A native of Colorado, pianist Jackie Warren originally came to Ohio upon the recommendations of her teachers Patricia Warren, Myra Boitos, Charles Day, and Steve Barta to study piano at Oberlin Conservatory with Sedmara Zakarian Rutstein, where she graduated with a B.M. in classical performance.  While at Oberlin, she also studied jazz arranging, composition, and theory with Wendell Logan, who became a mentor to her, and encouraged her to study jazz piano with Neal Creque and jazz improvisation with Kenny Davis.  Jackie received a M.M. from Cleveland State University in classical piano performance, studying with Andrius Kuprevicius and Daniel Barber, and continued her lessons with Creque.

Jackie performs regularly as a soloist, but has her own jazz trio, which includes bassist Peter Dominguez and drummer Ron Godale.  She also arranges and plays salsa and Latin jazz with  percussionist Sammy Deleon y su orquesta.  Most recently, Jackie began working with Sherrie Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, backing up Maurice Hines’ TAPPIN’ THRU LIFE at the Cleveland Playhouse.  She has been travelling with the show ever since, continuing on to more critically acclaimed performances in Wilmington at the Delaware Theatre Company, Off-Broadway at New World Stages in New York, and at Penn’s Landing Playhouse in Philadelphia, and a live webcast concert version of the show at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.  They also filmed a TV version of the show live at the Katharine Hepburn Performing Arts Center in Old Saybrook, CT, for The Kate TV series’ second season.  During the course of these shows, the rhythm section, consisting of Jackie, Sherrie Maricle, and Amy Shook decided to form their own group, and the powerhouse trio 3Divas was born. 

In addition to these groups, Jackie has performed locally and nationally with such artists and groups as David Fathead Newman, Richie Cole, Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Sean Jones, Ken Peplowski, Harry Allen, Joe Lovano, Regina Carter, Frank Morgan, Bobby Watson, Frank Foster, Vanessa Rubin, Greg Bandy, Bobby Sanabria, Jane Bunnett and the Spirits of Havana, Roberto Occhipinti, Los Munequitos de Matanzas, Othello Molineaux, Donald Harrison, Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Heath, Royal Hartigan, Wes Anderson, Wendell Logan, Billy Hart, Gary Bartz, Donald Walden, Marion Hayden, Impacto Nuevo, Ray de la Paz, Ismael Miranda, Humberto Ramirez, Cano Estremera, Tommy Olivencia, Tony Vega, Tito Rojas, Tito Puente, Jr., Hector Tricoche, Percy Sledge, King Solomon, the Tuscarawas Philharmonic, the Jazz Heritage Orchestra, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, the Oberlin Jazz Faculty group, and the Afro Cleveland Orchestra.

Jackie can be heard regularly at such noted Cleveland area venues as The Velvet Tango Room, Nighttown, the Bop Stop, Take 5, and BLU Jazz+, and has performed at various festivals and clubs including Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors concert series, New World Stages in New York, the Deer Head Inn, Shanghai Jazz Club, New Brunswick Jazz Society, Washington Women in Jazz Festival, Vail Jazz Festival, Tri-C Jazz Festival, and the Rubber City Jazz Festival.  She also appears on numerous recordings, including “Near You” and “Live at the Wi-Fi Café” under her own name, “Steppin’ Out” (Jazz Heritage Orchestra), “Salsa con Sabor” (Sammy Deleon y su orquesta), “Midwest Coast” and “Into the Night” (Josh Rzepka.), “Strunkin’” (Leigh Pilzer), and the upcoming 2017 releases of “Oblivion” (Jackie Warren Trio)  and “3Divas” (3Divas). 

               Jackie is also an educator and clinician, and has taught jazz arranging and composition and coached jazz combos at Oberlin; she is currently on the Jazz Studies Faculty at Cuyahoga Community College, Metro Campus, where she coaches jazz ensembles, and teaches piano class and private lessons.  She is also on the faculty at the Cleveland Music School Settlement.