Madlib - High Jazz (RSD Essential 2022) - Volume 7

The seventh installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, a jazz album with his Yesterdays New Quintet called High Jazz. Madlib's been busy this year. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base or bases, as it were. Jazz is one such base. With High Jazz, Madlib begins anew offering familiar jazz sounds from a series of "new" groups from his ever-augmenting cosmos. Call it "Yesterdays Galaxy." 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.

Disc 1
1: Steppin' Into Tomorrow (Prelude) - Jackson Conti
2: Electronic Dimensions - Generation Match
3: Pretty Eyes - Jahari Massamba Unit
4: High Jazz - The Kenny Cook Octet
5: Medley: Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing (Live at Spear for Moondog) - Yesterdays New Quintet

Disc 2
1: Interlude - Madlib
2: Reality Or Dream (Feat. The Black Spirits) - The Big Black Foot Band
3: Drunk Again - Russell Jenkins Jazz Express
4: Funky Butt, Part 1 - Poyser, Riggins & Jackson
5: Wonderin'/Nightime - Jahari Massamba Unit
6: Space & Time - R.M.C.
7: Conquistador - Yesterdays New Quintet
8: Tarzan's Theme (Feat. The Black Spirits) - The Big Black Foot Band
9: Interlude - Madlib
10: Kimo - Joe McDuphrey Experience

Colour Family: Blue

Number of Discs: 2

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