While this is Jackson's fifth album, it is her first project focusing on Jazz vocals. September in the Garden showcases Jordyn Jackson's vocals and the incredible range of talents of the young Louisiana musicians who arranged, produced and performed on the album.
Led by Beau St. Pierre and Jake Smith, who created the new instrumentations, tempos and overall arrangements of the album, Jackson re-envisions ten musical standards. Over the course of several weeks at Fudge Recording Studio in the Garden District of New Orleans, a collaborative musical effort was recorded and engineered by Jacques Delatour and Jack Miele. With Chris Arceneaux on drums, Jake Smith and Joseph Walker on guitar, Tommy Sciple and Darren Phipps on electric and upright bass, Mike Broussard, Jr. on saxophone, Jack Craft on cello, and his brother Sam Craft on violin, even engineer Jack Miele played lap steel on Lilac Wine, and of course Beau St. Pierre rounding things out on piano and trumpet, the album's sound organically came together.
Led by Beau St. Pierre and Jake Smith, who created the new instrumentations, tempos and overall arrangements of the album, Jackson re-envisions ten musical standards. Over the course of several weeks at Fudge Recording Studio in the Garden District of New Orleans, a collaborative musical effort was recorded and engineered by Jacques Delatour and Jack Miele. With Chris Arceneaux on drums, Jake Smith and Joseph Walker on guitar, Tommy Sciple and Darren Phipps on electric and upright bass, Mike Broussard, Jr. on saxophone, Jack Craft on cello, and his brother Sam Craft on violin, even engineer Jack Miele played lap steel on Lilac Wine, and of course Beau St. Pierre rounding things out on piano and trumpet, the album's sound organically came together.
After all the recording was completed, the raw tracks were sent to Shawn Grove who mixed them at Edible Studios in Sandy Springs, GA, the private home studio of Ed Roland, lead singer and songwriter of Collective Soul. Shawn's ear, normally tuned to a more rock sound (Collective Soul, Sevendust) added an edge that really shines through on the album. The final touches were put on the album when it was mastered by Glenn Schick at his studio in Atlanta.
