Gary Thomas - Guaranteed Flow

feat. No Name, Barrikade, Pork Chop, Mustapha

34-year old Gary Thomas is one of the most acclaimed saxophon players of contemporary jazz. Gary was a regular member of the Miles Davis Group and of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition. Gary Thomas released five CDs with his own groups on JMT. Downbeat called his style "post-bop-techno-hiphop-out-jazz" and a German daily described his music as "a fusion between John Coltrane and the rapper Ice-T". In 1994 Gary Thomas decided to record Overkill, a pure hiphop project. It features a hiphop-experienced five piece band, Baltimore based rappers like Ransome, Barrikade and Pork-Chop and as very special guests the Italian rap-star Jovanotti and ex-Incognito singer Maysa. Gary Thomas sums up his motivations to do the Overkill - project the following: "For the last few years I wanted to do a hiphop record. To be honest, hiphop is really my first love as far as music is concerned. I played jazz for a long time - and a lot of other kinds of music - but the music with the rappers is different: it's just so close to home and I'm used to it from where I grew up. It's just one of those things that's close to the heart. I don' t think that a definition of hiphop is important, it' s just like when you ask people what's jazz: you get 20 different definitions. Definitions in music are something that record companies need to make money 'cause people are so label-oriented and need categories. For me the bottom line is whether it's good music or not.
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