Jazz Thing
Context
This Gang Starr track appears on the soundtrack of the film Mo' Better Blues (1990); it is the album's only single, released in August 1990 with a video. It brings the rap of Guru and DJ Premier closer to jazz, with saxophonist Branford Marsalis as co-producer. The album ranked 63rd on the Billboard 200.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz. Among the origins and influences of Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Dutch jazz.