Watching Sue Hadjopoulos on percussion and Larry Tolfree on drums, one would think they’d been playing with Joe Jackson for eons, and certainly working together for even longer. Neither of the above assumptions is accurate. Tolfree has been working with Jackson for only two albums in as many years, and Hadjopoulos has been a group member only since March, 1982 and one album. Their backgrounds are as different as night and day; Larry born in England with little formal training and Sue a New Yorker with an extensive musical education. Sue was initially classically trained on flute, taking private lessons for six years. Her father, however, was a drummer, and she became so interested in the drums that she lost interest in the flute. At 17, she played her first professional gig as a drummer and shortly thereafter, she bought some congas, then timbales. While attending Columbia University, where she […]