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| Smooth Urban Jazz |
| Streetwize |
| első megjelenés éve: 2002 |
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| (2002)
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| 3.900 Ft
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| 1. | Rock the Boat
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| 2. | Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
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| 3. | It Wasn't Me
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| 4. | Shake It Fast
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| 5. | Differences
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| 6. | After Party
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| 7. | Brown Sugar
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| 8. | U Don't Have to Call
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| 9. | Always on Time
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Jazz
Charles Edward Smith - Vocals (Background)
James Waters, Jr. - Bass
Ken Navarro - Guitar
Kim Waters - Keyboards, Producer, Programming, Saxophone
Moe Daniels - Keyboards
Wayne Bruce - Guitar
* Anthony Barboza - Cover Photo
* Danny Weiss - Executive Producer
* Greg Grainger - Engineer
* Jack Hovey - Art Direction, Design
* Paul Wickliffe - Mixing
* Robert Vosgien - Mastering
The lines between urban pop music and hip-hopR&B-styled smooth jazz with cool background vocals become thinner over time, and Shanachie -- a label that keeps finding creative ways to create all-star concept projects using their roster -- has no problem finding the joys of the gray area here. While a little cheap on the tracking at nine cuts, this disc offers funky smooth jazz arrangements of urban chart-toppers by Aaliyah (the bouncy, hypnotic "Rock the Boat," featuring vocalist Maysa Leak), Jay-Z (a bluesy, moody reworking of "Izzo (Hova)," led by the gospel organ excitement of Moe Daniels), Usher ("U Don't Have to Call"), and others like Shaggy, Missy Elliot, and D'Angelo. Although Ken Navarro (whose balmy guitar smooths out "After Party") and Maysa are billed as featured artists, this is most often a showcase for the impressive soprano work of one of the label's most popular saxmen, Kim Waters. This will be an open door for smooth jazz fans to embrace some slick street sounds, and it should help Waters reach a larger audience, which he has long deserved.
---Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
Streetwize
Active Decade: '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Pop, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
A smooth jazz studio supergroup led by saxophonist Kim Waters, Streetwize feature a roster of urban jazz all-stars including singer Maysa Leak and guitarist Ken Navarro. The idea of collaboration is nothing new to jazz -- smooth or otherwise -- the twist here is that Streetwize perform current rap and R&B radio hits. Their first album, Streetwize: Smooth Urban Jazz, was released by Shanachie in 2002 and featured versions of Mystikal's "Shake It Fast," Aaliyah's "Rock the Boat," and D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar." A second album, Work It, appeared the next year with Kim Waters and company polishing the edges off tracks made popular by Missy Elliott, Erykah Badu, and Jennifer Lopez.
---Wade Kergan, All Music Guide |
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