Def Jazz Customer Review: its somthing to chill out to
good for the summer being in the sun and all that stuff
Customer Review: Definitely get this album!
If you grew up in the times of old school hip hop onward, you will recognize all the tracks on this album. The best cut by far is Slick Rick’s “Hey Young World,” but every song is good. I gave it four stars because while it’s very good, it’s not perfect.
I say not perfect because with all the big jazz names on the album(Roy Hargrove, Gerald Albright, Hubert Laws and Rick Braun to name a few), their appearances in the album alone sets the expectation bar pretty high. Although they all did a great job, it wasn’t the absolute best work they could put, therefore it was perhaps two or three steps away from being perfect.
The horn arrangement on Jay-Z’s “Can I Get A…” struggled to match the energy that the original track is known for. On Method Man’s “Bring The Pain,” I was looking forward hearing the original beat, but they changed it up some to the point where I couldn’t audibly recognize it until the vocals came in. Also, since Rick Braun was on there it would have been good to have Kirk Whalum somewhere on the album too. But that’s really the only major flaws I found in the album. “Hey Young World” was perfectly done, even had a go-go/reggae feel to it. “All I Need” was excellent, and they go WAAAAAAYYY back with Oran Juice Jones’ “The Rain. It’s a really good album. Not perfection, but definitely not a waste of money.
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