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Jazz Sabbath: The 1968 Tapes

by Geno Thackara
The story continues: Jazz Sabbath's eponymous debut (Blacklake, 2020) introduced the premise of a progressive-minded late-'60s piano trio whose unreleased material was plagiarized and adapted in heavy blues style by those young upstarts Black Sabbath. The catalog got an even more fun horn-drenched expansion with 2022's Vol. 2 (Blacklake). The mysterious pianist Milton Keanes (da-dum) and friends commit to the mythology more than ever with The 1968 Tapes, complete with cover in classic Blue Note Records style and a mini-documentary ...
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by Geno Thackara
The story is almost worthy of the Onion: it turns out that Black Sabbath, the legendary outfit which practically invented heavy metal, was really a bunch of impostors who stole their early material. Iconic pieces such as Iron Man" really came from a brilliant forward-thinking jazz combo which disappeared in the late '60s before they could make their stamp on the world, and the first of their long-lost albums only surfaced with the release of Jazz Sabbath (Blacklake) in 2020. ...
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