YESTERDAY BOULEVARD

I really did not know anything about this single released by EDDIE JOBSON as soloist in 1976 until it was included recently in the Prog Archives`s discography database .It was recorded and released after ROXY MUSIC`s split in 1976 and before he joined FRANK ZAPPA`s band in the same year. Maybe this solo single by Jobson is very hard to find now. Anyway, I could listen several times to both sides of this single in the web, so now I can write a review about it.

Both sides of this single are instrumental musical pieces.

"Yesterday Boulevard" : it has keyboards (mainly a clavinet a a few synthesisers) and electric violins playing a repetitive riff. This musical piece has a more or less fast beat, and it sounds to me like Jobson was trying to have an almost commercial musical piece for this single. The main musical style of this musical piece is Jazz-Rock with some Funky music influences, very related to some of the music which was played in the mid seventies in the radio. I also could find some inevitable similarities and /or influences from some of the music from JEAN-LUC PONTY , maybe more due to the use of the electric violins. Simon Phillips does a good job playing the drums. It is a good musical piece, a bit commercial in sound, but good anyway.

"On a Still Night": the main instrument in this musical piece is an electric piano. It is a slow musical piece on which Jobson also played electric violin. Phillips also played drums. Again, this musical piece sounds very mid seventies in musical style, very Jazz-Rock influenced, with also some musical influences from JEAN-LUC PONTY .

A good single. Maybe a bit outdated.