Clifton "Jackie" Jackson (born March 1947) is a Jamaican bass player, who was an important and prolific session musician and bassist on ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub and discomix records throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and was later a member of Toots and the Maytals.
[1] At his first recording session in 1967 with producer Duke Reid, he played on "Girl I've Got A Date" by Alton Ellis, which is considered one of the foundational songs of the rocksteady genre.
The bass line of "Girl I've Got a Date" was allegedly duplicated in other international hits "The Liquidator" by the Harry J Allstars, and "I'll Take You There" by the Staple Singers.
[2] The record's success meant that Jackson became in great demand for sessions at Reid's Treasure Isle recording studio, directed by McCook and often playing alongside guitarists Lynn Taitt and Hux Brown, keyboard players Gladstone Anderson and Winston Wright, and drummer Winston Grennan.
[4] As reggae became more successful internationally, Jackson became a member of Toots Hibbert's touring band from the early 1970s onwards.