Madlib - "Shades Of Blue" 2023 Pressing label_Fat Possum Records Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean

To listen to it is to join them in the studio

Muse didn't set out to make the most gloriously ambitious album of their career

this UD1S reissue exists as a curatorial artifact meant to be preserved

Madlib - "Shades Of Blue" 2023 Pressing label_Fat Possum Records Jackie McLeanThe sound of Blue Note had been embedded in hip hop through sampling and remixes since its early days, but Madlib raised the bar when the DJ producer rapper musician invaded their vaults for his 2003 masterpiece, Shades Of Blue a visionary album featuring remixes reimaginations of classics by Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Ronnie Foster, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter and more. Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series is all analog mastering from the original