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Guru: Jazzmatazz

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Label: Chrysalis Records
Released: 1993
Time:
 44:17
Category: Jazz/Hip-Hop
Producer(s): Keith Elam
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.gurugangstarr.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1997
Price in €: 19,99



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[1] Introduction - 1:20
[2] Loungin' - 4:38
[3] When You're Near (Davenport, NDea) - 4:02
[4] Transit Ride - 3:58
[5] No Time to Play - 4:54
[6] Down the Backstreets - 4:47
[7] Respectful Dedications - :54
[8] Take a Look (At Yourself) - 3:59
[9] Trust Me (Davenport, NDea) - 4:27
[10] Slicker Than Most - 2:36
[11] Bien, le Mal - 3:21
[12] Sights in the City (Pine, Courtney) - 5:10

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Guru - Main Performer, Vocals
Roy Ayers - Vibraphone
Courtney Pine - Saxophone
Lonnie Liston Smith - Keyboards
Ronny Jordan - Guitar
MC Solaar - Vocals
Gary Barnacle - Vocals
Zachary Breaux - Vocals
Donald Byrd - Trumpet
N'Dea Davenport - Vocals
Carleen Guru Anderson - Vocals
Simon "The Funky Ginger" Law -
D.C. Lee - Vocals
Branford Marsalis - Saxophone

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Gang Starr's Guru has put together the best hip-hop/jazz outing issued yet, at least on these shores. Instead of merely wedding rap to recycled jazz samples, Guru and a cast of jazz, fusion, and R&B stars actually converge performance-wise, with the jazz musicians playing and the rappers and vocalists singing fresh material. The results are never less than enjoyable, and occasionally inspirational. Guru's deadpan rap style works, as do N'Dea Davenport's sultry vocals, and Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd, and Lonnie Liston Smith sound more convincing doing these songs than they have on any recent release of their own.

Ron Wynn, All-Music Guide
 

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