Dizzy Gillespie

The DJs are once again running the jazz asylum. Since tunes like Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" are already oft-sampled groove-fests, the knob-twiddlers here have completely re-imagined, rather than just remixed, the tracks. On the other hand, Jaffa wisely keeps Nina Simone's voice front and center on the great closer.

This second serving of remixes matching new beats to vintage classics and hidden
treasures from the Verve label's jazz vaults equals its playful predecessor, and displays lots
of genre-crossing craft. Remixers Dan the Automator, Gotan Project, Miguel Migs and other
knob-twiddling talent draw on the musicality of Willie Bobo and Ella Fitzgerald while
twisting their arrangements into new shapes. Appropriately, the late Nina Simon... More >