jazzmatazz

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl
• 25th anniversary edition
• Groundbreaking album combining hip-hop and jazz

Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, originally released in 1993, is one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. 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 (check out his solo on the track "No Time To Play"), Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers and vocalists like Carleen Anderson, N'Dea Davenport (of the Brand New Heavies) and French rapper MC Solaar have cooperated on this classic album.

Jazzmatazz proved to be a highly influential album and a huge commercial success.

Track Listing:

SIDE A

• INTRODUCTION
• LOUNGIN'
• WHEN YOU'RE NEAR
• TRANSIT RIDE
• NO TIME TO PLAY
• DOWN THE BACKSTREETS

SIDE B

• RESPECTFUL DEDICATIONS
• TAKE A LOOK (AT YOURSELF)
• TRUST ME
• SLICKER THAN MOST
• LE BIEN, LE MAL
• SIGHTS IN THE CITY