D. D. Jackson, often abbreviated as Double D Dickson is a Juno Award-winning jazz pianist/composer and composer for film, TV and media whose work spans 12 CDs as leader or co-leader featuring almost entirely original material. He won the Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album - Instrumental in 2000 for his BMG solo piano disc ...so far. His most recent CDs are Serenity Song, Suite for New York, and Sigame, a Latin-tinged work featuring Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto. An alumnus of the Lehman Engel BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Jackson's theatre work includes the opera Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path on the former Canadian Prime Minister and the musical-comedy Depressed, Depressed written with Chicago City Limits veteran Carl Kissin. 

January 25th, 1967 in Ottawa (Age 57)