Year : 2003
Label : Blue Note
Genre : Hip-Hop, Jazz
Style : Jazzy Hip-Hop, Downtempo
The Hip-Hop producer, multi-instrumentalist & DJ, Otis Jackson Jr., revisits for Blue Note records various of its Soul Jazz and Post-Bop recordings including Donald Byrd, Ronnie Foster, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Andrew Hill and Bobby Hutcherson. "Shades Of Blue" includes remixes and instrumentals performed with session musicians and special guests, rapper MED and jazz drummer Joe Chambers. Madlib performs also under various pseudonyms for each instruments than he uses, and fictional bands as Yesterdays New Quintet on "Footprints", Morgan Adams Quartet on "Stormy" & "Funky Blue Note" or Sound Direction on "Song For My Father". All cuts & beats by Madlib.
MUSICIANS : Madlib - drums, keyboards, vibraphone, bass, percussion, turntables - Jeff Jank - bass - Dan Ubick - guitar - James King - flute - Derek Holman - syntheziser, drums, percussion - Malcom Catto - percussion, drums - Joe Chambers & Lefty Houston - drums
