Sweet Mercy
Context
Opening track of Bending New Corners (Blue Note, 1999), album by Erik Truffaz's quartet recorded a year after The Dawn, with rapper Nya as a guest. Muted trumpet, Patrick Muller's Fender Rhodes, and Nya's voice blend in a vein close to emerging nu-jazz. The album earned a silver record in France; its American version, The Mask (2000), kept only the instrumental tracks.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, Dutch jazz.