Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show No. 7 - High Jazz - CD

Label: Madlib Invazion
Genre: Jazz
Format: CD

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.

Madlibs 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, hes 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 Daviss Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlibs 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? Madlibs Yesterdays-excursions are never easy to categorize and thats 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.

Tracklist
1. Steppin' Into Tomorrow (Prelude)
2. Electronic Dimensions
3. Pretty Eyes
4. High Jazz
5. Medley: Don't You Worry Bout A Thing (Live At Spear for Moondog)
6. Interlude
7. Reality or Dream
8. Drunk Again
9. Funky Butt, Part 1
10. Wonderin'/Nightime
11. Space & Time
12. Conquistador
13. Tarzan's Theme
14. Interlude
15. Kimo