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<br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In some quarters, <i>Blackstar<\/i> has been characterized as a \u201cjazz\u201d album. That’s not accurate: though instrumentation closely associated with jazz (most notably saxophone) is employed throughout the album’s seven tracks, the uses to which those instruments are put are decidedly not jazz. Distorted electric guitar crops up fairly often as well \u2013 most prominently on the snaky closer, \u201cI Can’t Give Everything Away\u201d \u2013 but it’s not accurate to call <i>Blackstar<\/i> a rock album, either. Immersing themselves in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/02\/dvd-review-david-bowie-the-calm-before-the-storm-under-review-1969-1971\/\">David Bowie<\/a><\/strong>‘s 28<sup>th<\/sup> (and sadly, his last) album, longtime listeners may spot sonic similarities between it and his so-called Berlin trilogy (<i>Low<\/i>, <i>\u201cHeroes\u201d<\/i> and <i>Lodger<\/i>), as well as <i>Diamond Dogs<\/i> and <i>Scary Monsters<\/i>. <i>Blackstar<\/i> sounds and feels like the logical culmination and synthesis of most every style in which Bowie has ever traveled. And that’s saying something. <i>Blackstar<\/i> is a triumph, and a career highlight for the 69-year old musician. (Note: Bowie passed away within 48 hours of <em>Blackstar<\/em>‘s release.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some quarters, Blackstar has been characterized as a \u201cjazz\u201d album. That’s not accurate: though instrumentation closely associated with jazz (most notably saxophone) is employed throughout the album’s seven tracks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51],"tags":[633],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","tag-david-bowie","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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