Easy Now
In the six songs of Easy Now, Aaron Jackson's elegant piano and raw voice merge with homespun percussion and virtual strings to conjure a surrealist landscape alive with sex-crazed transients and kleptomaniac pigeons. For fans of Tom Waits, Van Dyke Parks, George Harrison, and the American songbook.
Aaron Jackson grew up in Princeton NJ, where he learned to play piano and sing. When he wasnt playing imaginary baseball games in the imaginary ballpark in his (actual) backyard, he spent his time wandering around the woods, where the symphonic soundscape of the birds, the breeze and the traffic from a nearby highway made an incalculable impression. He studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York before attending college at Princeton University, where he was exposed to a wealth of music as a DJ and music director at the student-run commercial station WPRB (www.wprb.com) while he majored in philosophy -- perhaps so that p...
Aaron Jackson grew up in Princeton NJ, where he learned to play piano and sing. When he wasnt playing imaginary baseball games in the imaginary ballpark in his (actual) backyard, he spent his time wandering around the woods, where the symphonic soundscape of the birds, the breeze and the traffic from a nearby highway made an incalculable impression. He studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York before attending college at Princeton University, where he was exposed to a wealth of music as a DJ and music director at the student-run commercial station WPRB (www.wprb.com) while he majored in philosophy -- perhaps so that p...
