Yesterday's New Quintet ANGLES WITHOUT EDGES

Yesterdays New Quintet: Madlib, Monk Hughes, Joe McDuffrey, Malik Flavos, Otis Jackson Jr.Recorded at The Dump and at The Bomb Shelter, Los Angeles, California 2001. Includes liner notes by Dave Tompkins.Using jazz experimentation, education, and the unequivocal brilliance of his hip-hop creativity as a primary instrument, Madlib leads this record of paramount importance in the modern jazz and hip-hop worlds alike. Favoring swatches of lounge-heavy atmosphere and Fender Rhodes rivers to forever soulful infinity, big beats, and abstract soloing on everything from vibraphone to the turntable itself, Angles Without Edges is where music hoped to go by 2001. This is a hip-hop record made with jazz principles of improvisation, spacy cut-and-paste passages of drifting solos, and periods of vamping grooves that are layered handsomely with uncut breaks that build on top of themselves, eventually creating what may be the Bitches Brew of the new millennium. Released on the progressive and reputab