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Jazz Thing by Gang Starr (Record, 2020)

Rarewaves USA CA (56784)

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About this product

Product Identifiers

Record LabelMrbg, Mr Bongo

UPC7119691263670

eBay Product ID (ePID)16046038676

Product Key Features

FormatRecord

Release Year2020

GenreRap/Hip Hop

ArtistGang Starr

Record Size7"

Release TitleJazz Thing

Dimensions

Item Height0.14 in

Item Weight0.16 lb

Item Length7.25 in

Item Width7.24 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks2

Tracks1.1 Jazz Thing (Video Mix) 1.2 Jazz Thing (Movie Mix)

Number of Discs1

NotesWith the original UK 7" of this release now as rare as hen's teeth, and with the group having recently 'reformed' for one last album together, the Mr Bongo replica re-release of this 1990 masterpiece by Gang Starr couldn't be more timely. The now-legendary duo of DJ Premier and Guru dropped this at the height of hip-hop's sampling of jazz, which had led to a creative leap forward for the genre. Yet while others plundered in the dark, this instant classic wore it's influences on it's sleeve and paid verbal homage to the musicians they were sampling. The "melodious funk" of "Thelonious Monk" gets namechecked, while the track samples two of his records, including 1958's Bop gem 'Light Blue'.While both versions presented here have common elements, the 'Movie Mix' - so-named for the song's appearance on the soundtrack to Spike Lee's mythic jazz biopic 'Mo' Better Blues' - goes in a few different directions to the 'Video Mix'. Rather than just drop in an instrumental for the B-side, DJ Premier instead shows his versatility by switching up the base track (Kool & The Gang's 1971 'Dujii') and layering in other samples. In more ways than one, his virtuosity here echoes the improvisation of a jazz musician, akin to Denzel Washington's Bleak in the movie.Of course, he's not the only show in town. The late Guru's voice is as mellifluous as an instrument itself here, his potted history of the genre and the artists of jazz delivered with his own unmistakable cadence. Without this record, would he have gone on to make his 'Jazzmatazz' projects.