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Album Review
Kendrick Lamar: good kid, m.A.A.d city
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar's hit album good kid, m.A.A.d city is subtitled a short film." Lamar's ambition mirrors that of saxophonist Bob Belden, who derided the narrow conceptual vision of too many musicians in a recent All About Jazz interview, saying: Modeling music along the lines of film narrative ... should be a logical evolution of the jazz composer mindset. Sadly, we happen to be in an era of ... music that does not tell a story other than that ...
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