' Combs," and included such titles as "Jackson's Hi-Ho." (See also note for "Kitchen Comb."
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: IanC Date: 22 Jun 01 - 07:45 AM I'd thought Jackson was an Irish piper/composer too, but the earliest versions I've found of most of them seem to be in Aird (1778), which is rather earlier than the above. Here's ABC versions of Aird's Airs.
Still searching! |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: Jon Freeman Date: 22 Jun 01 - 07:57 AM It looks to me like the main Jackson was Walker Jackson (I think wrongly spelt Walter in the article I posted) who I have found described as a gentleman piper from Limerick who lived in the 1700's. I've not been able to find any more than that. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: Murray MacLeod Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:02 AM All these tunes were composed by Jackson Browne when he was about five years old. He then went on to fame and fortune after writing "Tese Days" when he was fifteen. Murray |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: IanC Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:06 AM No, his name wasn't misspelt. Here he is.
Jackson's Celebrated Irish Tunes. [Walker 'Piper' Jackson of Limerick] |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: IanC Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:10 AM Sorry, forgot to add that there's quite a lot of detail on Bruce Olson's site here. |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: Aidan Crossey Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:35 AM Ian ... Many, many thanks for the effort you put in to this! I hadn't come across Bruce Olson's site before ... But you can be sure I'll be back.
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: Jon Freeman Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:42 AM Ian? Not sure what you mean "wasn't miss-spelt" - I was qustioning the use of "Walter" instead of "Walker" in the bit from the Fiddlers Companion. A miss-spelling still looks like a strong possibility to me. derrymacash, glad you can understand Bruce O's site, I can't. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: IanC Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:47 AM Jon Yes, sorry. Misread your original post. BTW. I made it easy by linking to the appropriate bit of Bruce's site!!! |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: Jon Freeman Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:51 AM Ian, I have to admit I'm impressed with that! Jon |
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Subject: RE: Jackson's From: Dorrie Date: 22 Jun 01 - 03:46 PM oh right i thought u meant as in the shops in hull well they are in more places but they stared in jacksons dorrie xxx |
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