The seventh Free Box Tape is a mix tape called "NY Jazz," with no additional labeling. The music fills one side of a 90-minute cassette tape; side B is blank.
Sixty-Four Words: This collection of tepid wine-bar numbers captures everything I didn’t like about jazz, back when I didn’t like jazz. This includes a fixation on unnecessarily complex chords, a “smooth” and improbably earnest phrasing of dumb lyrics, and singers performing instrumental solos vocally -- I don’t know the word for it, but I call it “pretending to be a saxophone.” I prefer the blank side.
Disposition: This is an addition to my worthless stock of blank tapes. This reminds me that, once upon a time, I offered to make everybody mix tapes. That project seems to have got away from me.
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