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Personal life. Jacquet was first married to Jacqueline Jacquet. His marriage to socialite Barbara Jacquet ended in divorce. They had a daughter, Pamela Jacquet Davis. Illinois Jacquet's gravesite at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet (31 de octubre de 1922 - 22 de julio de 2004) fue un saxo tenor y saxo alto de jazz estadounidense. 1 2 . Biografía. Jacquet nació en Luisiana, aunque creció en Houston, Texas. 3 Tras tocar con el saxo alto en bandas locales, en 1939, se trasladó a Los Ángeles, California, donde conoció a Nat King Cole.
Illinois Jacquet grew up on stage, singing and dancing as a small child in front of his father’s territory band in Houston, Texas, the family having moved there from Louisiana before Jacquet was a year old.
30 de nov. de 2022 · Illinois Jacquet saw no reason to alter his style after the late-1940s. He always had a robust tone, an emotional yet usually subtle style, and swung at every tempo. He starred on an album in 1959 at the head of an 11-piece group (Illinois Jacquet Flies Again) but mostly led smaller units.
7 de jul. de 2017 · Illinois Jacquet grew up on stage, singing and dancing as a small child in front of his father’s territory band in Houston, Texas, the family having moved there from Louisiana before Jacquet was a year old.
30 de oct. de 2022 · Carol Scherick was Jacquet’s life-long companion after two previous marriages. On July 16, 2004, Grammy-nominated Illinois Jacquet gave his last live performance as he closed the Midsummer Night Swing Series at Lincoln Center for the sixteenth year.
Jean-Batiste ‘Illinois’ Jacquet was a tenor saxophonist, composer and bandleader who was also one of the few jazz musicians to master the bassoon. He is best remembered as the tenor saxophonist who defined the crowd-pleasing ‘screech and honk’ style of playing the instrument.
