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A Hip-Hop Jazz Thing @50 - Part 2
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This week we take a look back at decades of cross pollination between jazz and hip-hop, with a focus on international projects and on collaborations between jazz and hip-hop artists. Our little contribution to the celebrations of half a century of hip-hop.Happy listening!
Playlist
- Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00
- Dream Warriors "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style" And Now the Legacy Begins (Island Records, 4th & Broadway) 0:16
- Host talks 4:04
- Us3 "Tukka Yoot's Riddim" Hand On the Torch (Blue Note) 5:53
- Host talks 11:30
- MeShell NdegeOcello "Step Into the Projects" Plantation Lullabies (Maverick) 13:19
- Buckshot Lefonque "Breakfast @ Denny's" Buckshot Lefonque (Columbia) 17:12
- Host talks 20:55
- Steve Williamson "Pffat Time" Journey to Truth (Verve) 23:53
- Queen Tipsy feat. Kenny Garrett a.k.A. Truth "Abstractionisms" Kamaal the Abstract (Jive) 29:41
- Madlib "Mystic Bounce" Blue Shades (Blue Note) 34:58
- Host talks 38:53
- Jon Hassell & Bluescreen "G Spot" Dressing for Pleasure (Warner) 41:34
- Russell Gunn "The Blackwidow Blues" Ethnomusicology Volume 1 (Atlantic) 46:38
- Courtney Pine "Modern Day Jazz" Underground (Antilles) 53:40
- Host talks 1:00:36
- Guru, MC Solaar "The Good, The Bad / Le bien, le mal" Jazzmatazz Volume 1 (Chrysalis) 1:02:12
- Daniele Sepe "Vite perdite" Vite perdite (Polo Sud) 1:05:32
- Thiefs feat. Mike Ladd "I Live in Fear" Graft [La Greffe] (Jazz&People) 1:12:34
- Host talks 1:17:39
- Jazz Liberatorz "Clin D'oeil" Clin d'oeil (Kif music) 1:19:30
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