The best thing that could have happened to jazz and hip-hop was when they met in the early nineties (that’s why the cover evokes the great Blue Note). In 1993, Guru gathered his folks and invited the masters of American jazz to play live on his album. “Doin’ the tracks with the older guys was like a doin’ a track with my father: they accepted me and I accepted them.” And the first Jazzmatazz remains the best; the others weren’t as interesting.