Label: Honey Pie Records (Italy)
Catalog: HONEY 060LP

A deep dive into the art of sampling old jazz records to produce up to date beats. Here you'll find all jazz originals which inspired and provided the basis for hip-hop classics of: KRS-One, Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Madlib, Wu-Tang Clan, Anderson .Paak, Action Bronson, Blu, and Mac Miller. An outstanding selection, ten tracks from the golden age of jazz including artists such as Donald Byrd, Clifford Brown, Ahmad Jamal, Miles Davis & Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa, Howard Roberts, Cal Tjader, Six Boys in Trouble, and Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. If you want to get to the jazz roots of rap music and hip-hop culture, this is the place to start.