"Close To You" is one of the most soulful tunes we've ever heard from Beanfield – a great little groover that's mixed here by Maurice Felton with some skipped-up beats that sound mighty nice! The "acoustic" mix actually has a sweet bit of electric keys – all washing around in the background, and providing a nice sonic foil to the tune's sweet guitar! The flip features some spacey, spooky remix work by Chateau Flight – of another soulful tune, "Tides"! 12-inch, Vinyl record

A groundbreaking meeting of musical icons – with veteran jazz greats, a couple of then-young guns, and one of the MCs who helped bring jazz into hip hop in the first place! Jazzmatazz bridges both stylistic and generational boundaries in incredible ways, not only an earnest effort by Guru to pay heartfelt tribute to heroes, but to show his own and subsequent generations its the vitality and longevity jazz music – with a lineup that includes Donald Byrd, Roy Ayers, Ronny Jordan, Lonnie Liston Smith, Carleen Anderson, N'Dea Davenport and MC Solaar. 12 tracks in all, including "Slicker Than Most", "No Time To Play", "Loungin", "Sights In The City", "Le Bien, Le Mal", "Transit Ride", "When You're Near", "Down The Backstreets", "Respectful Dedications", "Take A Look At Yourself" and "Trust Me". (Hip Hop, New Grooves) CD