{"id":8737,"date":"2015-10-27T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2015-10-21T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:12:21","slug":"album-mini-review-joe-jackson-fast-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/album-mini-review-joe-jackson-fast-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Joe Jackson &#8212; Fast Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jj_ff.jpg\" alt=\"jj_ff\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jj_ff.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jj_ff-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/jj_ff-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>File next to: Steely Dan, David Bowie, Todd Rundgren<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B0130J9PY4&#038;asins=B0130J9PY4&#038;linkId=7V47EM3MGZAQIFST&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though he came onto the scene during the \u201cnew wave\u201d era, Joe Jackson&#8217;s musical concerns have long been more erudite than most. For years he skipped around, skirting the edges of dilettantism. He avoided critical barbs by dint of his authenticity; he really meant it with his forays into Afro-Cuban styles (<em>Night and Day<\/em>), jump blues (<em>Jumpin&#8217; Jive*<\/em>), modern classical (<em>Will Power<\/em>), and ska\/reggae (<em>Beat Crazy<\/em>). But all the while, he&#8217;s had a signature style of his own, one as seamless and polished in its own way as <strong>Steely Dan<\/strong>. So after the critically acclaimed <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=2970\"><strong>Duke Ellington<\/strong> project (2012&#8217;s <em>The Duke<\/em>)<\/a>, Jackson returns to classic form for <em>Fast Forward<\/em>. Its title notwithstanding, <em>Fast Forward<\/em> is redolent of his earlier work, especially 1991&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Laughter &amp; Lust<\/em>, but that fact says more about the timeless and enduring nature of the man&#8217;s music than anything else.<\/p>\n<p><em>An edited version of this review was published previously in the<\/em> Colorado Springs Independent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Steely Dan, David Bowie, Todd Rundgren Though he came onto the scene during the \u201cnew wave\u201d era, Joe Jackson&#8217;s musical concerns have long been more erudite than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[1166],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-joe-jackson","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}