Queen
Jazz

Listening notes

Queen's Jazz, released in 1978 on EMI, carries catalog number 1C 064-61 820 and presents itself across two sides of vinyl spanning thirteen tracks. The record situates itself across the genres of arena rock, art rock, hard rock, and rock — a range that the tracklist itself seems to bear out in breadth if not in measurable detail.

Side A opens with Mustapha and moves through Fat Bottomed Girls, Jealousy, Bicycle Race, If You Can't Beat Them, and Let Me Entertain You. Side B carries the greater share of the album's weight numerically, accounting for seven tracks: Dead On Time, In Only Seven Days, Dreamers Ball, Fun It, Leaving Home Ain't Easy, Don't Stop Me Now, and the closing More Of That Jazz. The decision to sequence the closing track as a title callback is notable on its face, though what that choice reflects about the album's construction is left to the listener to determine.

What the tracklist does confirm is a record willing to move across tonal ground within a single side. The presence of titles such as Jealousy and Dreamers Ball alongside Bicycle Race and If You Can't Beat Them suggests an album that does not settle into a single register, even if track durations for this pressing are not documented here.

This particular pressing, issued under EMI with the catalog number 1C 064-61 820, represents one documented configuration of the album in vinyl format from its year of release. Collectors and researchers working with this specific release should verify all matrix, label, and pressing details against the physical object, as this draft reflects only the above confirmed data and makes no claims beyond it.