Ms. Jackson has performed at the Watchung Arts Center in 49^th Street Jazz, a musical review tribute to Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, Alberta Hunter, featuring selections from Eubie, sophisticated ladies, Black and Blue, Porgy and Bess; and was hailed a diva for her featured artist performance in “Women in Jazz” series.  She was a principle performer in “Ain’t misbehaving” a Thomas Fats’ Waller musical show presented at the Villagers Theater, Somerset, NJ.  “To see and hear Carrie in action is to experience Jazz singing in the purest sense,” so say the Somerset Times.  “Ms. Jackson is a song stylist as well as an extraordinary Jazz, singer with all the qualities of Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, and a hint of young Ella Fitzgerald in her voice”  Tomes Jerome Wilson, a New York Jazz critic for Cadence Jazz Magazine.

For a celebration of music from a star on the rise, don’t miss … Ms. Carrie Jackson

Jazz vocal stylist/scatologist/actor Gil “Bop” Benson has modeled his vocal improvisations after Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and other musical greats.  Recently he was a featured artist at trumpet’s Jazz club and restaurant, Montclair, NJ.  He has performed at Passaic County College, NJ Rouzeau’s Manor, Orange, NJ and all the top clubs in the tri-state metropolitan areas to include NY, NJ, Philadelphia, PA and Washington, D.C. 

Gil’s vocal nuances bring new horizons to this American classical art form called Jazz!  Gil’s vocal style enables him to cover a wide range and a varied repertoire, providing for bebop, swing, and jazz classics.  He has taken all of his jazz mentors and made them a part of his torch to keep the legacy of jazz alive, and carries them to new vistas.  Gil usually takes his audience’s by storm with charm and temperament.