Unvarnished and raw

The 1978 published plate Jazz is the seventh studio work of four musicians from the UK. After the publication of "A Night At The Opera", "A Day At The Races" and "News of the World", who were all very successful, of course it was hard again to release an album with a similarly high status. Finally, can not be on each plate a megahit such as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Somebody To Love" or "We Are The Champions".
The fact that the band has done in terms of possibly hit potential at "Jazz" by their standards a little heavier than usual, proves the story. "Jazz" is one of the (more) lesser-known Queen plates, and the hits "Fat Bottomed Girls", " Bicycle Race "and" Do not Stop Me Now "are compared to the above-mentioned songs may not be quite as legendary (which does not mean that they are bad or so-called flops were).
Despite this, the handset has it once again dealing with a quite outstanding album. Because "Jazz" not only has a lesser reputation than most of his predecessors works, it also sounds very different and should be for music lovers of particular interest thus. The atmosphere that is spreading on the album, acts unvarnished, something raw and less pathetic and monumental than you're used to at Queen typically. Why is that so? In some practices that were otherwise rather common and typical of Queen, was omitted. So sounds Freddie Mercury singing for example much rougher and more aggressive than usual. For Brian Mays Guitar His is often considered the same thing. somewhat turgid and like a siren sounding guitar solos, which also often are indeed very appropriate and beautiful, lacking on "Jazz" almost without exception. His sound has a direct, straightforward and honest, almost chunky yet virtuoso. This alone already gives the impression that the music is somehow harder than "conventional" Queen albums and in fact. "Dead On Time", "If You Can not Beat Them," "Let Me Entertain You", "Fat Bottomed Girls "and even the beginnings of" Mustapha "are pretty die-hard rock songs, which then confirm the first about the atmosphere of the album feeling mediated by hard facts. As highlights of the CD must be mentioned (last piece) here "Mustapha" (as Eingangslied), "Bicycle Race" and "more of the Jazz. Especially "Mustapha" shines through an intelligent and lively originality. A song that, in my opinion, suggestively tells something about Freddie Mercury's Arab origin or at least a little can feel that in this culture were part of his roots, and the therefore seems to me very exciting.
"Jazz" is a really good CD, which is characterized by solid work. They largely dispensed exalted posturing but without boring or stuffy to be. This plate Queen proved perhaps for the first time the full extent that they are not reducible to a single dimension were. A circumstance that brings the album in my eyes the best possible score.