"Isfahan" and "Caravan" first of all form a smoothen, good introduction to the plate, but at the first Medley seems Joe Jackson is willing voice misplaced. Even by the following "Mood Indigo" there was quite seen better versions. "Rockin 'in Rhythm" annoying quickly Kirmesorgel. And so it continues: Quite good versions of "Duke" -Stücken ("I Is not Got Nothin 'But the Blues / Do Nothin' Til You Hear From Me") alternate with inconsequential ("Perdido / Satin Doll") or even annoying versions ("The Mooche / Black and Tan Fantasy"). A wink can be seen in "It Do not Mean a Thing (If It Is not Got That Swing)" together with Iggy Pop.
All in all, this CD quite immature and worth only three stars compared to many other works of Joe Jackson -. But only in comparison with himself because one with big new wave plates such as "Look Sharp", "I'm the "ingenious pop like on" Night and day "," Body and Soul "," Big World "," Laughter and Lust "or" Rain ", with more Abseitigem, ambitious as" willpower "" Heaven & Hell "or" Symphony No. 1 "he has already set his own bar very high. And he did it again and again even slightly below, "Night Music" or "Night and day II" as examples. Or indeed here. Where: Most is the idiosyncratic, eccentric Briton, who has never cared about critics, far above the average - but fails now and then on his own claim.
