What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

^Have you listened to anything by the composer John Luther Adams SteveO? He won the Pullitzer for 'Become Ocean' recently. Similar, in a way.

Out of sheer curiosity, I've been listening to Joe Jackson's Symphony No. 1. Where does it belong? Classical is closest IMHO, so I choose this thread. However, it gets a bit wild and woolly along the way; there are echoes of allsorts here. It’s a great listen, very accessible, and as a matter of interest, Stevie Vai is guitarist of choice on this album - the trumpeter, Terence Blanchard.

The album earned a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental in 2001 - precisely twenty years after Jumpin’ Jive. Pop???! (They might’ve been having a JT heavy metal award moment, I think!) Not symphonic either it’s been argued, with only ten instruments, although it IS symphonic in structure.

Divided into four parts, this is the ‘Last Movement’, or ‘Variations’ –

[video=youtube;bSp6i0A9z3A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSp6i0A9z3A[/video]