Joe Jackson

Biography

It started by learning the Violon but quickly changed for the Piano. As from 16 years it started to play in bars, and gained a price at the school to study off the composition with the Royal Academy Music of London.

Joe Jackson knew various stages in his composition. During the years 1970, its music is very rock'n'roll, strongly influenced as from 1976 by the waves New wave, Ska and Punk. The rates/rhythms of Got the time and I' m the man illustrate that as well as possible. Its first album Look Sharp (1979, A&M) with the famous small pocket with the " Blue Sweden shoes" black and white is a great doubled success of a critical and commercial success. The album did not age and it takes again certain titles of " today; Look sharp" on scene. It gives him its first tube, Is she really going out with him? . The albums according to I' m the Man (1979, A&M) and Beat Crazy (1980, A&M) impose it like an artist English high-speed motorboat of New Wave on the sides of Police, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello, etc

In 1981, it carries out an artistic turn and records an album in homage to the largest black type-setters of Jazz with Jumpin' Jive . The symbolic system of the small pocket of this album, two J illustrated by 2 saxophones is a parallel to its initial. The text of the jacket shows that Joe is a musician above all and that it especially wishes to have fun.

In 1982 appears Night & Day , regarded as the first masterpiece of its career post-rock'n'roll. Influenced by Latin rates/rhythms, the percussionnist Sue Hadjopoulos gives to the songs a relief particularly hot and involving. It is on this album that one finds one of his larger tubes, Steppin' Out . To note that if Steppin' Out in its original version is on a fast tempo, Joe Jackson with the practice to play it in concert by introducing it by variations of the topic to the piano with a very slow ryhtme.

The album Body & Soul of 1984 is regarded by certain as its second masterpiece. It was recorded in an old maconnic cabin in New York, which confers a heat and one made of the instruments to him very particular and very faithful. Following the example Night & Day , Body & Soul (even more) is influenced by the rates/rhythms latinos, with copper addition. It is on this album that one finds You can' T get what you want (till you know what you want) and Happy Ending .

Joe Jackson grants interviews then or it reproaches the pop groups for making commercial, ininspirée and plagiarized music. It decides to leave pop mobility, and writes the album Big World . The version vinyl comprises three faces, with relatively pop songs That is to express feelings of nostalgia ( Home Town ), everyday life ( 50 dollar coils to affair ), histories ( Wild West ), policies ( Right And Wrong ), or frankly caricatural ( Jet-set ), the album is a voyage not only geographical but of states of moods.

Its true rupture with the pop music is consumed with " Will Power" , an instrumental album which shows at which point Joe Jackson became a true musician. Very atypical in the musical landscape of 1987, the album is accommodated with much moderation. Joe records then a film music for Tucker of Francis Ford Coppola.

Blaze off Glory and Laughter & Lust appears, again pop, but impressed albums mark JJ.

Night Music appears in 1994, some regard it as the third masterpiece of the type-setter. This album is inspired by the night, and is declined in lullabies, instrumental of night, and soft songs. He is noticed musicalement, utilizing instruments like the Ondes Martenot. Let us note in particular Ever after and The man who wrote Danny Boy , history of a type-setter who passes a pact with the devil to have only once faculty to write a perfect song.

Heaven & Hell follows in 1997; it is an album concept based on the seven deadly sins. Marked by the war in ex- Yugoslavia, they are often aggressive melodies.

Symphony n°1 , appeared in the collection Sony Classical and for which Joe received a Grammy Award, mark end of the period of the directed compositions traditional/jazz for Joe Jackson.

Joe joins again then with the more pop music and carries out a series in concerts of old albums, whose “Live in New York” appears in 2000. To note the return to a style plus minimalist comprising low, a battery, and a keyboard, Joe playing itself several instruments, of which the piano and the keyboard.

Night & Day II appears in 2000, and is again a great success. Strongly inspired of Night & Day , helped by musicians like Allison Cornwell, Graham Maby and Sue Hadjopulos, Night & Day II is a voyage through New York.

He had said it, its first group would not reform himself. However in 2003, Volume 4 appears; it is the 4th album with its assistants Graham Maby, Gary Sandford and Dave Houghton. Faithful to the style of the first three albums, it joins again with the pop tradition inspired of New Wave and partly of the punk music. It also joins again with them for the concerts, in formation with three or four.

In 2004 he collaborates in the new album of William Shatner and sings with him on individual the " Common People" a resumption of the hit of Pulp.

Joe wrote a book has Cure for Gravity which is an autobiography relating primarily to its youths, until the recording of Look Sharp! in 1978.

A new album should be born in the neighborhoods of March 2008 February, according to the dires of Joe Jackson itself in round, which currently presents some of its new compositions on scene.

Discography

Sharp Look! (1979, A&M)
I' m the Man (1979, A&M)
Happy Crazy (1980, A&M)
Jumpin' Jive (1981, A&M)
Night and Day (1982, A&M)
Mike' S Murder (1983, A&M)
Body & Drunk (1984, A&M)
Big World (1986, A&M)
Will Power (1987, A&M)
Live 1980/86 (1987, A&M)
Tucker (1988, A&M)
Blaze off Glory (1989, A&M)
Laughter & Lust (1991, Virgin)
Night Music (1994, Virgin)
Heaven & Hell (1997, Sony)
Symphony No 1 (1999, Sony])
Summer in the City: Live in New York (2000, Sony)
Night and Day II (2000, Sony)
The Best off Joe Jackson (2001, Universal)
Two Rainy Nights (2002, Ryko)
Volume 4 (2003, Ryko)
Afterlife (2004, Ryko)
Rain (Forecast of exit: February 2008)

External bonds

joejackson.com
jj-archive.net

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