Joe Jackson & Elaine Caswell

Of the three angry young men that emerged in the British new wave movement of the early '80s, Joe Jackson was perhaps the most idiosyncratic. Classically trained, he went to considerable lengths to prove himself as a composer--often, he even seemed to have contempt for pop music itself. After establishing himself as a gifted songwriter with a pair of edgy new wave pop records, he quickly set out to prove his eclecticism, recording album-length tributes to reggae, jump blues, traditional pop and jazz. He has ventured into classical music several times. Following his 1987 classi...