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Combining heavy hip hop beats and throbbing basslines with jazz and soul samples, the music was good, but the vocals of tortured songstress Beth Gibbons were outstanding. ‘Glory Box’ is the shining example: a soul-searching love song delivered over a smoky backing track of jazz drums, ...
“Chief Rocka” was an immediate 90s hip hop hit thanks to the one-of-a-kind flow of Mr. Funkee and the interplay of his bandmates, DJ Lord Jazz and DoltAll. The song was produced and featured scratches by K-Def, with K-Def and Marley Marl mixing it. The line “I live for th...
Over 14K music fans have voted on the 115 Best Female Jazz Singers Of All Time. Current Top 3: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan
Badu answered by being all that and more. The jazz-inflected beat on “On & On” lopes along, peppered with sly, self-aware lyrics that are as humorous as they are timely. This track was the very first taste of what was to come from an artist who has smashed through every musical bo...
s ass-chasing tales. When Tela and producer-vocalist Jazze Pha sent “Sho Nuff” to 8Ball & MJG, the duo initially turned it down in favor of appearing on “Twisted,” another cut fromPiece of Mind.If they’d passed on it completely, they would’ve missed out on a song that ...
Over 1K music fans have voted on the 45 Best Jazz Rap Artists, Ranked. Current Top 3: A Tribe Called Quest, Q-Tip, De La Soul
In 1991, the Pumpkins were still on an independent label, but they worked with the fastidious approach of a blockbuster rock act, swinging into songs with gas-face guitar solos, undergirded by the jazz-prog drumming of Jimmy Chamberlin. Gish—named after silent film icon Lillian Gish—would ...
Melding pop, Jazz, electronic - Pet Sounds is a rare rock record that sounds like nothing before it and nothing has sounded the same since. Key track: God Only Knows Image Credit: Capitol Records 566 282 30. Clash: London Calling Year: 1979 From the anger seething from the iconic album...
•Wilco and Galactic Bring Smooth Intensity to Jazz Fest 93 Air, ‘Moon Safari’ Air's Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel were a couple of cerebral keyboard geeks from Versailles, France, where they obviously don't get out of the studio much. Their space-pop debut,Moon Safari, was a...