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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.

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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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