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| | Encyclopedia: Joe Jackson (musician) |
 | | Jackson is most commonly known for the 1982 hit song "Steppin' Out", which still gets extensive FM radio airplay. | | | Jackson is probably best-known for the 1982 hit song "Steppin' Out", which still gets extensive FM radio airplay, and for his 1979 hit, "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" Image File history File links Joejacksonlooksharp. | | | Jackson followed with Big World, a three-sided double record (the fourth side consisted of a single centring groove and a label stating "there is no music on this side"). |
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| | Joe Jackson -Volume 4 Reviews |
| | Jackson says Volume 4, which he produced, was recorded in ten days, "… about the same time as Look Sharp&; I overdubbed some of the piano parts, but most of the songs are second or third takes." The result is a disc that has an immediate, live feel. | | | Joe Jackson says he had to pick himself up off the floor when he realized it was 25 years ago that he recorded his first album, Look Sharp!. | | | Jackson’s original band made three records before it broke up in 1980. |
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| | The Joe Jackson Archive: Latest Joe Jackson news |
| | Joe contributes a track to the XTC tribute album "A Testimonial Dinner – The Songs Of XTC". | | | Joe Jackson's Night and Day." They are doing every song from both "Night and Day" albums as a two-act music theatre piece, featuring singers, actors, stage combat, and dance, backed by a live six-piece band. | | | Universal Music in the US re-releases Joe Jackson's first two albums as remastered CDs with bonus tracks. |
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| | Dancing About Architecture: Joe Jackson Essay |
| | Jackson has subtitled his book "A Musical Pilgrimage." The destination seems to be the reminder that music is, for him, a cure for gravity, a means of rising above the pull of outside expectations. | | | Jackson doesn't "expect everyone to be musically educated and discerning. | | | The early 70s in London was a heady time for pop music with the progressives of early Genesis, Pink Floyd and Steely Dan and before the explosion of punk, Bob Marley and ska's rebirth. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Volume 4 - Joe Jackson (Rock) at Epinions.com |
| | Joe Jackson has never exactly fit in with the mainstream, but the sound of his first recordings was quite memorable. | | | They still sound good, thanks to the skill of the other musicians, but not putting the piano in the spotlight is like hearing a Stevie Ray Vaughan album without a guitar solo. | | | Even though Joe Jackson and his bandmates have seen quite a few years pass by since their first release together (as evidenced by the pictures on the back cover and in the liner notes), they still have what it takes to stand next to today's biggest acts. |
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| | Ink 19 :: Joe Jackson Band |
| | Jackson is no Eminem, and to infer homophobia on the part of the man who wrote "Real Men" would be ridiculous, but this song needs at least one more rewrite to bring it into sharper focus. | | | Already this decade he's released an informal live album of his songs rearranged for trio and a sequel to one of his most successful albums. | | | Jackson has put out 20 albums (not counting compilations and re-packaging) since his first, Look Sharp in 1979, and has an established penchant for confounding audiences. |
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| | Joe Jackson - I'm The Man |
| | I'm The Man was Joe Jackson's second album (other than the stuff as the band Clark Kent, and I'm not even sure if they released any albums), and the last of his pure new-wave albums. | | | Though Joe is an excellent pianist, he doesn't show much of that talent here; for most of the album it's the trio playing and Joe singing. | | | The band on I'm the Man consists of Joe Jackson on vocals, piano, harmonica, and melodica, Graham Maby on bass, Gary Sanford on guitar, and Dave Houghton on drums. |
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| | Joe Jackson |
| | Continuing the genre-jumping, this is an album of modern classical music. | | | Soon Jackson abandoned pop music altogether, and this was the last hurrah for the original backing unit. | | | Produced by Jackson and Roynesdal; the band is Maby, Askew, Hadjopolous, Tom Teeley (guitar) and Dan Hicky (drums - Burke sat this one out). |
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| | Joe Jackson Diary |
| | Joe Jackson albums are available from record stores or online on www.joejackson.com or www.amazon.co.uk. | | | Afterlife, the live album from the reunited Joe Jackson Band which played a one-off world tour last year, was released on 16 March 2004. | | | Recent albums by Joe Jackson include Volume 4 (Joe Jackson Band, 2002); Symphony No 1 which won a 2000 Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album; Joe Jackson: The Collection (2001); and Night and Day Vol 2 (2000). |
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| | CNN.com - Joe Jackson is back - Mar. 11, 2003 |
| | Jackson recorded prolifically through the remainder of the 1980s but hit a roadblock in the early 1990s. | | | So it's no surprise that the British singer-musician-songwriter-producer wasn't keen at first about the notion of reuniting with the members of the original Joe Jackson Band to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their seminal 1979 album "Look Sharp!" "I thought it was a terrible idea," he says. | | | The son of Ron, a British Navy man, and Vera, a homemaker, the Portsmouth, England-raised Jackson began realizing his musical talent when he was an 11-year-old violin student. |
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| | Joe is working on a new EP release of Glamour and Pain that will feature a special cut of the song from the two concerts filmed by GBI. | | | "...(Joe Jackson) is the first of the British postpunks to show an interest in bridging the gap between pop music and serious music." | | | Both Seattle and Portland shows were filmed in 2001, including Joe commenting on his role as a musician, songwriter, and performer. |
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| | Joe Jackson Merchandise |
| | Songwriter and Phil Coley music arranger, producer, musician and singer. | | | Joe writes or co-writes all of the songs. | | | Sports Songs and Beyond is the second CD album of the team of Joe Pickering Jr. |
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| | BenFolds.org - Joe Jackson? |
| | Joe Jackson should also be noted for having wonderful talents in diverse areas, like his campy sort of vocal pop jazz "Jumpin' Jive", nice arrangements there, his First Symphony which I've never heard, or the various large and small sounds on "Body and Soul". | | | With clever lyrics, awesome piano and band arrangements, Joe Jackson is the original Ben Folds. | | | Joe actually used to get lumped in with Elvis Costello a lot in the old days as breakers of the new wave. |
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| | Alternative Rock - Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson free mp3 full albums download |
| | Jackson is at his best when he rocks his hardest, and this quick collection (the entire disc tallies just under 37 minutes) of 11 tracks doesn't disappoint in that regard. | | | Crossing do-wop choruses and melodies with sharp New Wave guitar chops and pulsing percussion is an intoxicating blend that infuses the album with infectious energy. | | | While the lyrics are quite sarcastic (and hilarious in spots), the music is impossibly upbeat, and refrains from depressing wallowing: leave it to wisecracking Joe to turn something so self-deprecating and sarcastic into something peppy and upbeat -- it almost makes you wonder if Joe is celebrating his own dissatisfactions with love and life. |
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| | Biography of Joe Jackson |
| | In his childhood he played the violin and the piano, and, in 1971, Joe Jackson went to the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship. | | | It was in January 1979 that Joe Jackson made his breakthrough with the brilliant album, Look Sharp! | | | The album contained Jackson's first single which had been released earlier (in October 1978), Is She Really Going Out With Him? |
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| | Book Joe Jackson for Event, Meeting, Gala |
| | Born in Burton-on-Trent, England in 1954, acclaimed songwriter/musician Joe Jackson practically grew up with music, learning violin at age 11 and piano shortly thereafter. | | | Further demonstrating his adaptability, Jackson's next project, 1990's Laughter and Lust, was a pop album that poked fun at pop. | | | In 1978 Jackson began a solo career, releasing his critically praised debut LP, Look Sharp!, on A&M Records the following year. |
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| | Amazon.com: Blaze of Glory: Music |
| | Joe Jackson is far from the typical new wave rocker his first 2 or 3 albums pegged him as. | | | I have been a big fan of all of Joe Jackson's albums' but this one is my favourite. | | | For what it's worth, Jackson himself, in his excellent book "A Cure For Gravity," names this album and Night and Day as his two best works....that alone should make it worth a listen. |
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| | Powells.com Interviews - Joe Jackson |
| | Hear Joe Jackson talk about his new book on Real Audio. | | | The last album I made for Virgin sold about 150,000 or 200,000 copies which, considering the kind of record it was and the fact that it wasn't promoted very well, is actually pretty good, I thought. | | | Jackson: There's a live album coming out in February, hopefully. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Steppin' Out [the Very Best of Joe Jackson]: Music |
| | This album is a must for any musician's collection. | | | His songs are stylised by biting down-to-earth-but-clever lyrics that you want to play to your friends to show you heard it first and really well-organised lasting quality music from an era when musicians learned their trade rather than hacked out scrap pieces from someone elses brainworks. | | | The less is more approach to the production of the album works wonders. |
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| | Amazon.com: Joe Jackson - Live in Tokyo: DVD |
| | Joe is fantastic, the band is tight, and the sound is great. | | | Joe Jackson Live in Tokyo has always been one of the better concert videos on the market. | | | After all, he recorded the Big World album (from which this tour video comes) in front of an audience that wasn't allowed to clap until a few seconds after the songs were over. |
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| | Kimmel Center, Inc. > News Releases > Rock Guitarist Todd Rundgren and Singer/Songwriter Joe Jackson Added to ... |
| | Like Gershwin, Jackson possesses a restless musical imagination that has found him straddling musical genres unapologetically, disinclined to pick one style and stick to it. | | | He released up to two albums a year either as a solo artist or with his band Utopia, while producing acclaimed, successful records for artists as diverse as Badfinger, Meat Loaf, Grand Funk Railroad, the New York Dolls, and XTC. | | | Or is he David Ian Jackson, L.R.A.M. (Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music), who composes and conducts instrumental albums of contemporary classical music such as 1987’s Will Power and 1999’s Grammy-winning Symphony No. 1? |
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| | Boulder Weekly Buzz UnCharted |
| | The result was a new tour, a 25th-anniversary DVD, and Volume 4 (Restless/Ryko), released in early March, a double album with 11 new songs and a live bonus disc of redone 1970s material. | | | After much internal debate, and 20 some years, Jackson reformed the original Joe Jackson Band that exploded onto the music scene in 1978 and broke up three years later in 1980 when Jackson left for other musical pursuits. | | | The live disc was recorded during seven warm-up shows in England last September before Jackson joined original members Graham Maby (bass), Gary Sanford (guitar), and Dave Houghton (drums) in the studio for 10 days to record Volume 4. |
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| | The Audio Files |
| | Of course, on the way to and from the show I played Night and Day II in the car.Then, once we got home, I brought the CD in and listened to it on the stereo while Jessica phoned her college friend Molly to discuss the performance. | | | As Joe Jackson is my favorite musician, I would have loved to go to the show. | | | Joe played almost every song from Night and Day and from Night and Day II. |
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| | PublicAffairs Books: A CURE FOR GRAVITY |
| | Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; playing his first piano gigs to audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and life on the road with long-forgotten club bands. | | | That reputation is bound to be shattered by A Cure for Gravity, Jackson's enormously entertaining and self-revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, London's punk and new wave scenes, and the brink of pop stardom. | | | Since the release of his first smash bestselling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music business fashion. |
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| | DJC.COM: EMP to open with a bang , provided by Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce |
| | Jackson is slated to play several songs solo before teaming up with Jones. | | | Dedicated to exploring creativity and innovation in American popular music, EMP is a new kind of museum designed to capture and reflect the essence of rock 'n' roll, its roots in jazz, soul, gospel, country and the blues, as well as rock music's influence on hip-hop, punk and other recent genres. | | | Homegrown heavy metal band Queensryche, British pop musician Joe Jackson, and 11 other acts have been added to the event. |
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| | Joe Jackson Net |
| | Since the beginning of the 80’ies the British songwriter and composer Joe Jackson has lived more or less permanently in New York, which has been a great inspiration to his music. | | | So she listened to it and then the phone rang one day and I picked it up and the voice said (Joe imitates MF’s rusty voice); “Hello. | | | How much to you let the musicians become a part of the recording process. |
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| | Joe Jackson |
| | Interview: Singer Joe Jackson discusses his musical career and his new CD (Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)) | | | In 1979, at the height of new wave, Jackson released his debut album, | | | Following graduation, he performed with a band named Arms and Legs, and later worked as the musical director for the Portsmouth Playboy Club. |
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| | Joe Jackson Net |
| | The song, which can be downloaded as an MP3 file or ordered as a CD, is available from Monday 1 March via FOREST Online (click here). | | | Buy your Joe Jackson CDs, DVDs, videos and books at Amazon | | | "I'm one of those songwriters who writes about anything and everything," says Jackson. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: Joe Jackson's birthday |
| | I think Parker just isn't nearly as good a songwriter or as broadly talented a musician and bandleader as the other two. | | | Actually, I'd say Jackson was competitive for the first half dozen albums or so. | | | Some of that may be because Elvis Costello sucked all the air out of the room for new wave singer-songwriters from England in the late '70s. |
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| | NewBeats: Joe Jackson Band |
| | Having spent the last ten years avoiding making conventional rock music, Joe Jackson surprisingly brings back the old gang that recorded the man's first three and best records for this Volume 4. | | | As proof of that, the bonus disc that accompanies this set contain recent live performances of classic tracks I'm the Man, "One More time," "Is She Really Going Out with Him," and "Got the Time" (Jackson can still deliver the song's "rap" at breakneck speed). | | | It's kind of refreshing that this eclectic musician returns to his New Wave/post-punk roots, yet Volume 4 avoids the nostalgia and retreading of classic Jackson albums like Look Sharp and I'm The Man. |
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| | The Moth: 2002 Performances |
| | Joe Jackson, musician, creator of the music label Manticore, and author (A Cure for Gravity). | | | Suzanne Vega, musician (Suzanne Vega, Songs in Red and Gray) and author. | | | Kimya Dawson, performer in the band The Moldy Peaches. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: J: Jackson, Joe |
| | Joe Jackson Lyrics - The man who wrote "The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy" - find the lyrics to all of Joe Jackson's songs in one location. | | | RollingStone.com: Joe Jackson - Includes biography, news, discography, and album reviews. | | | Top: Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: J: Jackson, Joe |
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| | Shoeless Joe Jackson -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Joe Glaser, Armstrong's manager and friend, convinced the musician to do more singing. | | | Official home page of this pianist, pop songwriter, and film composer known for his eclectic musical style. | | | The youngest man to serve as prime minister of Canada was Joe Clark, who led his Conservative party to victory in the elections of May 22, 1979. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Night And Day [Gold Disc] - Joe Jackson (Rock) at Epinions.com |
| | Anyway, so I basically just brought this home thinking I would give those two songs a spin and forget about it soon after, but I decided to give his other songs a chance. | | | It sounded vaguely familiar, but I don't know if somebody has "covered" it, or if I just obliviosly heard it before. | | | I know Jackson has earned a lot of acclaim as a musician and even gets compared to some I don't mind (Elvis Costello, for example), so I thought there might be something good on there. |
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| | The FORCES International Honour Committee - Joe Jackson |
| | A new live album, AFTERLIFE, is to be released in March 2004. | | | Jackson is a classically-trained musician and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. | | | JOE JACKSON is one of the most exciting and innovative musicians to emerge from the British ‘New Wave’ scene of the late 70s / early 80s. |
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| | Joe Jackson's Influence And Michael Jackson's Success |
| | As for Michael Jackson, from what I have seen in the movie version of their life story, he would have been a success anyway, for people in the music business were aware of his talent as a singer/musician from his beginnings. | | | Sometimes we have to give credit to whom credit is due, in this case, their father who wanted a differnt life for his kids as most parents do. | | | With a superb voice and dancing skills to match, it is eveident that sooner or later, Michael Jackson would have attained success, and if not for his father's influence, it would have just happened much later on in Michael's life, but it would have occurred, nevertheless. |
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| | Cover Art: Joe Jackson - Look Sharp |
| | His music continued to evolve and grow and he's still producing wonderful albums. | | | A musician, a poet, but mostly a story teller. | | | This one in particular is full of fast pop tunes and slow stories of love won and lost, reggae influenced tales of folls in love and so on. |
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| | To the Best of Our Knowledge |
| | Stewart Lee Allen, In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food (Ballantine) | | | Musician Joe Jackson talks with Jim Fleming about his concept album "Heaven and Hell" which is based on the Seven Deadly Sins. | | | Musician Joe Jackson will tell us how lust, gluttony and the other sins inspired his album Heaven and Hell. |
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| | Joe Jackson Artist Info >> liveDaily |
| | Live Review: Joe Jackson Band in West Hollywood, CA | | | In his 1999 memoir, -A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin as a musician who kept one foot in the popular and one in the classical realms of music. | | | Josh Kelley at the Roxy in W. Hollywood, CA |
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| | Joe Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Joseph Jackson, father and manager of the Jackson 5 |
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| | VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Joe Jackson: Steppin' Out - The Videos : Main |
| | British pop musician Joe Jackson evolved from a new wave firebrand to an eclectic sophisticate who blended Latin and jazz accents into his carefully crafted melodies. | | | Joe Jackson: Steppin' Out -- The Videos features performances of 12 of Jackson's best tunes, featuring seven concept videos (including "I'm the Man," "Real Men," a... | | | British pop musician Joe Jackson evolved from a new wave firebrand to an eclectic sophisti... |
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| | Joe Jackson: Is He Really Going Out With Them? |
| | Joe Jackson, whose hit records include 'Is She Really Going Out With Him?', 'I'm The Man' and 'It's Different For Girls', says the New York smoking ban was the 'final straw' that made him decide to leave the States and come home. | | | Jackson had previously described FOREST Online, the FOREST website, as 'a ray of light in the gathering darkness'. | | | A GRAMMY award-winning musician, who is returning to Britain after 20 years in the United States, has joined the Supporters Council of the smokers' lobby group FOREST. |
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| | Joe Jackson |
| | Pianist in a similar vein to Elvis Costello; hits include Is She Really Going Out With Him and Stepping Out. | | | Not the father of the Jackson Five, that is a different Joe Jackson. | | | Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile |
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