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Shades of Blue | 
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| Artist: Madlib
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 32782
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 36447
UPC: 724353644727
EAN: 0724353644727
ASIN: B00009OOI6
Release Date: June 24, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Introduction - Madlib, | | • | Slim's Return - Madlib, Higgins, Monk | | • | Distant Land - Madlib, Byrd, Donald | | • | Mystic Bounce - Madlib, Foster, Ronnie | | • | Stormy - Madlib, Cobb, James | | • | Blue Note Interlude - Madlib, | | • | Please Set Me at Ease - Madlib, Mizell, A. | | • | Funky Blue Note - Madlib, Jackson, Otis Jr. | | • | Alfred Lion Interlude - Madlib, | | • | Stepping into Tomorrow - Madlib, Mizell, Laurence | | • | Andrew Hill Break - Madlib, Hill, Andrew | | • | Montara - Madlib, Hutcherson, Bobby | | • | Song for My Father - Madlib, Silver, Horace | | • | Footprints - Madlib, Shorter, Wayne | | • | Peace/Dolphin Dance - Madlib, Silver, Horace |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The hip-hop producer extraordinaire tackles Blue Note's soul-jazz catalog on his latest project, given free reign to rummage around the fabled label's vaults. On one level, the project makes perfect sense given Madlib's Yesterday's New Quintet work--he clearly has an ear for the Blue Note jazz aesthetic. The remixes and reinventions here are mostly pleasant and even surprising at times--get down with "Mystic Bounce," a flip on Ronnie Foster's "Mystic Brew." Yet, some of these tracks seem a little too casual and undercooked, making Shades of Blue feel a bit too much like just another Madlib side project. In fact, Blue Note had already done a better job with this very same concept on their largely forgotten 1996 New Groove compilation, where artists such as Large Professor and the Roots took their stabs at the label's catalog. --Oliver Wang
Album Description
Shades of Blue opens with the declaration that "We are now having a little cooking session for Blue Note right here on the scene..." Madlib was afforded the opportunity to mine the crates of Blue Note. On Shades of Blue, Madlib delivers remixes and brand spanking new interpretations of Blue Note classics. Whether funking out Ronnie Foster's original "Mystic Brew" and transforming it into the "Mystic Bounce," or giving Wayne Shorter's "Footprints" a go with Yesterday's New Quintet, rest assured that Madlib's innovative sonic vocabulary will fill the ears. Other artists receiving a Madlib reimagination include Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson, Horace Silver, The Three Sounds and many more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Fantastic CD September 30, 2008
This is a great CD MADLIB definitely bridges the old with the new without taking anything from the classics. Definitely a great purchase.
 re-animated classics....... August 21, 2008
When the multi-ego'd, self proclaimed "Beat Konducta" Madlib is grantet access to the golden vaults @ Blue Note Records, the end result is sheer brilliance. Although each song is uniquely in variance to it's origin, Madlib some how holds congruent to the original pieces. Tracks like "Stormy" & "Montara" are funky and invigorating... A dusty show of retrospect, brought into the light of the twenty first century by the only one who obviously could do so.
Solid Grooves February 15, 2008
This isn't the first album to blend hip hop and jazz, and probably not the best album to do so, but it a very good album straight through. Madlib has a very distinct sound, and his touch on the old classics stay true to their oringal form while adding a little modern flair (or whatever you want to call it). The tracks weave together well. Definitely worth picking up.
At Madlib finest May 14, 2007
I don't know what to say but good and if love jazz with some hip hop you'll most definitely love this cd.
A madlib fan April 28, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
now i can't imagine why anyone would give this less then 4 stars, i gave it five. Now some people who badmouthed this album are obviously not madlib fans cause this album is incredible. Now if you want the origanal blue Note rocordings then go find them(untinted) but this is Madlib's interpratation and just like YNQ stevie album it's a dope hip hop recreation of classic tracks. hands down a must have for madlib fans
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