Bennie Maupin and Dr Patrick Gleeson   Driving While Black...
3.0
good
Release Date: 1998
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3.0 goodBedex | November 19th 20

I frankly wasn't too keen on this one. I can't really put my finger on it, but even for jazz fusion it feels a bit too messy and all over the place, like the instruments are trying to pull the music in different directions instead of cohesively. This is particularly true of the synths/keyboards which I find overbearing a lot of the time, and I would bet good money this Dr Gleeson person was behind the keys. Some parts try to be spicy, some draemy, and idk the first couple tracks got me out of it pretty quickly. 3 is a fun surprise with its Amen break/dnb/jungle backbone, 5 does the album style quite nicely for once and is just a sweet mildly dissonant jazz fusion track, 6 is pretty much funk bass, 7 and 8 are quite nice but some of the mixing on 8 is a bit too annoying for a record from 98. It would have concluded the album very well however, but they still added 9. Eh, maybe I am excessively mad at this but it would not be the Maupin record I recommend. 3.2

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