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Track Listings
| 1. Slim's Return |
| 2. Distant Land (Hip Hop Drum Mix) |
| 3. Mystic Bounce |
| 4. Stormy |
| 5. Blue Note Interlude |
| 6. Please Set Me At Ease |
| 7. Funky Blue Note |
| 8. Alfred Lion Interlude |
| 9. Stepping Into Tomorrow (Madlib Remix) (2003 Digital Remaster) |
| 10. Andrew Hill Break (Madlib Remix) |
| 11. Montara (Madlib Remix) (2003 Digital Remaster) |
| 12. Song For My Father |
| 13. Footprints |
| 14. Peace/Dolphin Dance |
| 15. Outro |
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There are many other bland remix strolls through not just the Blue Note but also Verve back catalogues. If you want to enjoy jazz, but can't find it in your soul to do so (or need a tepid House beat accompaniment so that it doesn't seem too "different" from modern music), you can turn to those. If you think jazz is an antique collectable produced only prior to 1970 and reproduced imperfectly since, well... guess you can always dust off a few cherished records from your mausoleum.
Madlib is a much finer exponent of the spirits of jazz than most modern jazzists, and this album is a further testament to that fact. Those who like should also check his remix of Bobbi Humphrey's 'Young Warrior' on the Blue Note Revisited album - possibly better than anything on 'Shades of Blue'.
But it's all relative, and Madlib is a true modern genius. Whether he's hip-hoppin', be-boppin' or just straight doin' his do.
This album actually set me off on certain artists I hadn't listened to before. Bobby Hutcherson and Horace Silver, in particular. And it gots to be good news that young heads can expand their jazz vocabulary beyond 'Kind of Blue', knowing how much it informs the hip-hop and soul that gets us going.
1. Madlib is a renowned Hip hop producer.
2. Blue Note is a fantastic label for jazz.
3. The album was produced by Eli and Peanut Butter Wolf.
With these sort of credentials it is hardly surprising that a fantastic album has been produced. It combines some wonderful jazz (I don't pretend to be knowledgeable at all, though I have a few Miles Davis and Coltrane Albums, so I have dipped my toe in the water) with a hip hop flavour, which generally means a bit of lyrics in the background, with the melody of the song remaining intact. The beats are chilled, with some cool bass guitar, double bass, piano and trumpet playing around with the music in a way that only jazz musicians can.
I like albums which I see as progression for music in general, and this is definitely one of them, as is Bobbito Earthtones which I would also advise. This sort of music just gives you a good feeling, firstly because you found it but also because of the tempo of the music itself - just makes you wanna smirk and get down in a modern day James Brown stylee. That's right!
He picked out some tracks from the Blue Note back catalogue that I was never too fond of e.g. Hancock's 'Dolphin Dance' and 'Stormy' by Reuben Wilson, and made them into compositions that came alive. Personal highlights for me have to be 'Distant Land', 'Mystic Bounce', and in particular the brilliantly relaxed 'Montara', the re-worked Bobby Hutcherson track originally off his '75 album of the same name.
I think that people who label this album as poor should realise that not only are the production, remixing and choice of original compositions all excellent, but that Madlib is expandng his creative boundaries and making jazz and soul gradually more accessible by introducing them, albeit in a remixed hiphop format, to a different audience.
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