And yes, we've got jazz legends working with hip-hop pioneers (Quincy Jones sharing studio space with Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee and Ice-T). Yes, we've got hip-hop tracks built from pieces of jazz classics (Nas dropping bars to the tune of "Blue Rondo a la Turk," for one). This playlist is a roundup of some of our favorite tracks that combine jazz with hip-hop.
Some of jazz's biggest names - from Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock, Branford Marsalis to Roy Hargrove - sought to build bridges between these two genres, and the process they started continues to this day with artists like Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire. It was not uncommon during this time to hear a rapper lay down a freestyle over Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night In Tunisia." (In this playlist, we hear just that from hip-hop duo Gang Starr, one of the pioneers of jazz-rap.)īut the exchange between jazz and hip-hop is hardly a one-way street. From the earliest days of hip-hop, during the late '70s and early '80s, DJs and producers would routinely crib samples from jazz, soul and funk albums to use as building blocks for their beats. "Hip-hop is like one of the children of jazz music," says rapper Nas, whose father, Olu Dara, was a cornetist who played with the likes of Henry Threadgill, Dr. Robert Glasper, Erykah Badu, Phonte, 9th Wonder Reachin’ (A New Refutation Of Time And Space) But we’ve also got rappers with flows and rhyme-schemes that call to mind the nature of jazz, and freestyle rappers who use improvisation in their verses the way an instrumentalist might take a solo over a jazz standard. And yes, we’ve got jazz legends working with hip-hop pioneers (Quincy Jones sharing studio space with Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee and Ice-T). Yes, we’ve got hip-hop tracks built from pieces of jazz classics (Nas dropping bars to the tune of “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” for one).
Some of jazz’s biggest names - from Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock, Branford Marsalis to Roy Hargrove - sought to build bridges between these two genres, and the process they started continues to this day with artists like Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire. It was not uncommon during this time to hear a rapper lay down a freestyle over Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night In Tunisia.” (In this playlist, we hear just that from hip-hop duo Gang Starr, one of the pioneers of jazz-rap.)īut the exchange between jazz and hip-hop is hardly a one-way street. From the earliest days of hip-hop, during the late ’70s and early ’80s, DJs and producers would routinely crib samples from jazz, soul and funk albums to use as building blocks for their beats. “Hip-hop is like one of the children of jazz music,” says rapper Nas, whose father, Olu Dara, was a cornetist who played with the likes of Henry Threadgill, Dr.
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