Jan Hammer: Jazz Rock or Electronica

   First a note of thanks - it was only through recommendations on this site that I heard of this album.

Labels can be unfair - there's really only two kinds of music, good or bad - but if we are attaching labels then this album strictly falls under the category of symphonic rather than jazz/fusion.





Phil

Nice review.
I agree with you comment as what genre of  music, The First Seven Days should be classified - hardly jazz rock, but then I think "electronica" doesn't  do justice (neither would it do justice to Wendy Carlos's catalogue of albums) - a term which suggests to me more of the early hypno-pap (but I still play it!!!) of J-MJ. This is a problem of the way we are required to complete info about a band or a musician before their entry into PA - it works for the majority but with multi-talented musicians the system starts to have hiccups. There is discussion elsewhere on the site about giving more flexibility to artist/genre definitions - by providing several markers to that artist/band's music - but I'll wait and see.

Another example with the potential to confusion is Soft Machine; proto-prog/psychedelia, jazz rock, Canterbury, even experimental electronica - and even blue eyed soul in their early days.