what are some of the artist names or groups that turn a rap song into jazz.?

(1) GANG STARR. In 1988, Gang Starr released the debut single "Words I Manifest," sampling Charlie Parker, and Stetsasonic released "Talkin' All That Jazz," sampling Lonnie Liston Smith. Gang Starr's debut LP, No More Mr. Nice Guy (Wild Pitch, 1989), and their track "Jazz Thing" for the soundtrack of Mo' Better Blues, further popularized the jazz rap style.

(2) DE LA SOUL & the NATIVE TONGUES POSSE. De La Soul and their cohorts in the Native Tongues Posse had jazzy releases, including collaborations with the Jungle Brothers and A Tribe Called Quest.

(3) JUNGLE BROTHERS. Jungle Brothers' debut, a collaboration with De La Soul, was Straight Out the Jungle (Warlock, 1988).

(4) A TRIBE CALLED QUEST. A Tribe Called Quest collaborated with De La Soul on their debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (Jive, 1990). Their follow-up album, The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991), had only a modest jazz influence, but it was a critical success, and earned praise from jazz bassist Ron Carter, who played double bass on one track.

(5) BUHLOONE MINDSTATE. De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate (Tommy Boy, 1993) featured contributions from Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, and Pee Wee Ellis, and samples from Eddie Harris, Lou Donaldson, Duke Pearson and Milt Jackson.

(6) MILES DAVIS. Though jazz rap had achieved little mainstream success, jazz legend Miles Davis' final album (released posthumously in 1992), Doo-Bop, was based around hip hop beats and collaborations with producer Easy Mo Bee.

(7) HERBIE HANCOCK. Davis' ex-bandmate Herbie Hancock returned to hip hop in the mid-nineties after coming to the genre in the early 1980s with his single "Rockit," releasing the album Dis Is Da Drum in 1994.

(8) BRANFORD MARSALIS. Jazz musician Branford Marsalis collaborated with Gang Starr's DJ Premier on his Buckshot LeFonque project that same year.

(9) DIGABLE PLANET. Digable Planets' 1993 release Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) was a hit jazz rap record sampling the likes of Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. It spawned the hit single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)."

(10) Us3. Also in 1993, Us3 released Hand on the Torch on Blue Note Records. All samples were from the Blue Note catalogue. The single "Cantaloop" was Blue Note's first gold record.

(11) FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP

(12) ACEYALONE

Recordings by Freestyle Fellowship and Aceyalone fuse jazz with hip hop, by including jazz elements such as unusual time signatures and scat-influenced vocals.

(13) GURU. Beginning in 1993, Guru's Jazzmatazz project uses live jazz musicians in the studio. Its four volumes so far have assembled jazz luminaries like Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Courtney Pine, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Garrett and Lonnie Liston Smith, and hip hop performers such as Kool Keith, MC Solaar and Guru's Gang Starr colleague DJ Premier.

Us 3, WuTang, Gang Star, Tribe Called Quest,

GZA does remixes of jazz

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