Carrie is a metropolitan area based vocal stylist and rekindles thoughts of America’s great jazz history, she proudly carries the legacy banner, she is a vocal stylist performer and honed her skills in her hometown of Newark, NJ. Carrie is a classy vocalist who is on the cultural jazz mecca scene performing in Top Clubs and venues in the New York, abroad and throughout the USA, she spreads and shares her joy with her well-honed expertise to the stage. 

Carrie Jackson & Her All Star Band provides classical performances in jazz favorites, soulful sultry pop, blues tunes and poignant mellow gospel. Carrie and her musicians combine jazz originals, standards, pop/blues tunes, and open improvisation in an adventurous, genre-bending style and sound that’s inspirational; she is a singer with a soulful sound. Carrie’s music has had considerable success and gained popularity as an artist and contribution in this industry. 

Carrie’s Jazzin’ All Star Ensemble swing and perform the music of the great composers, Edward “Duke” Ellington, George & Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Lerner & Loewe, Count Basie, Billy Strayhorn, Miles Davis, Clark Terry, Thelonious Monk, Fat’s Waller, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery, and selections from the Great American Song Book. She has worked with Danny Mixon, Houston Person, Lafayette Harris, Katie Cosco, Winard Harper, Gene Ghee, David Lee Jones, Radam Schwartz, Norman Simmons, Lisle Atkinson, Kim Clarke, Takashi Otsuka, Bryce Sebastian, Marcus McLaurin, George Gray, David Lee Jones, Ron Jackson, Michael Cochrane, Andrea Brachfeld, Lee Smith, just to name a few ….

Carrie, with her multifaceted singing style can harmonize & swings classic standards and songs that are all complimented by her engaging stage presence and graceful moves. She is a gifted lyricist, has great timing and truly sings from her heart and she is comfortable performing with a Small Ensemble, Big band and or Orchestra. A few of the noted venues and top jazz clubs where she has performed are: The Blue Note, NYC, Dizzy’s Club at Lincoln Center, NYC, Birdland, NYC, Marcus Garvey Park, NYC, Grant’s Tomb, NYC, Universities & Colleges, NY, NJ, Dorthaan’s Place at NJPAC, NJ, Newark Museum –Jazz in the Garden Series, SOPAC, NJ, Morris Museum Featured Vocalist with The Jazz Lobsters Band, Full Count Orchestra, John Paterson, Marty Eigens Band, The Institute of Jazz Studies Rutgers University NJ, Jazz Festivals, and many more!

THIS VERSATILE performer has sung with many different groups, and leads her own groups, she has been a guest vocalist for a variety of occasions including live radio and television as an artist and events around the world touring abroad and in the USA in years before and since. Ms. Jackson has performed as an actress and dancer, for musical theater as a principal artist to include ‘AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ and NUNSENSE, and live Television and Radio programs. For calendar updates check out: www.cjayrecords.com