Hip-hop's new jazz age: Chance the Rapper, Thundercat and the Internet - Tampabay.com
The legendary jazzman is one of many visionaries to whom West has compared himself over the years (Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Henry Ford, Walt Disney. the list goes on and on). The four-disc Davis at Newport culls 40 songs from two decades' worth of gigs at the Newport Jazz Festival, connecting the threads of his early swinging soul to the furious, cacophonous genius he embodied post- Bitches Brew. West is only a decade into his own solo career, but his path already looks awfully similar. That West considers Davis an influence is no surprise. like West, Davis cherished the idea of experimental expression. Post-Kanye, we're seeing that influence trickle to a new crop of rappers and producers whose music nods not only to Yeezus, but to genre-melding pioneers like Davis, Herbie Hancock and Gil Scott-Heron. The spectrum of sounds these young bloods produce owes as much to jazz, soul and funk as it does to beats and rhymes. We're living in a new hip-hop jazz age. In July, Bruner dropped The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam , a spacey, six-song solo EP that contains no rapping at all. Source: www.tampabay.com
