New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Razor & Tie Media Relations) Joe Jackson's new album The Duke (Razor & Tie) has debuted at #1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Album Chart and #1 on the Billboard Current Jazz Album Chart as well as #93 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart selling over 4600 albums. Jackson is confirmed to perform on Late Night With
Jimmy Fallon Friday July 13th with The
Roots and he will also be featured in coming weeks on NPR's All Things Considered. His Duke Ellington tribute album has been met to rave reviews from Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, Onion AV Club, etc. Purchase The Duke on iTunes HERE
Guest artists on The Duke include Iggy Pop, Sharon Jones,
Regina Carter, ?uestlove, Christian McBride, Steve Vai, and many more. In support of the album, Joe Jackson and the Bigger Band are hitting the road this
September on a North American tour and includes musicians
Regina Carter,
Allison Cornell,
Jesse Murphy, Adam Rogers, Sue Hadjopoulos and Nate Smith.
The Duke is a decidedly unconventional salute to Ellington, demonstrating the timeless brilliance of his classic compositions while showcasing Jackson's sublime skills as an arranger, instrumentalist and vocal interpreter. Although it's only the second time he's recorded an album not comprised of his own compositions, The Duke is nonetheless a deeply personal project for Jackson, whose longstanding affinity for Ellington's pioneering spirit has served as a key inspiration throughout his own three-decades-plus career.
The Duke finds the iconoclastic English singer/composer/arranger/keyboardist and five-time Grammy nominee interpreting 15 Ellington classics over the course of ten tracks, interspersing melodic and rhythmic elements of various compositions in a manner that's consistent with Ellington's own freewheeling approach. Rather than emulating the songs' original big-band settings, Jackson filters the material through his own musical imagination while exploring an assortment of unexpected grooves and textures. The resulting album is a seamless fusion of sounds and styles, whose abundant sense of playfulness is consistent with Ellington's boundary-breaking attitude. Though The Duke is a tribute album, it's also very much a Joe Jackson album, consistent with his long-standing sense of musical adventure.
Joe Jackson Tour Dates
09/15: Bethesda, MD -
Music Centre at Strathmore
09/16: Greenville, SC - Peace Center Hall
09/18: Glenside, PA - Keswick Theatre
09/19: Boston, MA - Wilbur Theatre
09/21: New York, NY - Town Hall
09/22: New York, NY - Town Hall
09/23: Westhampton Beach, NY - Performing Arts Center
09/25: Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theatre
09/27: Ann Arbor, MI - Michigan Theater
09/28: Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
09/29: Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater
10/02: Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
10/04: Saratoga, CA - The Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre at Montalvo
10/05: San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill Masonic Center
10/06: Los Angeles, CA - Orpheum Theatre
