Jackie West was raised in a musical family in Boston. She studied classical and jazz but left it behind to travel to the shores of Martha’s Vineyard working on farms: tilling, harvesting, gardening and taking care of horses on the island. That year, Jackie got to know a community of folk musicians and began learning and writing music on an old acoustic guitar she borrowed. From there she moved to Brooklyn, New York, where she began to sing Jazz at a weekly residency while starting a project with her long time friend (Emily Gasda) which led to an invitation to travel to Paris to record with Lewis Lazar (Oracle Sisters) on his reel to reel in Montmartre producing an EP titled ‘Ivansencha’. After this adventure, Jackie West returned to New York and began writing songs prolifically on her own, all the while developing as a jazz singer by trade in the corners of Brooklyn and Manhattan’s speakeasies and bars. Teaming up with producer Jon Wiley, these songs resulted in what is her debut EP self titled ‘Jackie West’ released with Westernesse in 2022. 
The self-titled three song EP features a number of friends performing in a mixed style of remote and live recording. West’s otherwise minimal, acoustic songs turn into multi-instrumental soundscapes, drawing new dimensions from her world.