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It's a bit like Jazz (and to a lessor extent most other forms of music) from before the 1980's, where they started that horrific over-production which made it sound plasticy and homogenous.


I'd love to hear an example of this recent jazz, if you have one.


Pretty much any post 1980's Jazz. You can start off comparing Miles Davis's Amandla with anything he was doing in the '60s or '70s (Live Evil, On the Corner, Cellar Door Sessions etc). Herbie Hancock is another one who did stuff both pre and post 1980.

Amandla still has some great tracks, and there's some great post 1980s Jazz out there. But it always sounds like too much attention has been paid to how much reverb there is, how much echo on the drums, and to limit how much the guitar -if present- deviates from permitted parameters. Jazz from the '50s to '70s doesn't have these problems, and a lot of it was extremely well recorded, compared with all the dreadful sounding recordings of most rock from the '60s and '70s.


"Smooth Jazz" can die in a fire




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