High Jazz (2xLP)

Madlib Medicine Show #7: High Jazz 

High Jazz, the name itself a tribute to the landmark jazz-fusion album released by Stanton Davis’s Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlib’s craft. Every element of jazz is there. Is that tune modal-funk? Was that song psych-fusion? Was that a bossa-tinged run or another kind of latin-affair? Where did that sitar come from? Madlib’s Yesterdays-excursions are never easy to categorize and that’s the point – while experiencing chops like these, the desire to rigidly define takes a back seat to aural pleasure. The Madlib Medicine Show series is a combination of Madlib's new hip-hop productions, remixes, beat tapes, and jazz, as well as mixtapes of funk, soul, Brazilian, psych, jazz and other undefined forms of music from the Beat Konducta's 4-ton* stack of vinyl. *4-tons of vinyl, this is true. It’s all in his studio.

Tracklist:

A1 Jackson Conti– Steppin' Into Tomorrow (Prelude)
A2 Generation Match– Electronic Dimensions
A3 Jahari Massamba Unit– Pretty Eyes
A4 The Kenny Cook Octet– High Jazz
B1 Yesterdays New Quintet– Medley: Don't You Worry Bout A Thing ( Live At Spear For Moondog)
C1 Madlib– Interlude
C2 The Big Black Foot Band– Reality Or Dream
C3 Russell Jenkins Jazz Express– Drunk Again
C4 Poyser, Riggins & Jackson– Funky Butt, Part 1
C5 Jahari Massamba Unit– Wonderin'/Nightime
D1 R.M.C.– Space & Time
D2 Yesterdays New Quintet– Conquistador
D3 The Big Black Foot Band– Tarzan's Theme
D4 Madlib– Interlude
D5 Joe McDuphrey Experience– Kimo