05/25/2025
Last weekend at the .vinyl fair (pt 2) I ran into some dope sellers who I chatted with about jazz and hip hop for a bit. I was introduced to this incredible piece of music that I haven't quite been able to fully explain my fascination with yet.
It looks rather typical of what I have come to understand as . All the white students with the sprinkle of color thrown in. The way they are dressed, their poses, etc. It seems like it may have a little rhythm, but based on the it could be missing something lol. One of the sellers pulled it up on his phone and played a few seconds of (which is one of my favorite pieces) and I've been hooked on unpacking it ever since. Noting the pattern of how my music obsessions starts, I decided to see if this lp had any reissues (the seller has an og copy and they go for a few hundred bucks easy). I found a French reissue that I feel is very good. I don't know much about the
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But this lp is a beautiful piece of music.
In conclusion, this is a third stream record, in my opinion, but there is something very different about it. It could be the era in which it was produced in the early 80s (when not only third stream but jazz as a whole was starting to fade into becoming background noise)or it could be the instruments played on this record. The thing that makes it classical sounding in my opinion is the voices because the musicians are definitely on jazz time.
That doesn't capture all my feelings or thoughts about this lp. I'm left feeling like is there something missing or is there something out of place, over done?? I may never know. That's not the purpose here either.
