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Jazz | 
| Artist: Queen
Label: Parlophone
Category: Music
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 3289
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077778949527
EAN: 0077778949527
ASIN: B000025KL5
Release Date: February 7, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Mustapha | | • | Fat Bottomed Girls | | • | Jealousy | | • | Bicycle Race | | • | If You Can't Beat Them | | • | Let Me Entertain You | | • | Dead On Time | | • | In Only Seven Days | | • | Dreamers Ball | | • | Fun It | | • | Leaving Home Ain't Easy | | • | Don't Stop Me Now | | • | More Of That Jazz |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 jazz April 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Possibly one of the best album's they ever made. Good heavy jazz/ rock throughout, good weird songs from Mercury, safe rock from Deacon, humourous silly stuff from Taylor and a few very good numbers from May.
Queen was always jazz and it still is. Great album.
JAZZ December 23, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Genius producer Roy Thomas Baker returns to twiddle the knobs on this seventh album by the greatest British band of the Seventies. It may have been a nightmare getting them in the studio at the same time, but when he did, they still rocked like bastards. 'Jazz' is an exuberant record awash with great melodies, stunning vocal performances from the Persian poppinjay and crunching axe wizardry courtesy of rock's most inventive guitarist. Highlights include the exhilarating high-speed mumbo jumbo of opener 'Mustapha', 'Fat Bottomed Girls', 'Bicycle Race', ballads 'Jealousy' and 'Dreamer's Ball' and the superlative 'Don't Stop Me Now'. Amazon's star rating system is entirely inadequate in such circumstances.
 Jazz is weird October 27, 2007
Mixed reviews at the time and now. But, like its predecessor, News of the world, this album DOES have a few hidden and not so hidden gems. Quality control issues are to the fore with a few turkeys in the grooves but Freddie's vocal does pull this album up by the scruff of its neck; he's never sounded better. Pity about the compressed production - with a looser feel and sound, this album could've been a gem!
Patchy 70s Queen album September 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like many, I was disappointed when I first heard Jazz. It's not a total write-off but it seems a lot more inconsistent than their first 6 albums. Standout tracks are Bicycle Race, Dead On Time, Let Me Entertain You and (best by a country mile) Don't Stop Me Now. The rest is ok'ish. The worst of all is the dreadful Roger Taylor song "More Of That Jazz" which plods for England then finishes with a montage of the album - the montage sounds like it has been edited on in someone's bedroom using a tape-recorder.
So in summary, it's not bad but it would have been so much better if 1 or 2 weaker songs were removed (especially the last track!).
Actually very good on recent listening... July 17, 2007
I bought this album on vinyl in the 70s and was a bit taken aback by the funk and pop stylings, expecting more heavy rock a la Night at the Races. However, viewed as part of the evolution to the national pop treasures that Queen eventually became this album stands up as quite an honest, earthy, jam session with sonic experimentation to the fore.
Others complain about the production - to me it sounds very crisp, despite the noted dynamic changes. It still actually sounds quite sharp (as in focussed, not out of tune) and spacy.
The mix of songs is great - lots of styles and Queen's obvious various talents are given full rein. All in all I would say this is better than the two albums that precede and succeed it and a great 70s rock milestone (whilst all around punk was to the - long overdue - fore). But this is still very good and has probably improved with age!
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