Excellent drummer with Booker T. & the MG's who also worked on many sessions for artists contracted to Hi and Stax Records.

Keyboard player Booker T. Jones considered Jackson the best drummer in Memphis. In 1962, he persuaded Jackson to join Stax Records, where the pair joined guitarist Steve Cropper and (later) bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn to form Booker T. & the MG's, arguably the best house band in history. The group played on virtually every recording by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Carla and Rufus Thomas, Eddie Floyd and William Bell during the mid- to late 1960s and had their own hits as well.

By 1971, however, popularity drove the group apart as both Cropper and Jones spent much time away from Memphis. During the early 1970s, Jackson spent time working as both a session drummer and producer, appearing on albums by Eric Clapton, Donny Hathaway, Freddie King and Herbie Mann.

In 1975, Booker T. & the MG's re-formed and began recording a reunion album. Later that year, however, Jackson was tragically shot and killed in his home; reports conflict on whether the culprit was a burglar or his wife.