so... i have been listening to "busta rhymes - the ghetto", and when he starts saying "to my east-coast niggaz..." someone starts playing the saxophone. he is good (in my opinion :P ). i have done some research and found out that there is a music genre called jazz rap. i don't know if that guy was singing jazz rap, but if he was can u confirm pls, and tell me some artist who sing that kind of jazz. i would appreciate.

if i have made some mistakes i am sorry, i am a noob when it comes to jazz

Jazz rap? Think I have heard it somewhere before but never gave it a thought. At a lose too. Anybody wana help us?

I never heard of it, and frankly it kinda scares me...a lot!!

Getting scared by the name or what? well I din't start the topic. lol..

Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

I like this combination of things. Rap is a tool just like a guitar, drums, etc. . . When used as such it can add to the music a lot. I don't know a whole bunch of this stuff, but this is some of the best that I've come across. There are some tracks here and there like the first track off of Stanley Clarke's 1,2, To the Bass. It's the title track with Q-Tip.

well, I'll check it out. Still scares me though, I don't really like rap a lot

thx 4 the help mpittman

I've never heard of jazz rap either, although I'm not suprised. I mean, those two words are almost contradictory.

Herbie Hancock had a few rap/jazz fusion songs on his 'Dis is da drum' album, not to mention Us3's 'Hand to the Torch', but that's probably more hiphop/jazz than rap.

Mpittman is very right to suggest Guru Jazzmatazz 1 and 2, those are great collections for what you are looking for.

If you enjoy that then you could check out Guru's main thing which is Gangstarr, anything from the early 90s is good.

Digable Planets are a great example of jazz rap, their debut is the only album of theirs I have and it is called Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space). This is a very smooth album and one which I highly suggest.

A Tribe Called Quest is very similar to Digable Planets in some respects, but better lyrically. The Low End Theory is a typical starting place for them. I'd consider this to be the starting place for jazz rap in general.

The Roots and Common are some other, more recent, examples of what you are describing.

If you want more information and a list of more albums to check out then I would suggest http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...81&sql=77:2920

But check out Jazzmatazz, The Low End Theory, and Reachin'. I think you'll find what you are looking for.