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    Posted: March 18 2006 at 05:42
HAMMER, JAN* "The First Seven Days"
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Posted 7:36:17 PM EST, 3/17/2006

4 stars   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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 18:10

Thanks Dick - I didn't mean to get hung up on labels, & I wasn't meaning to be critical on  categorisation, all I was trying to say to anyone picking up this album who knows of Jan Hammer's work on say Mahavishnu or the Miami Vice theme, please don't have pre-conceptions!

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