Some of my Emmy Award-winning work as composer for multi-Emmy-Award-winning children's t.v. shows:
Here's a reel documenting some of my Emmy Award-winning work as composer for multi-Emmy-Award-winning children's t.v. shows:
A song I wrote for a new Sesame Street camera (music written/produced by me):
Here's the song for which I received the 2019 Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Original Song" (with lyricist Billy Aronson), "A World Made By Friends" from the 8-Emmy-winning show Peg + Cat (PBS):
Here's a lovely video by The Ahn Trio featuring my arrangement of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" I did for their album Blue, with visuals by Brazilian-Korean visual artist Sun Yeo:
Here's "The Infinity Song" which I composed and arranged (lyrics by Billy Aronson) from Peg + Cat's "The Sam Problem":
And here's the 3 million+ viewed theme "Marvie's Song" for which I composed/produced/performed the music:
A romantic comedy feature directed by Alexander Baack, for which I wrote and performed the underscore as well as the music for the songs (in collaboration with lyricist/director/co-writer Alexander Baack). The film received the Audience Award for Best Comedy at the 2018 Cinequest Film & VR Festival in San Jose, CA. More info on the film here.
Teaser trailer featuring original music from the film:
A scene from the film featuring my scoring. It begins with a song (performed by Paul Guyet), then segues into a "mirror" scene featuring my solo piano composition and playing:
Pieces from the feature film Hollywood Musical!, for which I wrote the music for all the songs and underscore in collaboration with director, producer, lyricist, editor, and actor Alexander Baack (of Force Studios):
"Something's Gotta Give" from Hollywood Musical!:
"Here I Am" from Hollywood Musical! The performer on this one (music written/performed by me; lyrics by Alexander Baack) is the incomparable Angela Pupello (I also do a cameo on piano):
This was one of my favorite songs I wrote with bookwriter and lyricist Carl Kissin for our unfinished musical Depressed, Depressed, performed here by Carl (with myself on piano). Carl was recently named "Best Lyricist" at the New York Musical Theater Festival for his musical Date of a Lifetime:
Here's a video reel showing samples of my work in production/arranging/composing for Emmy-Award-winning television shows, Grammy nominated CD's, documentaries, movie musicals, and more. For more specific examples I can't show here, please reach out to me at dd@ddjackson.com.
D.D. Jackson