Top 7 Light Jazz Sample Songs
In a world filled with samples, it’s strange that Jazz hasn’t appeared more often in the creations of DJs and hip-hop beat wizards. But here’s 7 Jazz-Sampling songs (in no particular order) that you should own or at least know.
1. The Garden- Cut Chemist: This song borrows vocals from Astrud Gilberto’s Berimbau and uses the same string samples as another favorite tune of mine, Goldrush by The Herbaliser.
2. Convolutions- Freestyle Fellowship: This 46 second interlude is a freestyle over a sped-up and slightly inverted version of Miles Davis’ So What.
3. The Gentle Rain (RJD2 Remix)- Astrud Gilberto: This remix of a bossa song also includes an inverted piano sample from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger’s Dat Dere.
4. Splattiorium-Pharcyde: This rap’s background is Vince Guaraldi’s Fly Me to the Moon with a hiphop beat.
5. Rodney Yates- David Holmes: Remember that killer electronic bossa from the beginning of Ocean’s 11? Well that groove came from Chico Hamilton’s MSP. Just take a listen!
6. Kraftworks- The UMC’s: This trippy, bouncy old-style hiphop track features Lee Morgan’s The Sidewinder as its beat.
7. Down The Line- Nice & Smooth: the “A Night In Tunisia” bassline. Need I say more?
So that’s that. Hope you found some grooves you really like.