My second Mo'Jazz show for www.nessradio.com
Blue Break Beats, Vol. 1-4 contains Blue Note's four exceptional volumes of funky soul-jazz rarities and obscurities. Since its birth, jazz has influenced all forms of American popular music, right on up to the hip-hop scene that emerged in the late '70s. In the '40s, beboppers took the chord progressions of composers like George Gershwin and remade them into their own virtuosic masterpieces. Today, DJs and producers take the hippest bass-drum breaks, horn lines, and melodic snippets from the funkiest jazz cuts of the '60s and '70s to create new dance music. The Blue Note label has supplied the most durable grooves for hip-hop, and this four-album set shows why--presenting the original songs that provided the foundation to some well-known hits.
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