A Touch Of Jazz
LABEL: Champion
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1987
CATALOGUE NO: CHAMP 12-47
RUNOUT GROOVES: CHAMP-1247A2 DAMONT TOWNHOUSE (Side A) CHAMP-1247B1 MT DAMONT (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in May 1987 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
DJ JAZZY JEFF & FRESH PRINCE ‘A Touch Of Jazz’ (US Jive 1040-1-JD)
Much rescratched and extended with a title line vocal drop-in, Jazzy Jeff’s 103⅙bpm vintage jazz-funk medley of Marvin Gaye ‘T Plays It Cool’, Bob James ‘Westchester Lady’, Donald Byrd ‘Change’ (and now ‘Places And Spaces’), Bobbi Humphrey ‘Harlem River Drive’, Grover Washington Jr ‘Mr Magic’ is in three new mixes (the flip’s with added rap and some Chic ‘Good Times’) plus the LP’s original, beautifully packaged
DJ JAZZY JEFF & FRESH PRINCE ‘A Touch Of Jazz’ (Champion CHAMP 12-47)
As well as their LP’s original jazz-funk scratch medley, there are three dynamite much re-scratched and extended remixes, at 103⅓bpm here apart from the 103⅙ Collapsed In The Street Mix, which is the most altered of all with added rap. The shape of things to come?
SIDE A 1: A TOUCH OF JAZZ Extended Re-Touch
MIXED BY: D.J. Jazzy Jeff
LENGTH: 04:47
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY THAT ARE BEING CUT UP:
Marvin Gaye - "T" Plays It Cool (1972); Bob James - Westchester Lady (1976); Donald Byrd - Change (Makes You Want To Hustle) (1975); Bobbi Humphrey - Harlem River Drive (1973); Donald Byrd - Places And Spaces (1975); Grover Washington, Jr. - Mister Magic (1975)
SIDE A 2: A TOUCH OF JAZZ
MIXED BY: D.J. Jazzy Jeff
LENGTH: 03:10
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY THAT ARE BEING CUT UP:
Marvin Gaye - "T" Plays It Cool (1972); Bob James - Westchester Lady (1976); Donald Byrd - Change (Makes You Want To Hustle) (1975); Bobbi Humphrey - Harlem River Drive (1973); Grover Washington, Jr. - Mister Magic (1975)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a D.J. cut-up.
SIDE B:
A TOUCH OF JAZZ Collapsed In The Street Mix - D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
A TOUCH OF JAZZ Collapsed In The Street Edit - D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
