Joe Jackson: The Duke

photo: Frank Veronsky Joe Jackson has been a jazz fan since he was a teenager and Duke Ellington is his hero, as a musician and a big band leader. The Duke is a not a tribute album in the strict sense of the word. Jackson rearranged the standards and did it all without horns (well, there is a piccolo and a sousaphone on Rockin' In Rhythm, two instruments that were never used by Ellington). As a fellow pianist Jackson he admires his skills, band leader capacities and his qualities as an arrange...

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