FAST FORWARD

Joe Jackson will be releasing a new album Fast Forward on Oct 2nd and touring the US this fall - playing new and old material, solo and with a new band. ??Fast Forward was produced and arranged by Jackson, and features four sets of four songs recorded in four different cities - New York, New Orleans, Berlin and Amsterdam - each with a different set of incredible supporting musicians. You can listen to A Little Smile (a track from the Amsterdam sessions) by clicking here:?https://youtu.be/biGNDTd90PA ??SESSION 1: NEW YORK??Jackson has called New York home for many years. He recorded these tracks with Bill Frisell on guitar, Brian Blade on drums, his longtime bassist Graham Maby, and jazz violin star Regina Carter. Along with three originals including the album's title track, these sessions also feature a cover of Television's See No Evil.??SESSION 2: AMSTERDAM??Distinguished by the most diverse instrumentation of the four sessions, Jackson is joined on these songs by frequent collaborators Stefan Kruger and Stefan Schmid from the band Zuco 103, the Concertgebouw orchestra, and the project's only guest vocalist, 14-year-old Mitchell Sink (from the cast of the Broadway musical Matilda.)??SESSION 3: BERLIN??Berlin is Jackson's second home, and he recorded here with two expatriate American musicians: acoustic bass master Greg Cohen (Tom Waits, Ornette Coleman, Bob Dylan) and Tindersticks drummer Earl Harvin. These sessions produced the album's second cover, Jackson's modern English take on the 1930s German 'Kabarett' song Good Bye Jonny.??SESSION 4: NEW ORLEANS??Jackson traveled to one of his favorite cities, New Orleans, to record with an all-local cast including three members of the funk band Galactic - drummer Stanton Moore, bassist Robert Mercurio, and guitarist Jeff Raines - and a horn section led by saxophonist Donald Harrison.??'Fast Forward' tracklist (all songs written by Joe Jackson unless noted)??New York?1. Fast Forward?2. If It Wasn't For You?3. See No Evil (Tom Verlaine)?4. Kings Of The City??Amsterdam?5. A Little Smile?6. Far Away?7. So You Say?8. Poor Thing??Berlin?9. Junkie Diva?10. If I Could See Your Face?11. The Blue Time?12. Good Bye Jonny (Peter Kreuder and Hans Fritz Beckmann)??New Orleans?13. Neon Rain?14. Satellite?15. Keep On Dreaming?16. Ode To Joy