Jill Scott - Jill Scott Collaborations
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Artist: Jill ScottEdition: Music CD
Published: 2007
CD Release Date: 2007-01-30
Music Label: Hidden Beach
Soundtracks:
- Love Rain (Head Nod Remix) - featuring Mos Def
- Daydreamin' - featuring Lupe Fiasco
- Good Morning Heartache - featuring Chris Botti
- Said Enough - featuring The Isley Brothers
- One Time - featuring Eric Roberson
- Let Me - featuring Sergio Mendes & Will.I.Am
- 8 Minutes To Sunrise - featuring Common
- Funky For You - featuring Common & Bilal
- Sometime I Wonder - featuring Darius Rucker
- Slide - featuring Jeff Bradshaw
- The Rain - featuring Will Smith
- God Bless The Child - featuing Al Jarreau & George Benson
- Kingdom Come - featuring Kirk Franklin
- Love Rain (Coffee Shop Mix) - featuring Mos Def
Music reviews of Jill Scott Collaborations
Music Review: Very warm but not quite hot
Rating: 4 Stars
This collection of duets, triunes and other 'collaborations' is reportedly a prelude, a warm-up if you will, to Jill Scott's album of new material scheduled for release in the summer. I can't wait!
Hardcore Jill fans will probably have most if not all of the songs on here but it's nice to have them all in one place. I love everything the woman does but I can't say I'm a hardcore fan. I was thinking of getting the new George Benson & Al Jarreau CD for instance, not just because I'd heard good things about it (or because of the Grammy win) but also because I knew Jill was featured on it. As it happens, I think their version of "God Bless The Child" is very nice.
But there are a couple of tunes on here I wouldn't ever have gone looking for, like "Said Enough" featuring the Isley Brothers or "Let Me" featuring Sergio Mendes & Will.I.Am and I can hardly hear her at all on "Funky For You", which features Common & Bilal. I was pleasantly surprised by "The Rain" though, the collaboration with Will Smith, and I found myself humming the refrain all day after listening to it just once.
I agree with an earlier reviewer and must say I can't believe they didn't put the live version of "You Got Me" with The Roots on here. It's bad enough that Jill wasn't allowed to sing on the original studio version back in the day, but to not include it here is totally baffling. It's one of Jill's best songs (she wrote the hook, of course) and it is the song that kick started her career after all. I don't get it.
Anyway, the album still showcases Jill's wonderful range, her singing, her beautiful spoken voice and her poetry (I still think poets make the best lyricists: "She's going down to Zanzibar," she tells us on "Slide" featuring Jeff Bradshaw, "Where the drinks are strong and the men are smooth." That one line - my favourite line on the whole CD - paints an attractive picture in my mind all on its own).
I also particularly like her version of "Good Morning Heartache" with Chris Botti but I also strongly recommend the Gladys Knight version on the sountrack of the defunct TV series "New York Undercover". (Ms Scott does it very well but Ms Knight does it much better).
All in all, the album is a great showcase and a great introduction to Jill Scott's work for anyone who hasn't checked her out yet. It only tells half the story though and I'm sure there'll surely be a greatest hits or similar collection coming along soon. In the meantime, roll on summer 2007!
The bonus CD sampler has one new song from Ms Scott, "In Stereo", presumably from her upcoming album. I didn't think much of it but maybe I need to hear more. The CD also has a couple of songs from various Hidden Beach artistes and while they're all undoubtedly talented folk, only a few caught my ear: "God Is On Your Side" by Onitsha, "Love Me Too" & "Crazy" by Sunny Hawkins, "Happy Feelings" & "Wait Around Love" by Jeff Bradshaw and all three songs by Leigh Jones: "Cold In LA", "Who, What Why?" And "Suddenly".
But none quite caught my ear enough to make me want to rush out and go buy. In fact the only song on the bonus CD that I really dug was the live version of Jill Scott's "The Fact Is (I Need You)", recorded in Paris.
Now that made me jump up and down, beaming from ear to ear. Which for me, is what Jill Scott is all about!
Description of Jill Scott Collaborations
Talent, Innovation, Style, Charisma, Passion and Versatility are just a few of the words that come to mind when people talk about the true artistry that has become Jill Scott's trademark.Jill's chameleon-like ability to passionately perform in an eclectic array of genres, from hip hop, to jazz, to urban alternative, to spoken word, to latin jazz and gospel, has led many of her fans and peers to call her "The Real Thing."
Jill Scott Collaborations is arguably the most unique set of collaborations by one artist ever assembled. The Jill Scott Collaborations CD has something for music fans of all types as it features many of Jill's collaborative efforts over the past six years including her incredible work with WILL SMITH, SERGIO MENDES AND WILL.I.AM of the Black Eyed Peas, MOS DEF, CHRIS BOTTI, AL JARREAU AND GEORGE BENSON, KIRK FRANKLIN, MOS DEF, LUPE FIASCO, and others.
At the time of its release, internet rumor had it that Collaborations was a "taster" project--that is, a sampler to whet listeners' appetites for Scott's long-awaited third solo album, due in summer of 2007. But Collaborations doesn't play like something you'd listen to once before throwing your napkin (or, more accurately, your earbuds) down. Not only does it genre-jump with the kind of precision you don't normally find in an artist pinned to a certain musical movement (in Scott's case, neo-soul), it throws the weight of its bold names around without straining or slacking under the pressure. The hit here is "Daydreamin'," a fuzz-encrusted slice of alternative hip-hop off Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor, but there's so many other full-bodied contenders for mass adoration it could easily be eclipsed as the favorite. They include the soul-soaked "Said Enough," with the unmistakable Isley Brothers; the noirish thumper "8 Minutes to Sunrise," with Common (who also gets "Funky for You" together with Bilal); and "Slide," maybe the sexiest jazz-and-R&B hybrid ever to heat up a mainstream diva's disc. On that track, credit goes to Jeff Bradshaw for brilliance with his brass. But consider it: how many other singers could pull off sultriness alongside a trombone? Scott is a shape-shifting vocal wonder; Collaborations is the latest evidence. --Tammy La Gorce
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