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The Duke, the new album from Joe Jackson, available June 26th, 2012. Preorder this bundle now to receive the following:
The Duke CD, a 12x12 hand-numbered, album artwork lithograph and a The Duke T-Shirt.

The Duke finds the iconoclastic singer/composer/arranger/keyboardist and five-time Grammy nominee Joe Jackson interpreting a series of Ellington classics over the course of ten tracks, interspersing melodic and rhythmic elements of various compositions in a manner that’s consistent with Ellington’s own freewheeling approach.

The Duke features guest performances/duets with Iggy Pop, Sharon Jones, Iranian singer Sussan Deyhim, Lilian Vieira (from the Brazilian/Dutch collective Zuco 103), violinist Regina Carter, bassist Christian McBride, Steve Vai, drummer Ahmir ‘?uestlove’ Thompson (The Roots) and Jackson band members Vinnie Zummo (guitar) and Sue Hadjopoulos (percussion)