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Title: "Acid Jazz" as in ACID (LSD-25)
Review: Well, first of all, let's understand that Trane was tripping regularly in '65 and '66, reading The Tibetan Book of The Dead, reading Hindu and Zen Buddhist books and also reading Indian mystics...I forget the names off hand.So, he and his band went to Seattle and recorded this at the Penthouse and then the next day they went up to Lynnwood, WA and recorded "OM".It's really hard to call this "Jazz". It's just free/energy music with little structure, and most listeners will have absolutely no clue how to hear this.I give it 4 stars for the intensity and the energy but docked 1 star for the indulgence. The 60's "New Thing" was pretty crazy sometimes and people started tuning out Jazz because they simply couldn't "grok" this stuff. So, now, we have Jazz comprising less than 1% of all music recorded. I love Trane and Ornette and Cecil, but, truthfully, they helped put Jazz into the museum, if you know what I mean...
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