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Acid jazz from the Ubiquity Records Cookin' compilations. Popular in the early '90s, acid jazz is not a rigidly defined genre. However based upon this album it's breakbeats and live musicians playing a hybrid funky soul jazz/electronic/dance/hip-hop. Some of the songs can be a bit smooth for my tastes (my only problem with acid jazz in general), but there a lot of great music that hits hard and be funky. Explore this record--it's a fine compilation and I pretty much liked it all, recommended tracks include CD1 tracks 1, 4, 5, 9, 11, and 13; CD2 tracks 1, 3, 5, 9, and 10
CD1
1) **Super groovy jazz loop under sax after brief intro
2) Guitar and piano, smooth fem vocal, sax and flute solos
3) Synthesizer and tenor sax
4) *Up-tempo, vibes with lots of percussion and snapping.
5) *Jazzy loops with spoken samples and trumpet
6) New Orleans funksters featuring Hammond and Sax
7) Prominent bass with Sax and Keys
8) Down-tempo sparse beat with quiet sax
9) *Loops with sax jam and female vocal sample
10) Mellow horns
11) *Up-tempo Ammons tune
12) Sparse rhythm to start into '70s style jazzfunk
13) *Guitar and boozy mute horn
CD2
1) *Soul Jazz w/ guitar and sax
2) female vocal sample
3) *Up-tempo piano loop with flute jam
4) Guitar, percussion spoken word,
5) *Latin beat and bass, wide synthesizer
6) Ping pong sample, spoken word/scat vocals
7) Spacey vocal sample, reggae flavored with deep bass
8) Flute and keyboard on mellow piece
9) *Spoken intro, up-tempo drums and bass with guitar jamming
10) *Dark bass and sparse drum with echo-y guitar (?)
11) Relaxed lounge with trumpet, Hammond, guitar, drums.