Musician. A trumpeter, he (along with saxophonist Andrew Love) formed the prolific music duo "The Memphis Horns." Raised in West Memphis, Arkansas, Jackson was initially introduced to the guitar at an early age and fell in love with the trumpet one day after his mother presented him with the musical instrument. He participated in both his junior and senior high school bands, and towards the end of graduation he had landed a spot within the group "The Bar-Kays." It would be during this time period when he met and began a collaboration with Andrew Love, which led to a deep impact during the music scene of the 1960s. Providing backing musical contributions to Otis Redding, they accompanied him on his Stax/Volt European Tour which lasted from 1966 to 1967. In addition, they performed with him at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967. Both Jackson and Love avoided death, when on December 10, 1967, the plane carrying Redding and other band members crashed into Lake Monona in Wisconsin. Redding and all but one member (Ben Cauley) of "The Bar-Kays." perished. During that time, Jackson and Love were fine-tuning what was to be the posthumous number one hit for Redding in 1968, "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay." Following this tragedy, the pair in 1969 formed "The Memphis Horns" and became two of the most sought-after session artists of their time, as they worked with Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, among many others. By the end of the 1970s, Jackson relocated to Nashville and performed with Marty Robbins at the Grand Ole Opry. During the 1980s, Jackson played trumpet on Peter Gabriel's hit "Sledgehammer" (1986) and worked with such artists as Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt, Lenny Kravitz and Robert Cray. In 2012, Jackson and Love received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Love died from Alzheimer's disease that same year. Jackson died of complications from heart failure.