Jazz Articles about The Original Jambassadors

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The Jam: Setting Sons Deluxe Edition

by Doug Collette
January 23, 2016

The Jam's muscular musicianship is a direct reflection of titular leader Paul Weller's compositions for the trio, a symbiosis never more vivid than on the ambitious likes of Setting Sons. And this double-disc edition of the British band's fourth album reaffirms the blinding speed by which the trio progressed from being earnest young musicians paying tribute to an earlier time-the Mods of the Sixties by way of homage to the Who-to a mature ensemble whose studio work embroidered upon the ...