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From: mr@isrnix.UUCP ( Michael Regoli )
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Seeking advice on Joe Jackson's "Body & Soul"
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Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 10:37:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 12 10:37:12 1984
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I am looking for an intelligent verdict of Joe Jackson's latest
album, "Body & Soul."   Stereo Review gave the LP "Best of the
Month" in July's issue:

	>>	"Apart from legitimizing naked emotion,
	>>	Joe Jackson has done another wonderful
	>>	thing with 'Body & Soul' - revived the
	>>	lost art of liner notes...they are 
	>>	informative and insightful in the trad-
	>>	ition of Leonard Feather, Nat Hentoff,
	>>	and Ralph Gleason.  In fact, the entire
	>>	package - patterned exactly after a 
	>>	Sonny Rollins series on Blue Note records,
	>>	right down to the duotone cover, liner
	>>	topography, and thicker than average disc
	>>	inside - has the look and feel of Fifties
	>>	jazz."

My question is: Is this *the* Joe Jackson album to have in one's
collection?  And, who is Sonny Rollins?  Is he still around?
Or, for that matter, who are Feather, Hentoff and Gleason?

I love jazz music, but quite honestly, I've never heard of them.
I would like to enjoy these guys, but not necessarily "through"
Joe Jackson.  Whereas I like Joe and his music, I don't feel
he can "copy" these artists and their styles.  Have you compared
the album covers?  My god, I think Joe went a little too far.
They are *exactly* the same!  Save their faces and maybe the
brand of cigarette they hold in their hands.  As one letter to
Rolling Stone (RS #424 - June 21, 1984) put it: "...[He] betrays
an influence..."

Thanks for the insight!

-- 
    Michael Regoli	            { ihnp4|inuxc|pur-ee }!isrnix!mr
     [circa. 1960]
    Institute for Social Research   
    Indiana University - Bloomington