''Symphony No. 1'' is the 14th studio album by
Joe Jackson, released in 1999. Jackson received a
Grammy
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for
Best Pop Instrumental Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (previously: Best Pop Instrumental Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording arti ...
in
2001
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, after several unsuccessful nominations for previous work.
''Symphony No. 1'' was played by a band of
jazz
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and rock musicians including
Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for ...
and
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed ...
.
Track listing
All tracks were written, arranged and produced by
Joe Jackson.
Personnel
Musicians
*
Joe Jackson – acoustic piano, keyboards,
sampling,
computer sequencing
*
Steve Vai
Steven Siro Vai (; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for ...
– electric guitars
* Mat Fieldes – electric bass,
acoustic bass
The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar a ...
* Gary Burke – drums
*
Sue Hadjopoulos – percussion
*
Wessell Anderson
Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson (born 1966) is an American jazz alto and sopranino saxophonist.
Anderson grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, and played jazz early on at the urging of his father, who was a drummer. He played in loca ...
– alto saxophone
* Patti Monson –
flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...
*
Robin Eubanks
Robin Eubanks (born October 25, 1955) is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks. His uncles are jazz pianist Ray Bryant and bassist Tommy Bryant. His mother, Vera Eub ...
– trombone
*
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed ...
– trumpet
*
Mary Rowell – viola, violin,
electric violin
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Production
* Joe Jackson – arrangements, producer, liner notes
* Dan Gellert – associate producer, recording, mixing
* Sheldon Steiger – associate producer
* Anthony Ruotolo – assistant engineer
*
Ted Jensen
Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings, including the Eagles' ''Hotel California'', Green Day's '' American Idiot'' and Norah Jones' ''Come Away with Me''.
Biography
Ted ...
– mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
* Lisa Sharken – guitar technician
* Brian Coleman – production manager
*
P.R. Brown – art direction, design
* C. Winston Simone Management – management
Charts
References
External links
Symphony No. 1album information a
''The Joe Jackson Archive''
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1999 albums
Joe Jackson (musician) albums
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album