Have Fun

No Jazz
Up Music
General | Apr 2006

Reviews

Princess D
Reviewed 2006-06-07
No Jazz - Have Fun
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Acid Jazz/Hip Hop - Herbalizer meets St. Germain.
No Jazz are a French outfit. "Have Fun" features: Earth, Wind & Fire Maurice White, Wayne Vaughn, a key figure in American black music, Stevie Wonder, violinist Karen Briggs, deck wizard and Snoop Doggy Dog's musical MD Terrace Martin, percussionist Mino Cinelu (Sting, Pat Metheny, Miles Davis), as well as French legend Claude Nougaro.
Upbeat, positive. Have Fun sums it up.
Start with (1,7) for hip-hop oriented shows, (2) for jazzy sets, (3) for both.
** (1) Hip hop mixed with smooth jazz.
** (2) Scratched latin jazz: Spanish guitar, horns, male vocals.
** (3) Glitchy, jazzy, great beat.
(4) Starts with sitar and tabla with underlying beat, then moves to western sounding acid jazz.
* (5) Cuban,loungey.
(6) R&B, slower. Slick, over-produced.
** (7) Heavy beat, hip hop, jazz horns.
(8) Latin Jazz, crazy male talking, fast.
(9) Slow, ambient jazz, female rapping.
(10) Short jazz interlude.
(11) Shouted hip-hop, Ozomatli style.
(12) Funky hip-hop and soul.
* (13) French male vocals Serge Gainsbourg style, fast jazz.

Recent airplay

Kool
Kool
Have Fun
One Note
Have Fun
Plastic Fantastic LoverJul 24, 2006
Boogaloo
No Cover, No MinimumJul 21, 2006

Charting

2006-06-11 — 2006-08-13 Electronic, Reggae/World
Week EndingAirplays
Jul 30 2
Jul 23 1
Jul 16 3
Jul 2 1
Jun 18 2

Track listing

1. Have Fun
2. Flamingo
3. Boogaloo
4. Akosha
5. El Negro Zumbon
6. Nobody Else
7. Waka
8. Charlie Gets Wicked
9. One Note
10. The Bridge
11. Jump
12. Kool
13. Le K Du Q