Standout tracks include the two collaborations with Brand New Heavies singer N'dea Davenport. The Lonnie Liston Smith collaboration "Down the Backstreets" is a fine track, but the Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers partnerships sound busy and forced. Needless to say, this meets with mixed results throughout. On a few occasions, the instrumentalists provide the melodic hook of the song but, more often than not, they are relegated to noodling in the background while Guru raps. The way that the live playing is integrated on this album is different than the way it is done on, say, an Us3 record. The rapper's warm grooves and laid-back rhymes fit in perfectly with the instrumental tracks provided by a cadre of jazz musicians. One of the first hip-hop records to successfully integrate jazz, Jazzmatazz, Vol. Included in the list of best hip hop albums ever, by Hip Hop Golden Ageįeaturing the singles “Trust Me”, “No Time To Play”, “Loungin”, “Sights In The City” Ground-breaking hip hop and jazz album from the founding member of Gang Starr Jazzmatazz proved to be a highly influential album and a huge commercial success.ĭeluxe sleeve printed on heavy cardboard with linen laminate finish Guru had a vision and brought together a diverse group of jazz cats both old and new school Lonnie Liston Smith, Branford Marsalis, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers and vocalists like Carleen Anderson, N'Dea Davenport (Brand New Heavies) and French rapper MC Solaar have cooperated on this classic album. Guru's Jazzmatazz 1, originally released in 1993, is one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping.
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