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The Duke (Joe Jackson album)

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Released
  
26 June 2012

Length
  
47:38

Artist
  
Joe Jackson

Producer
  
Joe Jackson

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
2011

Live at Rockpalast (2012)
  
The Duke (2012)

Release date
  
26 June 2012

Label
  
Razor & Tie

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The Duke is the seventeenth studio album by English musician Joe Jackson. The album was released on 26 June 2012 by Razor & Tie Recordings.

Contents

The album is a tribute to Duke Ellington, the American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra.

Upon its release, The Duke received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 59 based on 10 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews".

The album debuted at No. 93 on the Billboard 200, and No. 1 on the Top Jazz Albums chart, selling around 5,000 copies in its first week of release. The album has sold 13,000 copies in the United States as of September 2015.

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Track Listing

All songs arranged and produced by Joe Jackson.

Personnel

Musicians
  • Joe Jackson – piano, keyboards, stylophone, synthesizer, accordion, tom-toms, melodica, vibraphone
  • Steve Vai - guitar on "Isfahan" and "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy"
  • Kris Ingram Lanzaro - synthesizer on "Isfahan"
  • Sussan Deyhim - vocals on "Caravan"
  • Vinnie Zummo - guitars on "Caravan", "I'm Beginning to See the Light / Take the "A" Train / Cotton Tail" and "Mood Indigo", harmonica on "Mood Indigo", "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)", "Perdido / Satin Doll", "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
  • Mary Rowell - violin on "Caravan", "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" and "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy"
  • Cornelius Dufallo - violin on "Caravan", "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy" and "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)"
  • Ralph Farris - viola on "Caravan", "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" and "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy"
  • Dorothy Lawson - cello on "Caravan", "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" and "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy"
  • Christian McBride - bass guitar on "Caravan", "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", acoustic bass on "I'm Beginning to See the Light / Take the "A" Train / Cotton Tail" and "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues / Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me"
  • Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson - drums on "Caravan", "I'm Beginning to See the Light / Take the "A" Train / Cotton Tail", "Mood Indigo", "Rockin' In Rhythm", "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues / Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me" and "The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy"
  • Sue Hadjopoulos – congas and bongos on "Caravan", "I'm Beginning to See the Light / Take the "A" Train / Cotton Tail" and "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)"
  • Regina Carter - violin on "I'm Beginning to See the Light / Take the "A" Train / Cotton Tail", "Mood Indigo" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
  • Tony Aiello - piccolo on "Rockin' In Rhythm"
  • Damon Bryson - sousaphone on "Rockin' In Rhythm"
  • Sharon Jones - vocals on "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues / Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me"
  • Kirk Douglas - guitar on "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues / Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me"
  • Lilian Vieira - vocals on "Perdido / Satin Doll", 'doo wah' vocals on "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
  • Stefan Kruger - drums and percussion on "Perdido / Satin Doll" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
  • Iggy Pop - vocals on "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
  • Stefan Schmid - synthesizer on "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
    • Production
  • Joe Jackson - arrangements, producer, recording engineer
  • Akahiro Nishimura - assistant recording engineer
  • Ted Jensen - mastering engineer
  • Ed Sherman - art direction
  • Frank Veronsky - photography
  • Maurice Seymour, William P. Gottlieb - photos of Duke Ellington

    • Songs

    1Isfahan5:04
    2Caravan6:02
    3Ellington Medley: Cotton Tail / I Didn't Know About You / Don't Get Around Much Any / I'm Beginning to See the Light3:35

    References

    The Duke (Joe Jackson album) Wikipedia
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