New Groove: Blue Note Remix Project [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000005H2H
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,940 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kofi - Donald Byrd

2. Hummin' - Cannonball Adderley

3. Living for the City - Noel Pointer

4. Listen Here - Gene Harris

5. Friends and Strangers - Ronnie Laws

6. Down Here on the Ground - Grant Green

7. Summer Song - Ronnie Foster

8. Move Your Hand [Live] - Lonnie Smith

9. The Sophisticated Hippie - Horace Silver

10. Montara - Bobby Hutcherson

11. Mixed Feelings [The New Groove] - Jacky Terrasson

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Da Bomb ... for all seasons ..., March 28, 2000

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G. Harrison Brooks "The last sane man..." (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Note Remix Project Vol 1 (Audio CD)

I first bought this CD in Montreal at their Jazz fest about three years ago. I was in a record store and they were playing the Cannonball Adderly track. I was hooked!

It's a fusion of hip/hop remixing of jazz classics. The result is jazz if you want it, uptempo house (REAL house)/acid jazz if you want it, or funk. I've played this on workout tapes, coolout music, or at parties. There is something for everyone, whether it is Diane Reeves' silky vocals on "Down On The Ground", or the pulsating "Sophistcated Hippie" which takes no prisoners, or "Listen Here".

In short, it is the BEST jazz/hip-hop fusion album I've ever heard.

My only gripe is - what is taking them so long to whip out Volume 2???

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hip-Hop's History Lesson on Jazz......(3.5 stars), April 5, 2002

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diro (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: New Groove: Blue Note Remix Project (Audio CD)

Hip Hop fans and Acid Jazz historians take note: The Blue Note Remix Project is a classic album released prior to the tidal wave of many 'Various Artist' acid jazz CDs and is definitely an album to be noted as an originator. The CD is based upon many famous jazz songs and has an impressive line up of album credits. The original jazz tracks were taken and then mixed and with samples added by hip-hop DJs, are transformed into good head-bobbing compiliation. Looking at the track listing any jazz fan will recognize the names as staples in the Jazz world. Special notation should be given to the smooth female vocals on "Kofi" [#1], the hip-hop treatment of the muted horn on "Listen Here" [#4], the paris-esque vibe of "Friends & Strangers" [#5], and the Ernest Ranglin-like slide-guitar-vibing and electronic organ keyboard on "Summer Song" [#7] which emits the best overall vibe of the entire album; no need for lyrics on this song...it's old school jazz-cool. "Move Your Hand" [#8] has Caribbean-rooted hip-hop lyrics while giving tribute to Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". "Montara" [#10]provides some sultry and soulful female vocals to go along jazztastic xylophone work; it almost makes you forget about the head-bobbing bass that persists in the track. This is not an album for dance-aholics. Rave kids need not apply either. Jazz hipsters and hip-hop old schoolers stand up and pay attention. This album draws clear lines as to where hip-hop and jazz have in common; where one takes from the other and where the other is partly-based on the composition and history of it's counterpart. Hip-hop fans who think the "bling bling" is where it's at should take a history lesson. Ready? Class is in session....

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS REAL ACID JAZZ, September 7, 2001

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gman (Glenn Dale, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Groove: Blue Note Remix Project (Audio CD)

This CD sets a standard for Acid Jazz Producers. It blends elements of hip/hop, rap and dance without destroying the original works. In fact I think they were able to enhance many of the tracks on this album thereby exposing a new generation of listners to the works of these great trend setting original artists. It really shows you that this "acid jazz" thing is really nothing new. It started long before many of the purchasers of this CD were born!