The Duke (Joe Jackson album)

The Duke
Studio album by Joe Jackson
Released	26 June 2012
Recorded	2011
Genre	Jazz
Length	47:38
Label	Razor & Tie
Producer	Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson chronology
Live at Rockpalast (2012)Live at Rockpalast2012 The Duke (2012) Steppin' Out - The Collection (2014)Steppin' Out - The Collection2014

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	59/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Consequence of Sound	D-[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

The Duke is the seventeenth studio album by English musician Joe Jackson. The album was released on 26 June 2012 by Razor & Tie Recordings.^[5][6]

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".^[1]

The album debuted at No. 93 on the Billboard 200,^[7] and No. 1 on the Top Jazz Albums chart,^[8] 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.^[9]

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 - synthesizers, drum programming, sound design,, on "Isfahan" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", Production Assistant for whole album.
• 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

References

External links

• The Duke album information at The Joe Jackson Archive

Joe Jackson
Studio albums	Look Sharp! I'm the Man Beat Crazy Jumpin' Jive Night and Day Body and Soul Big World Blaze of Glory Laughter & Lust Night and Day II Volume 4 Rain The Duke Fast Forward
Classical albums	Will Power Night Music Heaven & Hell Symphony No. 1
Soundtrack albums	Mike's Murder Tucker
Live albums	Live 1980/86 Summer in the City: Live in New York Two Rainy Nights Afterlife At the BBC Live in Germany 1980 Live Music - Europe 2010 Live at Rockpalast
Compilation albums	Stepping Out: The Very Best of Joe Jackson Joe Jackson - Greatest Hits This Is It! (The A&M Years 1979–1989) Joe Jackson - Collected Steppin' Out - The Collection
Notable singles	"Is She Really Going Out with Him?" "Sunday Papers" "One More Time" "I'm the Man" "It's Different for Girls" "The Harder They Come" "Beat Crazy" "Jumpin' Jive" "Steppin' Out" "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)" "Home Town"
Other songs	"Got the Time" "Come On" "In 20-0-3"
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