Music like Jackiem Joyner

Jackiem Joyner (born February 9, 1980) is a smooth jazz saxophonist and flutist from Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

[[Image:Jschool.jpg|thumb|left|200px| Jackiem Joyner Musicians Clinic, Sterling Middle School, Virginia. Son of Dianne Joyner Terry and Jackie Smith,(local bass guitar player known as the raven). Raised by his mother in a single parent home. Family of six. 3 brothers and 1 sister. The family moved from Norfolk, Virginia, to Syracuse, New York, when Joyner was a teenager. He began playing saxophone while attending Fowler High School under the leadership of his music teacher and mentor Lou Adams. He competed in the NAACP's youth achievement program "ACT-SO" (geared towards African Americans demonstrating academic, artistic and scientific prowess and expertise) representing the city of Syracuse and won the state competition three years in a row in three different categories: instrumental contemporary, composition, and classical music. After high school, he moved back to Virginia, where Bishop Michael Patterson of the World Harvest Outreach Ministries in Newport News made him music director. Joyner played for audiences in Nigeria, Sudan, and Kenya on a missionary trip in 2002.