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Originally Posted by The Great Owl
The interesting thing about Blackstar is that David Bowie worked with a new assortment of musicians. His previous album, The Next Day, was recorded with basically the same musicians who had worked with him during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Tony Visconti was still on board as a producer for Blackstar, but saxophonist Donny McCaslin and others are new to the fold.
From what I heard, I disagree with most of the official reviewers so far that Blackstar is a "jazz" album, though. There are some jazz elements, but there's a lot more to it than that. It's really a cool sound.
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I didn't know that, that's pretty interesting. I guess once in a while he feels the need to change things up a bit, he did the same for Let's Dance which obviously is the complete opposite of this album in that it was Bowie aiming for superstardom with a poppy, accessible album for the masses while Blackstar represents the side of him who doesn't care and mainly wants to experiment and make something different.
I agree, from what I've heard I wouldn't call it a jazz album either. Like you say though, there is some jazz influence in there which isn't necessarily a bad thing either, it's something new for him.