Jazzmatazz 1 (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & African

Jazzmatazz 1 (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & AfricanGuru's Jazzmatazz 1, originally released in 1993, is one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. Guru had a vision and brought together a diverse group of jazz cats both old and new school; Lonnie Liston Smith, Branford Marsalis, Ronny Jordan, Donald Byrd and Roy Ayers and vocalists like Carleen Anderson, N'Dea Davenport (Brand New Heavies) and French rapper MC Solaar have cooperated on this classic album.

Available again on double vinyl

The album features string

Minyo Crusaders rework historic Japanese folk songs (min'y‚âàç) with Latin

Keith Mansfield was perhaps KPM's most prolific artist from the mid 1960s right the way through the 1980s

Moshe drew from musicians within the Black Fire stable

The 40th anniversary reissue of Motörhead's seminal first album

brutal honesty of Black Sabbath's music

Art Farmer

Wakin On A Pretty Daze is a timeless record that would have sounded great 30 years ago

Yamaya joined Nobuo Hara's famous jazz big band Sharps & Flats as a baritone saxophone player and started composing

impressionistic pianist

Despite a poor initial reception the album is now considered one of Paul Simon's more important records