How Jazz and Hip Hop Harmonize: J Dilla, Herbie Hancock, and Nas
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Hip hop’s foundation and evolution owe itself to jazz. And it’s reciprocal. Jazz has borrowed from all facets of hip hop culture and musical contributions, showing that one of the country’s oldest genres is still young at heart. Together Linda Diaz and LA Buckner work together to break down how these two genres cross-pollinate.
LA Buckner talks to Karriem Riggins about the J Dilla formula. Linda Diaz interviews Lakecia Benjamin about the ways hip hop has influenced her as a jazz saxophonist. Make sure to stay for the end to see their original jazz and hip-hop inspired track.
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00:00 - Intro
00:44 - Pop Quiz
02:04 - Jazz, Scatting, and Lyrical Wordplay
05:20 - Jazz Influence in Rap Styles
06:14 - Improvisation
06:50 - Sampling
11:19 - Hip-hop's Influence on Jazz
12:50 - J Dilla's Influence
17:06 - Jazz and Hip-Hop Today
19:00 - The Original Track
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#SoundFieldPBS #Rewire #PBSDigitalStudios ahmad jamal chris dave neo soul hip hop jazz kendrick lamar bob james robert glasper ahmad jamal pete rock freestyle fellowship influence nujabes herbie hancock
It's been awhile since we posted an original track on our soundcloud but you can listen and download it here: soundcloud.com/soundfieldpbs/boom-bop. Make sure to subscribe on UA-cam and thumbs up and hit that bell and all that other good stuff though. Thanks for the love as always!
That track is smoother than butter, really well done.
:) jazz is artistically poetic
Can I rap to what you produced at the end? That was 🔥🔥🔥 ... let me know if a collab is possible?
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"And honestly we could devote a whole episode to jazz samples in rap"
PLEASE DO
I second this
i third this
Yes Please
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I fifth this
Whoever edits these deserves a pat on the back 🤝
Danielle Riseley does all of the animations! Make her famous :) instagram.com/lee.elle.eel/
And a raise!
One mounth without bandstand are like 31 days without bandstand
The only thing that stuck out to me was that it showed a picture of a cello instead of an upright bass. Other than that it's impeccable
But why did it stop there? Lolol
*mentions J Dilla halfway through the video*
me: *waits for them to mention my homie Nujabes*
video: 18:42
me: :')
RIP Nujabes!
TIL it’s pronounced “Nooja-bess”. Always thought it was “New-jah-bays”
@@mienaikoe Linda's the one that taught me how to pronounce it
@@mienaikoe i thought it was noo-ha-bays like Spanish or something lol.
@@mienaikoe for so many years I've been pronouncing it "new-jabs" lol
As an older hip-hop head, I can say this mini doc really captures the topic, the only criticism I have is that they forgot about GURU and his Jazzmatazz series of music compilations.
Glad we got your respectt Craig. There was a lot that just couldn't make the cut. 20 minutes is our longest episode yet and we still didn't have time for everything.
I wish I could give you 2 thumbs up 👍 I’m going to find my cd right now.
@@jayephbee Loungin with Donald Byrd 😍, losts souls with Jay Kay ❤️, Medecine with Ini Kamoze 😍 haha. These albums had so many good collabs, especially the first two
My first thoughts exactly!!!! Vol 1 dropped in 1993... smh
I can't see how they forgot about guru's jasmatazz album
Most underrated channel on UA-cam?
that's actually true
@@SoundFieldPBS for real tho
Real
So true
@@m.c.ravioli1521 def is
Madlib! He is this fusion personified.
for real..the yesterdays new quintet project is proof that Otis is from another planet...
Otis Jackson Trio, Sound Directions.... all Madlib.
I was thinking the same thing
Yeah, Yesterday's New Quintet opens many doors & windows.
He even released an album on the legendary jazz label Blue Notes records
Rakim also got his flow from imitating jazz rhythms and even played saxophone and was a John Coltrane fan.
I was thinking the same thing
Coltrane is the goat
Yes, I thought the same and even considered it a huge omission.
fantastic way of kicking off black history month... two genres intrinsically linked to black culture, history and experience. big thumbs up sound field!
Next up is country music and how black culture influenced it
@@keraatkins7833 LOVE!!!
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@@SoundFieldPBS i am ALL ears!
They love the music but not the people who made it
I have a degree in music where I took classes specifically on the histories of Hip-Hop and Jazz, and I still learned new information from this video. Thanks for spreading the knowledge!
Of course you learned more. School would never, or could never teach you much of the history of the people and their art. Hip hop and Jazz is the music of African people. African art has never been made to dissect and analyze, but rather to be felt and to inspire the people on a spiritual level.
I feel like every time I dive back into a musical genre, even one I've been knowledgeable about, I always find something new. This video introduced me to a couple artists I didn't know due to samples used, and a couple newer artists. Music is an endless flood, and I love it.
“So did you get them all right?”
Me:😔
“If not, that’s fine. You’re going to learn more now.”
Me:😃
But damn y'all really just overlooked Guru's Jazzmatazz series?! He literally made albums with Jazz legends!
Vol 1 dropped in 1993, definitely important to the topic, miss opportunity.
RIP Guru
Exactly, All the jazzmatazz stuff or the us3 Hand on the Torch Album or something like erykah badu, d‘angelo or Even a Few Parts of mac miller
Good seeing Digable Planets getting some love. They're often forgotten and criminally underrated!
True
Fax
RIP NUJABES... You were my high school life
Actually kinda crazy that all this info is free. Thank you guys!
wait til you find out about wikipedia.
J Dilla is genuinely my biggest inspiration. Hands down the best producer in hip hop; he'd make some of his most beautiful and famous beats in less than an hour. Track 35 and Weedem I believe was made in less than an hour and those alone burn buildings. RIP Jay Dee forever
"You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop
I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles"
Ahh...yeah!
"You could find Dilla listening to Abstract
My pops used to say it reminded him of Jazz Cats
See he told me that this game go in cycles"
Could anybody translate for the underinitiated?
@@morgengabe1 it’s the opening from excursions by a tribe called quest on their record the low end theory
....way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael.....
That "Get dis money" sample just feels perfect every time I hear it. Immediately fixes my attitude
one of the best ever uses of sample
always scary when videos like this come out during my just intense binge of j dilla, his influence, and the love of jazz
we were watching you!
I wasn't expecting to see the Tiny Desk Winner in here. That's dope.
But yea, Jazz is hip again. With artist like Robert Glasper, everyone on Brainfeeder, DOMi & JD Beck, as well as Adam Neely's videos bringing jazz back into the forefront, is a net good for the culture.
Linda Diaz joined the team back in August and then immediately won the Tiny Desk Contest. That was a wild time! Go follow her she's on the come up instagram.com/lindadiazmusic
Jazz was always hip ... but I get what you’re saying
@@milesfarnan9049 It did smell funny for a while though.
Don't forget about Terrace Martin🎷🎵🎼🎧
@@unclebaobabmusic No you just weren't listening
The concept of sing/speaking over beats also came from toasting reggae + dancehall music on sound systems in Jamaica in the 60’s/70’s. RIP U-Roy
@Aluthando Bottoman
"If you did your research. you'd know that.."
Oh dear did I make a mistake? Please forgive me for not being the all knowing music historian of all time! Musical influences come from many places. Ego only comes from one.
Peace.
@Aluthando Bottoman Exactly. No need for the condescending tone.
I want to point people to Sama’an Ashrawi’s video of Thundercat talking about how he and Flying Lotus got to introduce Herbie Hancock to J Dilla’s flip of “Come Running To Me” on “Get Dis Money”. It’s a great anecdote.
ahmad jamal is a beast his music appears in so many hiphop songs . his music is timeless
Ahmad Jamal is GOATed for sure!!
Dey don't kno
I am VERY confused by how The Roots didn't get mentioned in this ENTIRE analysis of the co-mingling and co-inspiration of these two genres. They're a hip-hop group with live JAZZ musicians. How did they not get shown appreciation?
I'm also confused that the intimacy of hip-hop and jazz that was demonstrated throughout the ERA of neo-soul and conscious hip-hop of the late 90s-early 00s did not get recognition here.
Yeah man. Things fell apart due to them not mentioning The Roots.
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STONKS!
@@SoundFieldPBS what about house music/electronic music? How did it come through?
I would have loved to hear Nina Simone mentioned in this conversation. She contributed so much vocally and instrumentally to Hip Hop.
What a host he is, the knoledge, the swag, and obviuosly the voice
As if you didn't already know that Black is Beauty!!!
Ive been listening to Dilla for more than 20 years, I never thought I would become a bigger fan. The man's legacy is a treasure
I'm so glad people out there remember the Freestyle Fellowship
Inner city griots changed my life
y'all fr namedropped all my favorite artists around that 18:30 mark.
Same. All of those are my soundtrack to my workday. Listening to Kamasi while on a train between cities... makes me feel things. BBNG if I need hype. Louis Cole if I _really_ need to get hyped. Moonchild and Nubya Garcia for the chillout.
You can basically trace a line in any direction from that core intersection of jazz and hiphop and you'll find all my favourite artists. There's a connection, be it one or two degrees of separation, to everything I like.
RIP DOUBLE K... he and THES ONE deserves they own 20min video
It’s nice seeing a video essay about black music hosted by black artists, great video yall! 🤟🏼🤟🏼
So glad you mentioned Digable Planets! As a jazz fan, Blowout Comb was the album that really introduced me to hip hop, and it remains one of my favorite albums
I'd love to see an episode about sampling
What would the ideal sampling episode be like?
@@SoundFieldPBS it's a good question. I'm lost.
@@SoundFieldPBS I would suggest talking about how it went from the turntables with breakbeats to layering loops from various sources and making them work together to make a song all the way to producers using chopping techniques (sometimes as a work around sample clearance issues) to rearrange a sample into something totally different from the source.
Include things like how the sampling laws forced creative methods (as the aforementioned chopping) as well as those who had sampled prior to it becoming a staple of hip hop.
@@apexone5502 and dont forget jungle!
My UA-cam algorithm is truly the one. This video has been flashing at me for two/three days, not disappointed at all. Thank you.
Glad I found this video by YT accident. Best 20 minutes today.
18:34 I really missed Alfa Mist there (I know it's impossible to mention everyone, I just love his music)
One person you barely mentioned you really should do an interview with and that's Terrace Martin. Terrace has both feet firmly planted in Jazz and Hiphop world as a multi instrumentalist and producer. At 17 Terrace was already on Snoop's band touring all over being mentored by Snoop. Most recent Terrace is touring with Herbie Hancock's band. Listened to interview with Terrace he was saying big difference with HipHop and Jazz is the Jazz tradition is players mentoring young players. But in HipHop world everyone acts what they do is secret with a few exceptions. Terrace said he was lucky that Snoop mentored him and really taught him the music and the business. Terrace would be a great interview.
You're right! I thought by doing our longest video yet we'd be able to get to more, but there's never enough time to talk about everyone. Madlib and Terrace deserve big ups
Terrace is a certified legend
I was aware of Jazz at a young age, but Hip Hop really brought me to it. I love how Hip Hop has done that for so many people and how they are now intertwined.
This is true as Lakecia hints at, many of our first interactions with jazz are through hip hop
so happy you mentioned nubya garcia - she's a legend in the making in the London jazz scene
Dilla brought me here ✨ much love for this
Turntablism is jazz, I do not separate the two. One and the same, the turntable is the instrument and the performance is the language. The record is the tonality of the instrument.
Excellent episode! RIP J Dilla
I remember a few years back when Herbie Hancock played a solo piano concert at the Kennedy Center in DC. Somebody in the audience yelled out 'Rocket' and the whole auditorium busted out in laughter.
Jazz and Hip-Hop is the perfect marriage. Both art forms enhance eachother. You got a new Subscriber. 👊🏾✌🏾
Thank you for including Lakecia Benjamin! Lakecia's albums, "Retox" and "Rise Up" live and breathe Hip-Hop Jazz!!! I also love Kris Funn's albums, "CornerStore" and "Bodega" - which samples "CornerStore".
Do a video on SOPHIE and her impact on music!! (on hiphop, hyperpop, normal pop music) r.i.p.
I’d lovve to see this
Would love to learn more about how this fusion is mixing with funk and rock in London/UK with artists like Yussef Dayes/Jordan Rakei/Alfa Mist/Barney Artist/Tom Misch. That crew seems like such an interesting subject for a profile
especially there its a fusion of dub, broken beat, dnb, etc. : )
true, so much electronic streams flowing in too!
100% would love to see this. The London/UK scene has been such a breath of fresh air!
Also DOMi and JD Beck :)
I agree!! I’m loving all those artists, someone just needs to make a feature documentary on that whole scene.
I have been into hip hop since 1990, I was 9. I recently got into Jazz, like deep into it, last year. I got all those questions right. Tracks would come up in my supermix on youtube music that I had heard growing up, but now the originals. I heard Nautilus for the first time and my jaw dropped. Hip Hop is built on that song...and Chameleon by Herbie Hancock is my Nautilus, I love that track.
Samplers made a major influence on modern music there was a kid named J Spencer and Ronnie Jordan that made some major Influences in the mid and late 90s .Sly Stone used a drum machine on family affair .Check out Herbie using the Fairligjt sampler and sequencer HIP HOP INFLUENCES.
What an amazing video! I loved the part where they talk about J dilla’s lack of quantization. J Dilla , Pete rock and Madlib are definitely my biggest influences. Jazz will never die
Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, Nas, Digable Planet, what a great concentration of artistry I have in my HD thanks to a great friend of mine called Eric Dejong. His mother is from US and his father is from the Netherlands. In the early 90's he has brought suchlike great Hip Hop music to Europe (Brussels) way before it even was well known in the US. Thumbs up to him for his great musical influence over Europe at that time. He is a music lover and a great person.
Thank you for including Freestyle Fellowship on here!
Love the Track sounds like a Dilla and Badu Vibe! I’m from Detroit so I dig it!
That track at the end was actually awesome I'd love to hear a full version
I'm a huge huge fan of Nujabes and BADBADNOTGOOD who had straight-up never ever heard of J Dilla until watching this episode. Now a whole world's been opened up. Thank you Sound Field!
The more time passes by, more videos surface about the glory in sampling, jazz, general influence in music, and much more; and I couldn't be happier.
*We really need to acknowledge Nujabes for his contribution to the birth of Lofi which has alot of jazz influence*
More hip hop & jazz recommendations:
- Guru's Jazzmatazz
- The Roots (specially From the Ground Up)
- Yussef Kamal
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
- Abstract Orchestra
Enjoy!!
to think that Miles was alive and contributed so much through out so many eras of Jazz blows my mind
There's that lofi hiphop mentions. Moonchild. Nujabes. The whole scene. It's always changing and constantly redefining to what I listen too.
This was on point! A few years ago I saw a gig where Karreim Riggins played with a group of other young Detroit Jazz musicians, and I saw that hip hop rhythm influence first hand. It was one of my favorite events!
Fantastic documentary i stumbled upon. As a fan of both Jazz and Hip Hop, it was a very well explained how Hip hop borrowed from Jazz and has evolved. The presenting was top notch and really enjoyed the interviews. Can we get more of these ?
This video is amazing and i feel like the foundation and tones of Jazz aren't highlighted enough these days in Hip Hop considering it was a fundamental genre Hip Hop strived off of in the early days for inspiration and still til this day.
My dad was a Bob James fan so it was quite interesting to hear his music sampled in hip hop especially when I was younger. It's how I grew to like both genres heavily!
Great video like always. This is one of my favorite UA-cam channels ❤️
I love this channel. The passion and research are on point.
this means a lot to us. We are really putting so much of ourselves into each episode.
And here I thought US3 and Cantaloop was groundbreaking :D
Always great to see how the commonly accepted influences can flow backwards too.
In the UK there’s a big contemporary jazz scene. Acts like Ezra Collective, Yussef Dayes, Kamaal Williams, Tom Misch, Mansur Brown. You can see how influence hip-hop (and especially UK grime and garage) has had on their music. Their music isn’t exactly jazz rap or neo-soul or a subgenre that goes under hip-hop, it is modern day jazz, just taking in influences of other music around today (which a lot of classical jazz artists did in the 60s - it’s just hip-hop wasn’t around for them to embrace). I definitely recommend them to jazz fans and rap fans
Thank you Sound Field. That was beautiful. I grew up listening to many genres of music, but jazz, Latin jazz and fusion are my favourites. I like hip hop and have a deeper appreciation now, thanks to this video and your channel. Keep up this awesome content 💜🙏🏾💙🎺💃🏾🎼🎹🎧🎷
That's what we are here for! we love all music and we are glad you're joining us.
I got into jazz through my love of hip-hop. first by going through all of the samples used in Nujabes' songs.
Shout out to Chris Dave and the drumhedz.
This episode is was DOPE. I like how you guys break it down and make it informative and entertaining..never bored.
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And now both together influence Lo-Fi 😊
For going from loving music to loving the study of music, and doing both at the same time... you're the perfect channel! Thanks for all that you do! ❤️
Wow, as a music educator, I'm so pumped to show my students this, as we descend into our quarter studying composers. Bravo!
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im glad hiatus kaiyote got a shoutout even though they havent been active lately
Always love your topics and videos!
Immediately when I saw the title, I knew TPAB was gonna be mentioned lol. Kendrick is such a groundbreaking artist, with a wide range of influences; I had the pleasure of getting floor seats to see him perform on the "DAMN" tour, and I'm eagerly awaiting his next album (almost 4 years now, come on Kendrick!)
I love the track at the end!! Great video 👍👍
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Nice job to the team who made this. Hella appreciate you mentioning Freestyle fellowship who don't get enough praise. I'd nominate Hieroglyphics Crew and Quannum Projects for further study. Nice track at the end too.
I would have been upset if TPAB wasn't mention. I'm happy the history have been mention along with others. Such as Tribe, Dilla, and Pete Rock.
Well done! Very Happy I discovered this channel!
I live for this channel. Thanks for the content.
Thanks for all the music reccs 😁😁😁😁
Another great episode, thank you Sound Field!
Thank you so much for this
so cool that they made a song to close out this mini-doc!
Excellent video. Thanks a lot for this
Acid Jazz is absolutely just Jazz/Hip Hop music fusion
Wow I’m glad to find this!
Another fantastic episode, informative & entertaining. Keep up the good work!
I really enjoyed this. Much appreciated!
thank god youtube recommendations for recommending this gem
Amazing content as always. Saving all these records for later. Keep it coming!!
Y’all are so dope so glad y’all showed up on my feed 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Thank you for this video and for sharing your knowledge!!!
whole video just magical