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In his 1999 memoir, An end to Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage, Joe Jackson writes approvingly of George Gershwin being a musician who kept one foot in the favorite and one in the classical realms of music. Like Gershwin, Jackson possesses a restless musical creativity that has discovered him straddling musical …

Joe Jackson received the lion’s talk about of credit for his early basic albums (and understandably thus – he penned and sang all the paths), but bassist Graham Maby appeared to business lead the charge musically, while his bass was nearly used like a business lead instrument on lots of …