The Jelly Jam
Profit
Music Theories Recordings
2016
The Jelly Jam is a jam inspired prog super-side project featuring people like Dream Theater’s bassist John Myung, Winger/Dixie Dregs’ drummer Rod Morgenstein and King’s X Ty Tabor on guitars and vocals. They’ve started releasing albums back in the early 2000s, but their output has been infrequent with a second album coming out shortly after the debut and then taking off several years before following it up with a third one.
“Profit”, which obviously makes for a rather crude wordplay as it has a stricken out “prophet” next to it, is the forth effort by the trio and unlike other similar propositions, it seems to thrive from the time off. Suspenseful and managing to walk the thin line between not showing off but going for “song” structures, without completely losing a possibly jam like spontaneity, “Profit” is both fun and stimulating to listen to. It’s finely tuned irony and wit lyric wise, also is a big advantage, because it pollinates the easy to listen to tracks with some food for thought… it tries to figure out where the future of humanity is headed with regards to progress and human labor and how it will all evolve… some pretty heavy stuff indeed.
It might not entirely appeal to fans of say the debut, since it’s in another musical place altogether, but if you like the material that most of those musicians have worked on, you’ll probably dig it.
“Profit”, which obviously makes for a rather crude wordplay as it has a stricken out “prophet” next to it, is the forth effort by the trio and unlike other similar propositions, it seems to thrive from the time off. Suspenseful and managing to walk the thin line between not showing off but going for “song” structures, without completely losing a possibly jam like spontaneity, “Profit” is both fun and stimulating to listen to. It’s finely tuned irony and wit lyric wise, also is a big advantage, because it pollinates the easy to listen to tracks with some food for thought… it tries to figure out where the future of humanity is headed with regards to progress and human labor and how it will all evolve… some pretty heavy stuff indeed.
It might not entirely appeal to fans of say the debut, since it’s in another musical place altogether, but if you like the material that most of those musicians have worked on, you’ll probably dig it.