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Full disclosure: Jaron Lamar Davis is a personal friend of mine and frequent appearance here on the website; BUT that doesnโ€™t keep me from giving my fair reaction and opinion to his debut album. Now jazz has never really been my cup of tea despite hearing it from my popsโ€™ stereo for much of my life, but Iโ€™ve grown to appreciate itโ€™s subtleties more as Iโ€™ve matured. For being a debut album from a professional drummer what immediately jumped out at me was the actual lack of drumming. Well, not the lack of drumming but itโ€™s non-overpowering presence. At some points a trumpet is front and center, at other points itโ€™s a piano, and others the drums, and so on and so on. Itโ€™s all dictated by the nature of the song and general vibe heโ€™s trying to create instead of just giving us a collection of drumming exhibitions disguised as songs, and I appreciated this. But when the drumming does take center stage itโ€™s exceptional and in fact my favorite moment on the album is the song โ€œTalking Drumsโ€ where he goes in for 6 and a half minutes long. Itโ€™s the song that most hip-hop heads like myself will really gravitate towards. The rest of the album is smooth and crisp and left me with a much deeper appreciation for all the nuances of jazz as a genre and itโ€™s an album I find myself throwing on often to really unwind.

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โ€œWaiting in between the lines of you
Loving underneath the shade of blue
Like a kiss in the night
Like water from storms
I am waiting for our timeโ€

Have you heardย My Views Through the Lens of Music? Whatโ€™d you think about it? For a self-produced debut album how do you think Jaron Lamar Davis did? Let me know in the comments below and be sure to leave your own ratings and reactions to the album. And be sure to give it a listen if you havenโ€™t already.

Jaron Lamar Davis - My View Through the Lens of Music | Reactions
Jaron Lamar Davis โ€“ My View Through the Lens of Music Reaction
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Jaron Lamar Davis' debut album is smooth and crisp and left me with a much deeper appreciation for all the nuances of jazz as a genre and it's an album I find myself throwing on often to really unwind. The drumming doesn't always take center stage but when it does it's exceptional.
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