2007-03-23
Charlie Parkeresque saxophone player, Soweto’s second album is part one of a two part concept release. The album is creative mesh of jazz and hip hop with story narratives over base lines and broken melodies at the end of most numbers. Tracks like Mission, Adrian’s Ballad, Marcus’s Crisis and A Friendly Game of Basketball hold the listener in a lull of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins style nostalgia. Opposing this are Hip Hop joints with beats lying somewhere in the vane of Aesop Rock such as Love Gamble, Ridez, So!, and Who Knows?. An interesting experiment and a tall order; a Jazz/Hip-Hop fusion concept album is a task I’m looking forward to Soweto completing this upcoming spring.DIGITAL PRIMITIVES
Hum, Crackle, and Pop
Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer
Music for Two
River Rogues Jazz Band
From Fats to Satch
BOBBY WATSON AND THE LIVE AND LEARN BAND
Fronm The Heart
Joris Teepe's Gronigan Art Ensemble
Jazz In Jazz Out
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Smooth Chill
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