Madlib – Madlib Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz (CD) (2010) (FLAC + 320 kbps)

Madlib follows Brain Wreck Show with the seventh installment in his Madlib Medicine Show, a jazz album with his Yesterdays New Quintet called High Jazz. Madlib’s been busy this year. And while his recorded output always spans the gamut, he often returns to recurrent themes, spread across the genres that serve as home base or bases, as it were. Jazz is one such base. This year, he’s already released two albums from “spin off bands” that he introduced on the 2007 Yesterdays New Quintet Yesterdays Universe album. And, with High Jazz, Madlib begins anew offering familiar jazz sounds from a series of “new groups” from his ever-augmenting cosmos. Call it “Yesterdays Galaxy.” High Jazz, the name itself a tribute to the landmark jazz-fusion album released by Stanton Davis’s Ghetto Mysticism in 1976, shows a marked development in Madlib’s craft. Every element of jazz is there. Is that tune modal-funk? Was that song psych-fusion? Was that a bossa-tinged run or another kind of latin-affair? Where did that sitar come from? Madlib’s Yesterdays-excursions are never easy to categorize and that’s the point while experiencing chops like these, the desire to rigidly define takes a back seat to aural pleasure.

Tracklist:

01. The Jackson Conti Band – Steppin Into Tomorrow (Prelude)
02. Generation Match – Electronic Dimensions
03. Jahari Massamba Unit – Pretty Eyes
04. The Kenny Cook Octet – High Jazz
05. Yesterday’s New Quintet – Medley: Don’t You Worry Bout A Thing (Live At Spear for the Moondog)
06. Madlib – Interlude
07. The Big Black Foot Band – Reality or Dream (feat. The Black Spirits)
08. Russell Jenkins Jazz Express – Drunk Again
09. Poyser, Riggins & Jackson – Funky Butt, Part 1
10. Jahari Massamba Unit – Wonderin’/Nightime
11. R.M.C. – Space & Time
12. Yesterday’s New Quintet – Conquistador
13. The Big Black Foot Band – Tarzan’s Theme (feat. The Black Spirits)
14. Madlib – Interlude
15. Joe McDuphrey Experience – Kimo

Download:

FLAC – Wayshare

320 kbps – Wayshare