He won the Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album – Instrumental in 2000 for his solo piano disc ...So Far.
Jackson has composed operas and has won two Emmy Awards for his work writing for television gaining 5 nominations in all.
[2] For five years, Jackson also wrote a regular column for DownBeat magazine entitled "Living Jazz".
[5][6][7] Jackson has been one of three main composers on the children's TV program Peg + Cat for many years, garnering him a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition in 2016 and a second Emmy in 2019 for Outstanding Original Song, "A World Made By Friends" (shared with lyricist, Billy Aronson).
"[2] With Billy Bang With James Carter With David Murray With ProMusica Chamber Orchestra With the World Saxophone Quartet