Track Listing

1. All I Need - Joey DeFrancesco, Roy Hargrove
2. Hey Young World - Gerald Albright, Kevin Toney
3. Can I Get A... - Jeff Lorber, Dwight Sills
4. Doin' It - Audra Bryant, Dwight Sills
5. Bring the Pain - Hubert Laws, Kevin Toney
6. Rain - Oran "Juice" Jones, Ledisi
7. Ghetto Jam - Rick Braun, Dwight Sills
8. Get U Home - Gerald Albright
9. Back Seat - Jeff Lorber, Dwight Sills
10. Give It Up - Joey DeFrancesco, Scott Mayo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41762 in Music
• Released on: 2005-08-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Very Impressed
I had heard the Hey Young World song on a jazz station and absolutely loved it. I never imagined that the entire CD would be as good. I could listen to this CD over and over again. If you are in to hip hop, rap and all that, THIS IS NOT the CD for you. But if you like old school songs with a twist of jazz acoustics, you will love this. I recommend it to anyone, it just depends on your taste in music.

Definitely get this album!
If you grew up in the times of old school hip hop onward, you will recognize all the tracks on this album. The best cut by far is Slick Rick's "Hey Young World," but every song is good. I gave it four stars because while it's very good, it's not perfect.

I say not perfect because with all the big jazz names on the album(Roy Hargrove, Gerald Albright, Hubert Laws and Rick Braun to name a few), their appearances in the album alone sets the expectation bar pretty high. Although they all did a great job, it wasn't the absolute best work they could put, therefore it was perhaps two or three steps away from being perfect.

The horn arrangement on Jay-Z's "Can I Get A..." struggled to match the energy that the original track is known for. On Method Man's "Bring The Pain," I was looking forward hearing the original beat, but they changed it up some to the point where I couldn't audibly recognize it until the vocals came in. Also, since Rick Braun was on there it would have been good to have Kirk Whalum somewhere on the album too. But that's really the only major flaws I found in the album. "Hey Young World" was perfectly done, even had a go-go/reggae feel to it. "All I Need" was excellent, and they go WAAAAAAYYY back with Oran Juice Jones' "The Rain. It's a really good album. Not perfection, but definitely not a waste of money.

Def Jazz Is Good
This is a very nice cd with a good mixture of jazz fusion. Those who wrote bad reviews on this obviously are not musically inclined. Yes, I highly recommend this cd and asure you, you will not be disappointed. And no one had to pay me to recognize good music.