The Virtuous Optimist also known as Channtanza, along with Jazz's Forefathers, Jazz Liberatorz, and Saxophonist Nicholas Richard melodically tell a story about the evolution of Jass/Jazz and how it has shaped today’s music culture (i.e. Hip Hop). All my Hip Hop heads, you need this in your life, especially if you create music. You have to be knowledgeable and acknowledge your roots. The ones that came before us. Learn about it here.
This content is intergenerational. Your great great grandmother, grandmother, grandfathers, aunties, uncles, brothas, sistas, cousins, nieces, & nephews will ALL appreciate this episode.
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Tune Samples:
By Traditional - Shofars Call
Jazz Liberatorz – Clin D’oeil
Jazz Liberatorz – Ease My Mind (skit)
Jazz Liberatorz – When the Clock Ticks (skit)
Jazz Liberatorz – Genius At Work (skit)
Jazz Liberatorz – The Return (skit)
Jazz Liberatorz – Cool Down (skit)
Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong – It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)
Louis Armstrong – Go Down, Moses
Robert Johnson – Cross Road Blues
Let’s Go Get ‘Em – Bo Dillis, Monk Moudreaux & Rebirth Brass Band
Original Dixieland Jazz Band – Livery Stable Blues
Count Basie and His Orchestra – Swinging the Blues
Charlie Parker – Donna Lee
Charlie Parker – Just Friends
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take Five
Miles Davis Sextet – Walkin’
Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Cherokee
Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri – Los Bandidos
Hugh Masekela – Mas Que Nada
Santana – Black Magic Woman
Santana – Maria Maria
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Smile Jamaica
Gregory Isaacs – If I Don’t Have You
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – The Memory
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Searching
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter.. – Rey Clay
Freddie Hubbard – People Make the World Go Round
Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man
Brian Lenair – Eye of the Storm
The Crusaders – Lilies of the Nile
T.H.U.G. (The House of Urban Grooves) – Deringa
The RH Factor – Poetry (Rest In Heaven Roy Hargrove)
Abbey Lincoln – Ain’t Nobody’s Business
Billie Holiday – Ain’t Misbehavin’
Jazz Liberatorz – I Am Hip Hop
Kendrick Lamar – u
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