{"id":3719,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/hidden-beach-recordings-unwrapped-vol-1\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"hidden-beach-recordings-unwrapped-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Beach Recordings &#8211; Unwrapped Vol 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Unwrapped\" height=\"90\" hspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/unwrapped.jpg\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"90\" border=\"1\"\/><font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Hidden Beach<br \/><\/font>  <font color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:12pt\">Unwrapped<br \/><\/font>  <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\">(Hidden Beach &#8211; 2001)<br \/> by S.H. Watkins, Sr.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">This is the latest offering from the record company that brings you both <i>Jill Scott<\/i> and <i>Brenda Russell<\/i>, one a diva of hip-hop soul and the other a diva of jazz. A lot of folks have tried mixing hip-hop with jazz (Guru, Jimmy Sommers) with varied results, but Hidden Beach has a new twist here and I think it&#8217;s right on the mark. Instead of trying to mix the genres artistically, they used jazz artists to perform renditions of popular hip-hop songs.  <\/p>\n<p>  The old-line jazzers will not be offended by the modern lyrics because they are not there, only the grooves. The young jazzers that like hip-hop will love the balance, and the hip-hop folks that DON&#8217;T listen to jazz will hear these (known) songs on the air and listen to them as another remix&#8230; exposing them to jazz. As time progresses, we need to bring in new jazz listeners or the average age will soon match the retirement age and jazz will become history&#8230; Can&#8217;t have that!  <\/p>\n<p>  The CD itself is bamming! I particularly like the remakes of the outrageous hip-hop combo <i>Outkast<\/i> hits <i>Ms. Jackson<\/i> and <i>So Fresh So Clean<\/i>. There are other songs that were popularized by artists like <i>Jill Scott<\/i> (of course), M&amp;M, Tupak Shakur, Mystical and others. Fortunately, you don&#8217;t have to have ANY idea who these artists are to enjoy the CD because the tracks are performed by the likes of <i>Patrice   Rushen, Paul Jackson, Jr., Everett Harp and HBR&#8217;s own Mike Phillips<\/i>.  <\/p>\n<p>  I recommend this CD from two levels&#8230; first because I like it. Secondly because it gives listeners of very different genres a chance to experience the other in a way that may actually work. I don&#8217;t imagine and old-line jazzer listening to the original version of <i>I Get Around<\/i>, but he may well appreciate this version. Likewise, your average hip-hop afficianado would not normally be listening to <i>Paul Jackson Jr.<\/i> or <i>Patrice<\/i>, but here are a few tracks where they undoubtedly will. Bravo to Hidden Beach and Executive Producers <i>Steve McKeever <\/i>and <i>Tony Joseph <\/i>for their foresight and daring in putting this together.   <\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>    <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden Beach Unwrapped (Hidden Beach &#8211; 2001) by S.H. Watkins,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}