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Queen - Jazz 180g Half-Speed Remastered LP

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This record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering. This artisan process results in cuts that have a superior high-frequency response (treble) and very solid, stable stereo imaging. In short, a very high-quality master that helps to create a very high-quality record.

QUEEN - Jazz - 180gm Vinyl 2015 Remaster

Track Listing

A1: Mustapha
A2: Fat Bottomed Girls
A3: Jealousy
A4: Bicycle Race
A5: If You Can't Beat Them
A6: Let Me Entertain You

B1: Dead On Time
B2: In Only Seven Days
B3: Dreamer's Ball
B4: Fun It
B5: Leaving Home Ain't Easy
B6: Don't Stop Me Now
B7: More Of That Jazz

 

Half-Speed Mastered 180-Gram Heavyweight Black Vinyl - The original master tapes half-speed mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

Queen's seventh studio album was the first to be recorded outside of the UK. Sessions for Jazz began at Mountain Studios in Switzerland, in July 1978, and later moved to Super Bear studios in Nice, France, concluding in October. Producer Roy Thomas Baker had been absent on the previous two LPs, but for this project, the team was reunited - though it would prove to be the last Queen/Baker production. Geoff Workman and John Etchells were the engineers.

Once again the finished album was very different to anything before. The change of scenery in terms of recording studios gave rise to a fresh exuberant sounding album and once again a richly diverse range of songs - 13 no less! This period saw the emergence of several tracks that would go on to become not only significant international hits, but great favourites among the fans and staples of the Queen live show for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the 80s.

The unusual front/back cover concept was suggested by Roger, who had seen a similar design painted on the Berlin Wall some months earlier. The finished cover raised more than a few eyebrows at the time, as it was a significant departure from previous Queen albums and seemed to have little relevance to the album's title. The inside gatefold illustration was that of a wide-angle photograph of the band taken at the Montreux recording studios during the sessions by one of the band's roadies, while the inner sleeve photograph was instead taken at Super Bear studios in France by Chris Hopper.

Queen took the unusual step here in including a large poster inside the album – a now-infamous poster - featuring a bevy of beautiful naked girls (models recruited from various agencies) riding bicycles around Wimbledon Stadium in London in their very own 'bicycle race' with a difference! The event had been staged with the promotion of both the album and Bicycle Race / Fat Bottomed Girls single (released a month earlier) in mind. The poster, like the Bicycle Race video, would prove to be controversial in many territories around the world, leading to accusations of sexism and blatant exploitation.

“It brought us a lot of flak, but it’s a piece of fun. It was meant to be very complimentary, I mean, that’s the way I certainly felt about it.”
- Brian May on Fat Bottomed Girls

Although photographs from the unforgettable Wimbledon bike race featured in newspapers of the time, the poster was deemed too risqué for the American public and instead of making it part of the LP package, as it was everywhere else, Elektra Records avoided causing offence to retailers by instead including a coupon with which people could apply for their free poster. Further caution was necessary for the Bicycle Race / Fat Bottomed Girls single picture sleeves, not just in the U.S, but in all territories, with the offending girl racer suddenly sporting painted on pink underwear, even though she was cycling away from the camera. Elektra American even went a stage further by adding a bra, and thus inadvertently creating various rare picture sleeves for eager fans to track down – even all these years later!

As with previous albums, Jazz offered a varied mixture of song styles, reflecting a frenetic period in the band's song writing. Queen had returned to a 'back to basics' feel for the previous album, but for this, in new surroundings and with the assistance of Roy Thomas Baker, they experimented again and explored an even wider range of musical avenues, just as they had on the earliest albums.

Jazz was released in the UK on 10th November 1978 and four days later in America.

Singles from this album: Fat Bottomed Girls / Bicycle Race / Don’t Stop Me Now / Jealousy.


Album Credits

Bass – John Deacon
Design [Sleeve] – Cream
Engineer – Geoff Workman
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – John Etchells
Executive-Producer – Brian May, Roger Taylor
Guitar, Vocals – Brian May
Lacquer Cut By [Half-Speed Vinyl Mastering] – Miles Showell
Management – Jim Beach
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig
Percussion, Vocals – Roger Taylor
Photography By – Chris Hopper, David Finch, Peter Hince
Producer – Queen, Roy Thomas Baker
Sleeve [Concept] – Queen
Supervised By [Additional Audio Supervision], Bass Drum [Jealousy Bass Drum Reinstated By] – Joshua J Macrae
Supervised By [Audio] – Justin Shirley-Smith
Supervised By [Audio], Technician [Additional Audio Restoration] – Kris Fredriksson
Vocals, Piano – Freddie Mercury
Written-By, Arranged By, Performer – Queen

Release Information

Label: Virgin EMI Records – 00602547202741

Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Embossed Gatefold, Half Speed Mastered

Country: UK & Europe

Released: 2015

Genre: Rock

Style: Hard Rock, Arena Rock

More Information
Model Number Q90717
RRP 79.00
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