Well, I like the entire album from strst to finish, which ever version I'm listening to. Love Like Jazz is one of the highlights for me, it has some wonderful riffs and vocal melodies. I can understand why people might not like it though.

I do wish he'd pull out this track out in concerts a bit more. With P's fantastic guitar playing in the last few years, this is a fantastic song to jam to - the 2009 Montreux concerts are a great example.

Anyway, albums should have peaks an valleys, and I think this is the perfect rest before heavier songs like $ or Dreamer.

I like it. The only thing I'm not fond of on the single disc is 77 Beverly Park.

Really for me it's this kind of song that makes Prince a special musician, It smooth and breezy. I love it.

I love the arrangements in this song, but I could see how some could find it boring, as it is a very smooth monotonous song, but listening to it, there's a lot of sounds going on that appeal to me, especially the guitar work. Lf is a great album, I prefer this type of 'experimenting' to HNR.

bluegangsta said:

SanMartin said:

bluegangsta said:

Well, I like the entire album from strst to finish, which ever version I'm listening to. Love Like Jazz is one of the highlights for me, it has some wonderful riffs and vocal melodies. I can understand why people might not like it though.

I do wish he'd pull out this track out in concerts a bit more. With P's fantastic guitar playing in the last few years, this is a fantastic song to jam to - the 2009 Montreux concerts are a great example.

Anyway, albums should have peaks an valleys, and I think this is the perfect rest before heavier songs like $ or Dreamer.

I agree with you on the concert thing. In his performances Prince can transform even his worst songs into something great (I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I know I've seen videos in which he plays brilliant live versions of tracks that do very little for me on their original albums). In fact it's a shame he doesn't do it more often. Furthermore I don't dispute the importance of 'Love Like Jazz' in terms of the album's flow. It is good to have a rest there, and it's for that reason that I still struggle through it when I listen to 'Lotusflow3r'. I just wish he'd chosen a more interesting song to perform that role.

"I just wish he'd chosen a more interesting song.." That's just it. It is interesting. Just not interesting to you. Don't mistake your judgment for any universal truth.

tricky99 said:

I do not love the use of voice and the first half of the song. It is a song without surprise: jazz without jazz.

The 'Lotusflow3r' album is indeed one of his very best, and "Love Like Jazz" is an outstanding track, both in composition and execution.

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There is PLENTY of Jazz in this cut... listen to the vocal harmony he layed down when singing "Love Like Jazz"... that's on some Monk/Coltrane type of harmony.

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I'm baffled at how Prince fans don't like this song... It is very Princely, so to speak.

TheEnglishGent said:

I like it. The only thing I'm not fond of on the single disc is 77 Beverly Park.

Same here. 77 Beverly Park is pleasant enough, but that's the only song I'd swap out for something else. Perhaps "Elixer" should have gone on Lotusflower because it was too good for Bria's album. Plus, it doesn't have a true ballad.

Anyway, "Love Like Jazz" is great.

Absolutely LOVE it, with the exception of one short nasally weak vocal part that I HATE

Giovanni777 said:

Best version is Montreux 2009, which has lead fills and a brief solo on the red Strat that is so good Rhonda has to smile and P ends it with a "I nailed it" fist-pump.

As a guitar player (and so obviously a P fan) I can tell you the riff is mind-blowingly hard to play and was possibly the highlight of what was otherwise a showcase night for His guitar playing.

SanMartin said:

theartistirl said:

Great song

Stimpy said:

Best version is Montreux 2009, which has lead fills and a brief solo on the red Strat that is so good Rhonda has to smile and P ends it with a "I nailed it" fist-pump.

As a guitar player (and so obviously a P fan) I can tell you the riff is mind-blowingly hard to play and was possibly the highlight of what was otherwise a showcase night for His guitar playing.

I was there! Definitely top 3 highlight from the show! Silky smooth.