Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked

Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked

ASIN: B000ASATPS

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Impulsive! is a collection of reworked songs from the esteemed catalog of Impulse! Records. Mining a generation of experimental, visionary DJs/producers, Impulsive! re-imagines legendary jazz tracks from composers like Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef and more. The music of Impulse! was a crucial component to the development of jazz music in the '60s and '70s, allowing its artists a home to work out their most creative ideas, and that spirit continues today with Impulsive!.

Tracks:

A Helluva Town (Sa-Ra Go Remix) - George Russell
II B.S. (Rza's Mingus Bounce Mix) - Charles Mingus
El Toro (Mark De Clive-Lowe Remix) - Chico Hamilton
Mizrab (Prefuse 73 Remix) - Gabor Szabo
Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gerardo Frisina Remix) - Dizzy Gillespie
Spanish Rice (DJ Dolores Remix) - Clark Terry
Attica Blues (The Chief Xcel Remix) - Archie Shepp
Astral Traveling (Boozoo Bajou Remix) - Pharoah Sanders
Bamboo Flute Blues (Kid Koala Remix) - Yusef Lateef
Stolen Moments (Telefon Tel-Aviv Remix) - Oliver Nelson
At Night (A Poem Featuring Ravi Coltrane With Julie Patton) - John Coltrane

Album Description

Impulsive! is a collection of reworked songs from the esteemed catalog of Impulse! Records. Mining a generation of experimental, visionary DJs/producers, Impulsive! re-imagines legendary jazz tracks from composers like Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef and more. The music of Impulse! was a crucial component to the development of jazz music in the '60s and '70s, allowing its artists a home to work out their most creative ideas, and that spirit continues today with Impulsive!.

Customer Reviews:

Impulsive! Reworked Review.......2006-07-04

Some excellently remastered and remixed Jazz Tunes. Good for chilling on a summers day or for MP3 listening. Some tunes however are a little hazy and 'out there'. Definately worth a purchase if you are into something out of the mainstream!

Excellent.......2006-06-07

This album takes jazz standards and does a masterful job of remixing them in a contemporary style. If you are a fan of either jazz or electronica, you can't go wrong with this. Highly recommended.

Excellent and You Get Exactly What the Title of the CD Promises.......2006-02-02

This CD might disappoint those who have the Verve Unmixed series since those CD's are more pop/accessible and they make for a cool, hip party CD - old favorites that everyone already knows merely updated to the 21st century.

This is not really that kind of a party CD unless most of your parties are of the revolutionary kind :-)

These tracks are less pop/standard jazz that was already revolutionary and a bit belligerent in its day - though of course - cool and hip it its own right ... now updated to the 21st century with trip hop beats, they still stand the test of time. The tracks are all interesting, intriguing and still sound un-compromised and unbending to the whims of music fashion.

This CD is not for everyone but if you like your jazz with an unvarnished edge, and updated with splashes of trip hop and acid jazz - then you're in for a treat.

About the only disappointment is the low number of tracks.

Just plain fun. .......2006-01-04

Came across this disc tonight in a local record shop and popped it in my CD player. I actually took the long way home because I couldn't get enough of the first two tracks. Let's hope there are subsequent releases! Fans of Verve and Saint Germain (and I know many) will be pleased...

reworked but not revolutionary..........2005-11-20

oh boy, why do I keep buying these things. You'd think I would have learned my lesson after three volumes of Verve Remixed. But no, I keep thinking somehow there will be a great Jazz/Electronica remix album and that this might be it. With originals by Mingus, Gillespie, Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef, etc. how could anyone go wrong? Well unfortunately most of these tracks become the usual monotonous drum-machine driven loop tracks that outstay their welcome after a couple minutes. It's all certainly listenable Starbucks background music I guess... but all of the original tracks are so much more interesting, so why bother? (It's interesting that they sell the "Unmixed" collections for about $5.00 while these "Remixes" are $15+... hey if this gets people to check out the originals, that is a worthy result I guess.) The one rather nice thing is the string-y rework of Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments" -- but I'd still take the CLASSIC original tune any day. Am I just becoming an old crumudgeon or is this stuff just not very interesting? Heck, I liked the Motown: Remixed album for the most part... Reich: Remixed was great too (but GlassCuts: Philip Glass Remixed was terrible...) Maybe Jazz just isn't suited for this kind of thing after all? but the Photek sampling of Pharoah's "Astral Traveling" for the track "Rings Around Saturn" is way groovier (in a groovy robot way) than this attempt... hmmmm (Also... the Coltrane "poetry reading" at the end is a bit embarrasing.... I don't think John would have approved of this one... bad call, Ravi...)

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