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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | November 4th 20 |
In fairness I should not have listened to this 77min long big band record right after Africa/Brass. This has some very high points and it rarely displeases, but it just feels a bit bloated especially in the middle. I generally am not a fan of big band in jazz and prefer more stripped down instrumentation, but 1-2 certainly make me love it with a badass album intro and just plenty of fun all round. 3 intelligently calms things down a bit. 4 is really cool and has some fever dream/horror vibes to it in the intro, but I feel like it does not belong there at all. Cool in a vacuum, but here it feels weird. It becomes more Coltranesque later on but there are still some meh bits. By 5 the big band sound is getting too much but in a vacuum the track is cool, and 6 has fun swing to it. 7 makes the album feel like a soundtrack with its storytelling potential, but the album was loosing me a bit at this point. Then 8 comes in with some fast paced city jazz that is quite jammy in places especially the final reprise, and 9 offers a nice piano break in the midtrack. 10 gives a more bluesy piano vibe, and is very successful in places and rather poor in other with patchworkiness giving that OST vibe again. I have mixed feelings about it as a concluding track. Nice listen, worth a check, thanks rellik! 3.85
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| 4.0 excellent | ariich | October 5th 14 |
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