Jazzmatazz: C/Muzak

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A few Guru C/D type threads etc, but the search found nothing devoted exclusively to this record.

I vote Muzak. Guru comes off like Easy Mo Bee did on Doo-Bop, admirably trying really hard but too reverential of OMG JAZZ for his own good. For the most part the playing is more noodly than inspired. Byrd & Ayers blow unobtrusively behind dude's boring rhymes, and "Down the Backstreets" sounds like it belongs on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

I assume yr referring to Volume 1 (there are 3 altogether)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

anyway I loved it at the time but its aged horribly and I don't own it anymore.

On the plus side it did turn me on to some great jazz dudes I previously was totally unaware of (Byrd and Lonnie Liston Smith in particular)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

righto xpost

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

vol 4 drops this year with common & raheem devaughn on the single

the third one is a classic neo-soul/jazz-rap record but yeah first 2 are boring - search that 'keep your worries' joint with angie stone

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

Search "Le Bien, Le Mal". That's the only track I can remember from the first one.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

The Doo-Bop comparison is most apt. Classics they're not, yet Muzak is too harsh. The first Jazzmatazz has a couple good moments; "Transit Ride" is one I liked, the one with "...watch the closing doors."

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

loved 'no time to play' and 'trust me' at the time.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think each volume has gotten better. The first one has aged like some of the weaker acid-jazz moments that remind me of the entire Instinct Records catalog.

― B.Graff (mr_graff), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

The Best Of Guru's Jazzmatazz
Tracklist
1. No Time To Play (w/ Ronnie Jordan & Dee C. Lee)
2. Trust Me (w/ N'Dea Davenport)
3. Slicker Than Most (w/ Gary Barnacle)
4. Down The Backstreets (w/ Lonnie Liston Smith)
5. Sights In The City (w/ Courtney Pine & Carleen Anderson)
6. Loungin' (w/ Donald Byrd)
7. Respect The Architect (w/ Ramsey Lewis & Bahamadia)
8. Watch What You Say (w/ Chaka Khan & Branford Marsalis)
9. Lost Souls (w/ Jamiroquai)
10. Choice Of Weapons (w/ Dee C. Lee, Gus Da Vigilante & Courtney Pine)
11. Looking Through Darkness (w/ Mica Paris)
12. Keep Your Worries (w/ Angie Stone)
13. Supa Love (w/ Kelis)
14. Lift Your Fist (w/ The Roots)
15. Plenty (w/ Erykah Badu)
16. Choices (w/ N'Dea Davenport & Bobbi Humphrey)
17. Loungin' (Jazz Not Jazz Mix)
18. Respect The Architect (Buckwild Remix w/ Ramsey Lewis & Bahamadia)

― and what, Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

12. Keep Your Worries (w/ Angie Stone)

^^^ classical material ^^^

― and what, Sunday, 9 March 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

it went from jazzy acidjazz rap to R&B rap and a bit of neo soul rap. good idea but everything it was meant to be was done better on one song - jazz thing.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 9 March 2008 19:39 (seventeen years ago)

Needs "Le Bien, Le Mal"

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 March 2008 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

that's a good song. haven't heard the first one in at least ten years.

― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

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