In a past post I attributed my love of Jazz to my paternal Grandfather. He was a Jazz fan too. I recall every Sunday he’d have the radio tuned to a local Jazz station. He’s been gone for 25 years but he had one hell of an impact on my musical tastes.

So new  artists added to my library:

Pat Metheney

Dizzy Gillespie

Spyro Gyra

Bob James

another from Bob James – from which the below by Common uses.

Common

In addition to Common, the following sampled liberaly from the above.
2 Live Crew’s Megamixx II
2 Live Crew’s Who’s Fucking Who?
Alkaholiks’s Who Dem Niggas
Awesome II’s Ahooga
Beastie Boys’s Hold it Now, Hit It
Biz Markie’s Cool V’s Tribute to Scratching
Black Rock & Ron’s You Can’t Do Me None
Caron Wheeler’s Livin’ in the Light
Chemical Brothers’s Dig Your Own Hole
Dan the Automator’s Music to be Murdered By
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince’s Hip Hop Dancer’s Theme
Ed O.G.’s Feel Like a Nut
Eric B and Rakim’s Don’t Sweat the Technique
Eric B and Rakim’s Eric B Made My Day
Eric B and Rakim’s The Punisher
Ghostface Killah ft Method Man, Raekwon & Superb’s Flowers
Gina Thompson’s The Things That You Do
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s Freelance
Gravediggaz’s Pass the Shovel
Heavy D’s Nuttin’ But Love
Ice Cube’s I Wanna Kill Sam
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s Deathwish
Kwame’s Itz Oh Kay
Kwame’s Ownlee Eue
LL Cool J’s Rock the Bells
Mantronix’s Get Stupid
Mantronix’s King of the Beats
Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy
Miles Davis’s Work It
Missy Elliott’s Work It
Naughty by Nature’s Let the Ho’s Go
Nightmares on Wax’s Coming Down
Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s Lots of Lovin’
Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s The Sun Won’t Come Out
PM Dawn’s Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
Poison Clan’s Action
Prince Johnny C’s Comin’ to Get Ya
Public Enemy’s 1 Million Bottlebags
Run-DMC’s Peter Piper
Salt ‘N’ Pepa’s Expression
Slick Rick’s The Moment I Feared
Succuss N Effect’s Real Deal
Terminator X’s Ain’t Got Nuttin’
TKA’s Maria
UBC’s Harlem $2.50 Pyramid
World Class Wreckin’ Cru’s Cabbage Patch
X-Ecutioners’s Mad Flava

The latter by Bob James famous for the theme music for the TV series Taxi – the track is called Angela. I also got his Nautilus track too.

Spyro Gyra – is a jazz with a Caribbean and Brazilian beat. Very nice.

Dizzy Gillespie – Swing Low Sweet Cadillac is awesome.

Pat Metheney  of course I consider as  Jazz musician heavily influence by African music.

Common – I’ve got a few of his tracks. Not jazz per say, more hip hop but makes liberal sampling of Jazz music.