Jazzmatazz Vol.3: Streetsoul - Guru

I personally believe that Guru's Jazzmatazz was the most slept on album of the year. Unlike a lot of other artist you can just let the CD play. You can put this in your car and not almost have an accident trying to skip through all of the songs you don't like. The first single that he did with Angie Stone was hot. It was right on time with a perfect video. Another duet that didn't get any radio play was a song called "She Gets Plenty" that Guru did with Ms. Erykah Badu. This song has a perfect blend of 2000 hip-hop groove and and 40's jazz funk. Ms. Badu sings so that her voice becomes one of the instruments and it makes a perfect blend ...  Read the complete review

An album which seems to have been ignored by the commerical masses in 2000 was this all-star album by Guru. The third in the groundbreaking Jazzmatazz series', the part-time GangStarr member has created on this album an impressive hiphop-jazz fusion, with his rapping intertwined with the vocal stylings of a number of considerably high-profile guests. One of these collaborators is none other than Craig David, whose haunting vocals on the track 'No More' is surely one of the album's highpoints, proving quite a sharp contrast to Guru's edgier-than-normal rapping and a track which deserves a single release. In keeping with most of ...  Read the complete review