I would love to help you build bands, recordings, friendships and performances that you are proud of
I would be happy to help you with composition/arranging, with your original recordings or alongside you as you play your songs live.
I can provide musicians for solo/duo/trio and larger band pop and jazz events
Phone
(250) 882 7702
Locations
North Vancouver, BC
Social Media
Insta: stephjackson_music
Ain't No Sunshine
My Girl
Killing Me Softly
For What It's Worth
Fragile
Beat It
Chandelier
Let's Stay Together
Black Magic Woman
Use Me
Summertime
Dreams
Hello
Faith
Gimme One Reason
Natural Woman
How Sweet it Is
At Last
Listen to the Music
Sir Duke
Can't Hurry Love
Proud Mary
9 to 5
Message in a Bottle
Higher Love
Back to Black
The Winner Takes it All
These Boots are Made for Walking
Kiss
Stand By Me
I Will Survive
Happy Together
If I Ain't Got You
Just the Two of Us
What's Going On
Circle of Life
Lean on Me
Wrecking Ball
I Want You Back
Time After Time
Crazy Train
You Learn
Piece of My Heart
All About That Bass
Tennessee Whiskey
Throw it Away
Georgia
I love to customize these for you and your group. I enjoy arranging in pop, folk, bluegrass and jazz styles for various instruments/voices.
I would love to work with you to make your project exactly the way you want it. I can easily adjust to your needs.
I enjoy working in the contemporary, classical, gospel and jazz genres.
I can help your band members develop the skills they need to tackle the complex tunes they want to play.
I am working with the Bright Futures Band supporting BC artist, Hayley Wallis. Her newly released song, Coffee Cup recently rose to #1 on the Sirius FM charts. She is part of the Kitasoo/Xais’xais Nation, originally from Klemtu. She sings for herself, for her children and for her people and hopes to set an example that will empower the young generation of her community to pursue their dreams. Check out her new releases at hayleywallismusic.com.
Niki Kennedy is a singer, songwriter, and musician from Aotearoa New Zealand based in Vancouver, Canada.
Hailing from the interior of BC, Melissa Endean is an accomplished singer-songwriter/guitarist that possesses an immediately recognizable and distinctive vocal style, carrying enormous range and power and garnering frequent comparisons to Dolly Parton, Patty Griffin, and Tammy Wynette.
Sistaz is a high-energy band, featuring 3 women singers, performing the history of girl-group R&B from the Supremes to Beyonce. The band features seasoned Vancouver-based musicians: Lani Clark Morand and Taylor Meloche on lead vocals, Stephanie Jackson on guitar and backup vocals, Golden Clark on bass, Cole Tinney on keyboards, and Diego Perez on drums.
Samuel Jones's Bright FutureBlending elements of jazz, soul, hip hop, improvisation, progressive and psychedelic rock, Sam creates colorful music that is uniquely his. He has travelled extensively and is one of the most prolific people I know, working around his day job as an astrophysicist he manages to write new music that just keeps getting better, groovier and more interesting. Check out Sam's work at samueljones.win.
Deborah Carter, Tim Charman and I play a diverse array of instantly recognizable music. From country to Rnb and everything in between, with three part harmony and a collection of instruments we have a lot of fun and there is always variety. Deb is engaging and our shows are always fun. 24strings.com
I continue to sub in and support Brett in a variety of contexts including his new project, Letters & Text and Bonfire Ballerina. Brett writes quirky, beautiful music and plays gypsy jazz and pop, always arranged to surprise and delight. Brett is always musical and endlessly entertaining.
Tim Charman and I busk and play acoustic sets together. I love singing in harmony with him and whenever possible, playing tiny instruments. Tim is a multi-instrumentalist and a great bass player, check out his work at timcharman.com
Lauren Mann is a musician, song writer and creative director from Pender Island, BC. I recently worked with her on a tour across Canada and in some of the recordings on her latest album, Memory and Desire. Check out her music at laurenmannmusic.com.
I enjoy Tim's writing and I love playing his tunes. I enjoy his humour and playing his "gut busters" with "greasy" grooves. The laughs never stop. Some of my favourites are Worm Farm, Me and You, Emergence and Warm Spring You.
I want to encourage in others a deep, intrinsic love of music, to encourage understanding between peoples and musics and to instil a love of learning and enthusiasm for holistic musicianship. I believe in learning musics in cultural contexts and in setting students and ensemble participants up for success through positive performance experiences.
Music speaks directly to the amygdala, the emotional centre of the brain, and is able to communicate more clearly in the spiritual and emotional language than words in any tongue. We have a shared human experience and unlike the other arts that are made to be looked at, music pulls us in and brings us all together for a fleeting moment which may be, just may be enough to change hearts and minds.
I have been leading and coaching music for over twenty-five years from lessons to summer camps and K-12 school settings. I hold two post-graduate degrees in music education with a major in jazz studies on guitar. I will always learn and grow my credentials and experience. My focus has been mainly on jazz guitar, piano accompaniment, band and choral ensembles. I especially enjoy local and world musics, collaborating to develop greater musical, spiritual and cultural understandings that break down walls and bring communities together.
I customize arrangements for unique ensembles. If you can't find the arrangement you are looking for I can help you. I especially enjoy arranging in jazz and contemporary idioms. I love arranging for choral and instrumental ensembles at all levels, considering the unique needs of your group.
I enjoy supporting roles where I can use my ear to respond to you in the moment, fill in spaces and create the feel that you want. I am comfortable improvising and sight reading on piano and guitar and have a working playing knowledge of several other instruments in the strings, percussion, woodwind and brass families.
I deeply value my work with a variety of choral ensembles, auditioned and community choirs. I welcome new experiences with different groups. I enjoy the expressive qualities of the human voice, across genres from classical to contemporary classical, jazz and gospel.
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