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Guru - Jazzmatazz, Volume 2: The New Reality (1995)

01. Guru - Intro (Light It Up) / Jazzalude I / New Reality Style
02. Guru - Lifesaver (feat. Baybe & Lucien)
03. Guru - Living in This World (feat. Sweet Sable)
04. Guru - Looking Through Darkness (feat. Mica Paris)
05. Guru - Skit A (Interview) / Watch What You Say (feat. Chaka Khan)
06. Guru - Jazzalude II / Defining Purpose
07. Guru - For You (feat. Me'Shell NdegéOcello)
08. Guru - Insert A (Mental Relaxation) / Medicine (feat. Ini Kamoze & True Master)
09. Guru - Lost Souls (feat. Jay Kay)
10. Guru - Insert B (The Real Deal) / Nobody Knows (feat. Shara Nelson)
11. Guru - Jazzalude III / Hip Hop As a Way of Life
12. Guru - Respect the Architect (feat. Bahamadia)
13. Guru - Feel the Music (feat. Baybe)
14. Guru - Young Ladies (feat. Kool Keith, Big Shug & Patra)
15. Guru - The Traveler
16. Guru - Jazzalude IV / Maintaining Focus
17. Guru - Count Your Blessings
18. Guru - Choice of Weapons (feat. Gus Da Vigilante & Dee C Lee)
19. Guru - Something in the Past
20. Guru - Skit B (Alot on My Mind) / Revelation (feat. Bu)


Jazzmatazz, Volume II (The New Reality) is the second solo studio album by American hip-hop musician Guru. It was released on July 18, 1995, through Chrysalis Records as the second installment of the rapper's Jazzmatazz album series.

The recording sessions took place at D&D Studios and at Firehouse Studio in New York, with additional recording at Platinum Island Studios, Unique Studios and The Hit Factory in New York, at Matrix Studios and EMI Studios in London, and at Echo Studios and Brooklyn Sound in Los Angeles. The album was produced by Guru, the Solsonics, Carlos Bess, DJ Premier, Mark Sparks, Nikke Nicole, and True Master.

It features a large number of contributors, including Big Shug, Branford Marsalis, Courtney Pine, Dee C Lee, Donald Byrd, and Ronny Jordan, who previously appeared on the first Jazzmatazz album, as well as Bahamadia, drummer Bernard Purdie, Chaka Khan, Freddie Hubbard, Ini Kamoze, Jamiroquai, Kenny Garrett, Kool Keith, Lucien Revolucien, Meshell Ndegeocello, Mica Paris, Ramsey Lewis, Reuben Wilson, and Shara Nelson.

In the United States, the album peaked at number 71 on the Billboard 200 and number 16 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

The album also peaked at No. 8 on the Swiss Hitparade, at No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart (also No. 2 on the UK R&B Albums Chart), at No. 19 on the Sverigetopplistan, at No. 24 on the Offizielle Top 100, at No. 25 on the Official New Zealand Albums Chart, at No. 28 on the Ö3 Austria Top 40, at No. 30 on the Dutch Album Top 100 and at No. 39 on the ARIA Albums Chart.

(Wikipedia)


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