Ok listening to chamber music society again and here is my assessment:

I would call her music 'Jazz Slop'.

Basically lyrics just thrown in here and there. Lyrics (words) just thrown together.

Melody very sloppy. Almost she's making it up as she goes.

Poor arrangement of instruments. Violins will just come in out of nowhere.. do not fit the tracks.

Most importantly is the melody of the tracks. I listen to a lot of Jazz on the radio while cooking in the kitchen. I do believe that there are a lot of quality acts and great Jazz music.

Spalding is not one of them in my opinion. I think politics are more at the heart of her TV appearances and win last night because I simply cannot award merit to her album or any kind of achievement.

You leave her album feeling like you just walked down a cold, windy city clock in Chicago - you come out messy and uncomfortable. Not an enjoyable experience.

I highly suggest people download the album or go on Youtube and listen for themselves and see if it's quality music. She needs a lot of help with melody, songwriting and arrangement in my opinion of course.

EDIT - This leads back to my original question of wanting to find talent and work with artists. You can find talent that obviously have 'appeal' (as so many around the Internet love her without even listening to her album), but in reality her music isn't that good and she needs a lot of help with her songwriting and arrangement. I'm very confident the mainstream would not like her album. The question is how do you approach an artist offering to help improve them and nicely tell them that their stuff CURRENTLY isn't that good and they are not at their potential that they should be and you'd like to help?

Last edited by HypeTingSTudios; 02/14/11 06:23 PM.
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