Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
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Artist: GuruEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-07-18
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Intro (Light It Up)/Jazzalude I/New Reality Style
- Lifesaver
- Living In This World
- Looking Through Darkness
- Skit A (Interview)/Watch What You Say
- Jazzalude II./Defining Purpose
- For You
- Insert A (Mental Relaxation)/Medicine
- Lost Souls
- Insert B (The Real Deal)/Nobody Knows
- Jazzalude III./Hip Hop As A Way Of Life
- Respect The Architect
- Feel The Music
- Young Ladies
- The Traveler
- Jazzalude IV./Maintaining Focus
- Count Your Blessings
- Choice Of Weapons
- Something In The Past
- Skit B (Alot On My Mind)/Revelation
Free Music Notes for Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality
Free Music Review: one of a kind
Hit: 5 Stars
Ive recently rediscovered the Jazzmatazz collection following the release of volume 4 and im am ejoying it more than ever. Guru really is one of a kind in continuing to make such a well working fusion of chilled jazz/hiphop.
Taking the various albums apart you can pick out the weaker tracks aswell as the weaker albums but its the overall Jazzmatazz package that is most impressive. The lyricism is spot on with Guru giving us rhymes far removed from many traditional themes found in some of the more popular forms of hiphop. The beats and vocals are spot on and make this album and whole series the most easy listening hiphop you will ever hear.
I really cant praise these albums enough, may Guru continue making music for a while yet.
Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality Poster
By the time Gang Starr's rapper Guru created the "experimental fusion of hip-hop and jazz" he called Jazzmatazz back in 1993, the idea of blending the two African-American styles had been fairly well explored. But as the first wholly self-conscious genremixing, Jazzmatazz Volume I was at least a decent novelty record. In the two Years that followed, however, jazz rap--from Digable Planets to Buckshot Lefonque to the Roots--grew into a dominant strain of alternative hip-hop.The good news is that 1995's Jazzmatazz II acknowledges the changing times. Guru ups the ante by collecting artists from R&B (Chaka Khan, Mica Paris) and reggae (Ini Kamoze, Patra) in addition to jazz (Ramsey Lewis, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard) and rap (Kool Keith, Big Shug). The concept broadens to bring together makers of all black music. At best, the songs reflect this more robust brew: "Watch What You Say," for instance, blends Khan's dynamic blue improvisational singing and Branford Marsalis's subdued saxophone phrases with Guru's rap and DJ Premier's unorthodox track of video game sound effects.
The bad news, though, is that Volume II fails in precisely the same places Volume I did. First, Guru still raps with fine tone but little gift for either rhythm or rhyme. In a monotone he self- righteously calls himself "The Lifesaver" but offers only vague solutions like "deal with reality and try to keep focus" to innercity turmoil. Second, except for Khan's vocals and perhaps Lewis' piano solo on "Respect the Architect," the style meshes never get a chance to rise out of the same tried hip-hop form. --Roni Sarig
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