I don't hear anything on the Shadows album as being jazz. I hear a lot of cymbals on "Let It Ride" and horns on "Lesson in Love" but does that make it jazz? What IS jazz, exactly? Much of what I hear when I listen to jazz is the drummer playing the cymbals any old haphazard way and the bass player going up, then down, then up, etc. etc. while the beat accents the second note (the "swing") as opposed to rock music accenting the first or third of something in 4/4 time.
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