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Joe Jackson To Release Live CD  December
30, 2003 - If you missed the Joe Jackson band reunion tour this year
don't fret the singer plans to release a live CD in 2004. The as yet
untitled album will feature recordings from San Francisco, Los Angeles,
San Diego and Anaheim, California. Koch will also release a live Joe
Jackson set in January, simply titled "Live" the disc will
feature fourteen tracks from April 2001 shows in Portland and Seattle.
The disc was previously exclusively available through Jackson's site
under the title "Two Rainy Nights."Joe Jackson Plans Second U.S. Tour  July
16, 2003 - The Joe Jackson band reunion tour was a big hit so Jackson
and company are set to return for a second U.S. tour due to kick off
Aug. 9 in Hartford, Connecticut. The reunion band featuring bassist
Graham Maby, guitarist Gary Sanford, drummer Dave Houghton, and Jackson
on vocals and piano have done some European gigs in Glasgow, Belgium
and a stop yesterday at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival. Here's
what Jackson told Billboard Magazine, "I think people really
like this band and never expected to see it again, so it's a treat,
It's certainly a treat for us, and I think that the feeling is infectious,
because we're having a really great time. And it's worked out so much
better than we'd thought. After about the third gig, me and Gary kind
of looked at each other and said, 'Can you believe this? Can you believe
it's been this long?"Here are Jackson's upcoming tour dates: July 15: Montreux, Switzerland (Jazz Festival) July 16: Stuttgart, Germany (Freilichtbuhne) July 18: Tarvisio, Italy (No Borders Festival) July 22: Nice (Jazz Festival) July 23: Zurich (Live at Sunset) July 25: Leipzig, Germany (Parkbuhne) July 26: Hannover, German (Parkbuhne) July 27: Herford, Germany (Stadtfest) July 30: Hamburg (Stadtpark) Aug. 1: Mainz, Germany (Phoenixhalle) Aug. 2: Werchter, Belgium (Werchter Park) Aug. 9: Hartford, Conn. (Webster Theatre) Aug. 10: Boston (Avalon Theatre) Aug. 12: New York (Roseland) Aug. 13: Baltimore (Recher Theatre) Aug. 15: Atlanta (The Roxy) Aug. 16: St. Louis (Mississippi Nights) Aug. 17: Chicago (Congress Theatre) Aug. 19: Englewood, Colo. (Gothic Theatre) Aug. 22: Portland, Ore. (Crystal Ballroom) Aug. 23: Seattle (Showbox) Aug. 24: Vancouver (Commodore Ballroom) Aug. 27: San Francisco (Warfield) Aug. 28: Los Angeles (House of Blues) Joe Jackson Has
a Laugh
 June
1, 2003 - I guess a lot of us just didn't get the joke according
to Joe Jackson. The singer who's best known for hits like "Is
She Really Going out with Him" and "Breaking Us in Two"
says he got the angry young man tag early on his career when he
really wasn't angry at all. In fact he says a lot of his hits were
intended to be humorous. He says, "Is She Really Going Out
With Him," labeled him angry and bitter but it's actually a
joke song. The tune was recently remade by Sugar Ray and who knows
maybe they'll have more luck with the punch line! Jackson has a
new album of his own called "Volume Four." His "Night
and Day" album is still a mainstay on Smooth Jazz radio with
the two hits "Breaking Us In Two" and "Speppin' Out." |
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