” Retro Acid Jazz ’00. Imperial Lounge No.8 ”

01. Verano – Andy Caldwell
Om Lounge 6 (Om Records, 2002)
02. Jeff Bennett’s Lounge Experience – Dreams
Om Lounge 9 (Om Records, 2004)
03. Dizzy Gillespie – Matrix
Matrix (2002)
04. Ibrahim Electric – Absinthe
Absinthe (stunt, 2006)
05. Menahan Street Band – Birds
Make The Road By Walking (Daptone, 2008)
06. Cal Tjader – Cubano Chant
Freak Off: Latin Breakbeats, Basslines & Boogaloo (Harmless, 2001)
07. Five Fingers Of Funk – King of Style
About Time (Ho Made Media, 1998)
08. Emperors New Clothes – Unsettled Life
Ministry Of Sound. Acid Jazz Classics (Ministry of Sound Eu, 2004)
09. Menahan Street Band – The Traitor
Make The Road By Walking (Daptone, 2008)
10. Thunderball – Vai Vai
Scorpio Rising (Eighteenth Street, 2001)

note: This list is about one song: Dizzy Gillespie’s Matrix. Originally released in 1971 (The Real Thing) during his short lived sign up at Perception records. It’s after his hardbop phase and somewhere early in his afro-cuban sound, definitely before his status as statesman of art. The sound is perfect intersection of all modern derivatives of jazz, hip-hop, funk…and groove. Timeless lounge track. So, hope you enjoy this list, it’s in the mood of retro 90′s. A modern acid jazz album that would have been made had dizzy hang out and try to be mellow, with styles that Dizzie famously blend in his work but in muted electronic processed texture. San Francisco-Brooklyn Mod style.

see also: Dizzy Gillespie (wiki) , Imperial Lounge No.7
image: suttonhoo, [1, 2, 3, 4]