Jolyon Jackson
Jolyon Jackson (3 September 1948 – 18 December 1985) was an Irish musician and composer.[1]
Life
Jackson was born in Malaya, where his father was Deputy Commissioner of the police (and received the CBE). His father was Patrick Jackson, from County Limerick, of a Cork family; his mother was the singer Charmian Jenkinson. They lived at Poul-na-murrish, Annamoe, County Wicklow.[2]
He was educated in Salisbury Cathedral School and Bradfield College Reading. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin in the late 1960s, where he graduated in Arts and Music. He integrated himself into the musical life of Dublin, first with the group "Jazz Therapy", and later with "Supply, Demand and Curve." He played 'cello, keyboards including organ, piano and synthesizer, and recorder.
He married Teresa from Delgany, County Wicklow and they had a son, Linus.
Jolyon Jackson died in London of Hodgkins disease on 18 December 1985.
Music
Supply Demand and Curve released their eponymous album in 1976 on the Mulligan label (LUN 009). It contained eleven tracks, ten of which were composed by Jolyon Jackson. It had taken several years of snatched studio-time to complete, and included contributions from some musicians who were no longer in the band by the time of the LP release. Other recordings on which Jackson featured include Camouflage by Sonny Condell (Mulligan 1977), and Taylormaid by Rosemary Taylor (Id 1977). Jackson was an "early adopter" of home-recording: he bought an eight-track recorder and set up a studio in his home in Dun Laoire, and there recorded the seminal Hidden Ground with Fiddle-player Paddy Glackin (Tara 1980) on which he plays and arranges all the music and instruments which "frame" the solo fiddle.
He also appears on albums by The Chieftains, Midnight Well, Terry and Gay Woods, and Roger Doyle's Operating Theatre. Compositions for Television include the RTÉ series "Hands", "Visions of Transport" and "To the Waters and the Wild". Jackson also involved himself in music for the theatre, most notably in the music for the Yeats trilogy based on the Saga of Cuchulain, performed in the Noh style and directed by Hideo Kanze at the Abbey Theatre, and later in music to accompany the exercises of the Gurdjieff Movement.