Style: Instrumental hip hop with jazz influences
Primary Emotions/Themes: Pour me your best glass of whisky barkeep, I want to listen to the band
Thoughts: I absolutely love jazzy hip hop. It's one of my favorite things in music. The combination of beats with the improvisation that comes with jazz is second to none. It makes me chill out and relax in ways that most genre's can't. Pure bliss.
B Dom's album Good Time puts me right in this mood. Every time this thing hits my turn table (which isn't nearly often enough), I pour myself a glass of Scotch and relax to the wonderful sounds coming out of my speakers. Pure bliss.
Something about this makes the world slow down. I'm back at the Martini Lounge that I used to frequent with my friends back in university and we are all sipping away at our drinks listening to a mix the DJ is putting on. Or we are listening to some small band that no one has heard of in the corner playing away as if their lives depended on it. Pure bliss.
Good Time replicates that. The smoke filled room, a trumpet soloing away over the backing instruments. It brings me back to a simpler time in my life. Things that I had forgotten about but I'm reminded of when the music hits the right notes. B Dom has managed to hit nearly every single one of them. It's pure bliss.
I'm starting to think I need to intentionally seek out more jazzy hip hop for my collection. I've only got a handful of albums, and I adore the hell out of all of them. Yeah, this needs to happen.
Written May 8th 2024
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