Hidden Beach Recordings Presents: Unwrapped, Vol. 3

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hidden Beach
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 827969095027
EAN: 0827969095027
ASIN: B00026WU1E

Release Date: 2004-07-13

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My Smooth Jazz/Jazz-Rap Wish

Tracks:

Check The Rhime/Unrap This - Hidden Beach: Unwrapped Vol. 3
In Da Club - Jeff Bradshaw
I Know What You Want - Lou Taylor
P.I.M.P. - Richard Turner
Tainted - Richard Turner
Lose Yourself - Karen Briggs
Tupac Tribute Medley: Keep Your Head Up/I Ain't Mad At Cha/How Do You Want It - Karen Briggs
Biggie Tribute Medley: Juicy/Big Poppa/Hypnotize - Andrew Gouche
Beautiful - Jeff Bradshaw
Doo Wop (That Thing) - Jeff Lorber
The Way You Move - Mike Phillips
Check The Rhime - Mike Phillips
Jam Master Jay Tribute Medley: Walk This Way/King Of Rock/Sucker M.C.'s - Andrew Gouche

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Customer Reviews:

not a good foundation for good(real) music........2005-10-15

it seems like this is the direction that r&b/ hiphop/rap is going now,what happened to the real bands that played real music such as the horn sections,guitar, precussions, drums and vocals that can really get out there. i guess i have matured and prefer mature music. after seeing kem in concert and purchasing his cd,it really makes cds like this sound like a bunch of untalented people behind a computer screen making beats because they cant play instruments and cant hit those difficult notes like the days of old. but... this is just my opinion of what music is today.

Good buy!.......2005-10-08

I bought both Hidden Beach vol.1 and 3. This one was good but not better than vol.1. It's still worth the money.

Worth every penny.......2005-06-02

I've been looking for an album like this series for a while. These albums have seemed bridged the gap between different cross sections of people. Between the ol' and new school hip hop junkies; pure and smooth jazz listeners; and even people who don't even listen to hip hip are loving this series. This music you can listen and dance to without offending your mama. Can't wait for Vol. 4!!!

Great Idea and for the Most Part, Worthy Projects.......2004-11-15

I just purchased Volumes I, II, & III of the Hidden Beach Unwrapped series and for the most part these are worth notable consideration.

The fusing of the three musical forms, rap, R&B, and jazz is a wonderful idea as one art form contributes greatly to the other; moreover, in most cases, the lines can indeed become blurred, especially if you have a quality artist to exemplify this.

When the collaborations work, you have an amazingly mature level of entertainment. The jazz improvisations coupled with stellar vocal performances and engaging rap lines serve to bridge generational gaps because the focal point here is simply the music. It is most refreshing to have included a solo violinist as an interpreter which makes one long for Noel Pointer who tried fairly successfully to incorporate the violin into jazz in the mid 70s. Since then, violinists seem to steer clear of jazz, R&B, and rap which is unfortunate.

However, when some of the arrangements do not work, (and some of them certainly do not!!) they fail colossally and the listener is left with the distinct impression that improvisation and creative energy was at an all time low. To be sure, the best volumes are I & III.

Standout cuts include:
Tainted (Vol 3)
The Tupac & Biggier Tributes (Vol 3
The Way You Move (Vol 3)
Music (Vol 2)
Still Not A Player (Vol 2)
Crush On You (Vol 1)
Loungin' - Who Do Ya Love? - (Vol 1)
The Light - (Vol 1)
One More Chance - (Vol 1)
So Fresh So Clean (Vol 1)
I Get Around (Vol 1)

I was also impressed with the roster of talent on the Hidden Beach label which includes none other than Jill Scott.

Again, this was an excellent idea and requires astute planning as well as judicious selections to consider for these arrangements. Not all songs lend themselves to this collaboration as some of the songs selected here prove. It also appears that after the first volume, it became more and more difficult to capture that same spontaneity of feel and cleverness of musical arrangements. It would be wonderful if other jazz artists could make similar collaborations and come up with a quality product. Hopefully, these recordings will be the impetus for more of this to follow.

OUTSTANDING.......2004-11-12

A sure fire way to listen to a lot of the new hip hop flava without the hard core lyrics. I hope they keep up with these projects

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Tongue Song ~ Strings

Takk... ~ Sigur Rós

The Life and Death of an American Fourtracker ~ John Vanderslice

Remote Control ~ The Tubes

Rebecca's Morning Voice ~ Violents

Glass Houses ~ Billy Joel

XL from Coast to Coast ~ Alien Crime Syndicate

Rockin' After Midnight ~ Various Artists

Definition ~ Mos Def , and Talib Kweli

Seed to Sun ~ Boom Bip