2007-03-23
Charlie Parkeresque saxophone player, Soweto’s second album is part one of a two part concept release. The album is creative mesh of jazz and hip hop with story narratives over base lines and broken melodies at the end of most numbers. Tracks like Mission, Adrian’s Ballad, Marcus’s Crisis and A Friendly Game of Basketball hold the listener in a lull of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins style nostalgia. Opposing this are Hip Hop joints with beats lying somewhere in the vane of Aesop Rock such as Love Gamble, Ridez, So!, and Who Knows?. An interesting experiment and a tall order; a Jazz/Hip-Hop fusion concept album is a task I’m looking forward to Soweto completing this upcoming spring.MATT RAY
Lost in New York
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
PRESERVATION
DIANA KRALL
The Very Best of Diana Krall
HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN
Four Dead Batteries - Original Soundtrack
ALON NECHUSHTAN
Words Beyond
Matt Wilson’s Arts and Crafts
The Scenic Route
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