Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz (Yesterday's New Quintet)

Madlib | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 2010)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Madlib Medicine Show
• ASIN: B003OWVHV2
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,936 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Madlib follows Brain Wreck Show with 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. This year, he's already released two albums from "spin off bands" that he introduced on the 2007 Yesterdays New Quintet Yesterdays Universe album. And, 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. 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.

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Madlib's series of medicine show projects this past year are all worth it! This one in particular is a warm jazz project that spotlights by far some of the most talented musicians in the genre, and gives Madlib more props for doing what he does.