Loungin'

Guru feat. Donald Byrd · 1993

Context

Track from Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, the first solo album by rapper Guru (Gang Starr), subtitled "an experimental fusion of hip-hop and jazz." Trumpeter Donald Byrd plays trumpet and piano on it and co-produces the track, released as a single in 1993; the album pairs a live jazz group with hip-hop production.

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.

By the same artist

• Places and Spaces (1975)
• Black Byrd (1973)
• Cristo Redentor (1963)

Sources

• EN: Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1

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