''Fast Forward'' is the 19th studio album by

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singer-songwriter Joe Jackson. The album and tracklist were officially announced via Jackson's official website and was scheduled for a mid-fall release. The record was later released worldwide on 2 October 2015. Excluding his classical releases and film work, the album is his thirteenth studio project. The album was developed out of plans for a series of four-track EPs, each relating to a specific city. Eventually, the EPs were combined and arranged into a full-length studio album. The four cities represented are

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, and

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, with each of the city's specific tracks having been arranged and recorded there. Jackson worked with a different set of musicians in each location. There are two covers on the album, a remake of

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's " See No Evil", and a rendition of the 1930s German cabaret song "Good Bye Johnny". On 14 July 2015, Jackson released "A Little Smile" as an album teaser via the Caroline Music

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channel. On 13 August the album's first single, the titular "Fast Forward", was uploaded on

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Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Joe Jackson, except where noted.

Personnel

; Musicians * Joe Jackson :-- Performing on the New York recording :*

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:* Brian Blade - drums :*

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- bass, vocals :-- Performing on the Amsterdam recording :* Aram Kersbergen - bass :* Benedikt Enzler -

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

:* Stefan Kruger - drums :* Mitchell Sink - vocals :* Guido Nijs -

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

:* Jan Van Duikeren -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

:* Edith Van Moergastel -

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:* Borika Van Den Booren, Michael Waterman -

:* Claus Tofft -

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:-- Performing on the Berlin recording :*

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- bass :* Earl Harvin - drums :* Dirk Berger - guitar :* Markus Ehrlich -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

:* Dima Bondarev - trumpet :-- Performing on the New Orleans recording :* Donald Harrison, Jr. - alto saxophone :* Robert Mercurio - bass :* Stanton Moore - drums :* Jeffrey Raines - guitar :* Big Sam Williams -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

:* John Michael Bradford - trumpet ; Production * Joe Jackson - arrangements, producer * Patrick 'Pat' Dillett - recording engineer (New York) * Kasper Frenkel - recording engineer (Amsterdam) * Misha Kachkachishvili - recording engineer (New Orleans)

Charts

References

External links

Fast Forward
album information a
''The Joe Jackson Archive''
{{Authority control 2015 albums Joe Jackson (musician) albums