Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Tune ID# 914 (Jackson's Reel)

RhythmBars8-bar phrase structureMode
Reel40AABCCD Major
Transcription of first 2 bars of Jackson's Reel
 about these two bars

These two bars are the start of my transcription of how this tune was played – the first time through – on the recording FG 1 (details in the Discography below).

Where do you get the tune titles?
Titles given to this tune in the sources listed below (plus notes of mine about this tune):
Jackson's Reel / Denis Murphy's / Jim McKenna's (2nd in set Jackson's on FG 1) (varied settings; compare 3rd part with 2nd part of Jim Donoghue's #940)
What do the "track#tune" codes mean?

cd Discography

Here are all recordings of this tune considering only the indexed recordings. I have discovered by careful listening that these sources are in fact musically the same tune, regardless of the tune titles they use, key changes, retuning, etc. They are listed in order of when they were recorded.

Year
Recorded		 Track
#Tune		 [Album code] Artist. Title. Primary musicians (instruments). Album details
and contents
~19776#2[FG 1] Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn. Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn. Frankie Gavin (fiddle, whistle), Alec Finn (bouzouki).View album details
~19914#3[BT] Baal Tinne. . . . About Time. Noel Rice (flute, whistle), Kevin Rice (bodhrán, percussion), Cathleen Rice (fiddle), Matt Sundstrom (guitar), Paul Cienniwa (piano, keyboards).View album details
1993[2] various. Alan's other personal audiocassettes.

Bibliography

Here are all transcriptions of this tune under any title whatsoever – considering only the indexed books – listed in chronological order. I have discovered by careful comparison that these are very similar to this tune as played on the recordings listed above.

As tune #207 in [CRE 2] Breandán Breathnach. Ceol Rince na hÉireann 2.
As tune #25 in volume 3 of [B&S] D[avid] Bulmer and N[eil] Sharpley. Music from Ireland. 4 vols.
As tune #45 in [P] Brian and Eithne Vallely. Play 50 Reels.
As reel #219 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As reel #40 in [MM] Martin Mulvihill. First Collection of Traditional Irish Music.
As reel #145 in [Cobb] Dan Cobb. Cobb's Music of Ireland. [available]

If you are considering using the above transcriptions to help you learn this tune, I invite you to check these practical Tips for Learning Irish Traditional Music. See also: So why do you bother indexing books and abc?

Year of the oldest source for this tune, considering the recordings and transcriptions listed above (note that I concentrate on sources after 1900): 1968
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