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Track Listing
1. Intro (Light It Up) / Jazzalude I / New Reality Style
2. Lifesaver - (featuring Baybe)
3. Living in This World - (featuring Sweet Sable/J. Rodriguez)
4. Looking Through Darkness - (featuring Mica Paris)
5. Skit A (Interview) / Watch What You Say - (featuring Chaka Khan/Wynton Marsalis)
6. Jazzalude II / Defining Purpose
7. For You - (featuring Me'Shell NdegeOcello/Kenny Garrett)
8. Insert A (Mental Relaxation) / Medicine - (featuring Shara Nelson/Jan Kincaid)
9. Lost Souls
10. Insert B (The Real Deal) / Nobody Knows
11. Jazzalude III / Hip Hop As A Way Of Life
12. Respect the Architect - (featuring Ramsey Lewis/Bahamadia/Brian Holt)
13. Feel the Music - (featuring Baybe/Paul Ferguson)
14. Young Ladies - (featuring Patra/Reuben Wilson/Big Shug/Kool Keith/Kenny Garrett)
15. Traveler, The - (featuring Donald Byrd)
16. Jazzalude IV / Maintaining Focus
17. Count Your Blessings - (featuring Bernard Purdie/Brian Holt)
18. Choice of Weapons - (featuring Dee C. Lee/Gus Da Vigilante/Courtney Pine)
19. Something in the Past - (featuring Freddie Hubbard)
20. Skit B (Alot On My Mind) / Revelation - (featuring Ronny Jordan/Bu)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Bahamadia, Baybe, Bernard Purdie, Big Shug, Branford Marsalis, Brian Holt, Bu, Chaka Khan, Courtney Pine, Dee C. Lee, Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, Gus Da Vigilante, J. Rodriguez, Jan Kincaid, Kenny Garrett, Kool Keith, Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Mica Paris, Patra, Paul Ferguson, Ramsey Lewis, Reuben Wilson, Ronny Jordan, Shara Nelson, Sweet Sable, Wynton Marsalis | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Guru, Baybe, True Master, Jason Kay, Dee C. Lee, Gus Da Vigilante, Lucien, Bu (vocals); Brian Holt (guitar, keyboards, bass); J. Rodriguez (flute, clarinet); Wallace Collins (digerido); Paul Ferguson (piano, keyboards); Jan Kincaid (piano); Dennis Mitchell (keyboards); Stuart Zender (bass); Bernard Purdie (drums); DJ Red Handed, Darren Galea, DJ Sean-Ski, D-Sire (scratches); Panchi Da Wild Commachi (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Kenny Garrett, Freddie Hubbard, Ini Kamoze, Ronny Jordan, Courtney Pine, Reuben Wilson, Jamiroquai, Sweet Sable, Kool Keith, The Solsonics, Donald Byrd, DJ Scratch.
Producers include: The Solsonics, Guru, Carlos Bess, Nikke Nicole, True Master.
Engineers include: Leo "Swift" Morris, Joe Quinde, Kieren Walsh.
Recorded at D&D Studios and Firehouse Studio, New York, New York.
Industry Reviews
3.5 Mics - Dope - ...JAZZMATAZZ II proves to be a refreshing work that sends good messages about family, life and the cultures of jazz and hip-hop...
The Source (09/01/1995)
...reeks of adulthood....instead of risking potshots from conservatives, Guru (in a bolder move) risks his rep with his hardcore fans. He flaunts King-isms to folks who pray to Malcolm....a comment on the way things are, but it is also a none-too-subtle request for a change of mind...
Vibe (09/01/1995)
7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - ...it flows organically....the tunes...juggle drama and beats with lightness and elan, balancing immediacy and indirection. They're hooky without being pop, jazzy without being abstract....the general level of creativity is staggering...
Spin (09/01/1995)
3.5 Stars - Good/Very Good - ...Guru is heads above other rappers integrating jazz into their music. Plus, his latest foray into jazz-rap territory continues to inform younger audiences about the old school...
Down Beat (11/01/1995)
8 (out of 10) - ...outstrips the first for confidence, funkiness and good vibes. He's really onto something here....So which is the side project, Gang Starr or Jazzmatazz? Who cares? Fact is, out of one team, we've got two great acts...
NME (07/22/1995)
...the purest collaboration in the history of the hip hop jazz movement....solid, steady soulkick and...profound poetic presence...reminds the listener to look the truth in the face and address it, conquer it, rap about it, and make sure to remember that Guru knew it first...
Jazziz (12/01/1995)
8 (out of 10) - ...outstrips the first for confidence, funkiness and good vibes. He's really onto something here....So which is the side project, Gang Starr or Jazzmatazz? Who cares? Fact is, out of one team, we've got two great acts...
NME (07/22/1995)
3.5 Stars - Good/Very Good - ...Guru is heads above other rappers integrating jazz into their music. Plus, his latest foray into jazz-rap territory continues to inform younger audiences about the old school...
Down Beat (11/01/1995)
7 - Flawed Yet Worthy - ...it flows organically....the tunes...juggle drama and beats with lightness and elan, balancing immediacy and indirection. They're hooky without being pop, jazzy without being abstract....the general level of creativity is staggering...
Spin (09/01/1995)
...reeks of adulthood....instead of risking potshots from conservatives, Guru (in a bolder move) risks his rep with his hardcore fans. He flaunts King-isms to folks who pray to Malcolm....a comment on the way things are, but it is also a none-too-subtle request for a change of mind...
Vibe (09/01/1995)
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