I bought this album because I heard Amy Winehouse reference Soweto in an interview. It's absolutely mind blowingly brilliant. It's great to hear hip hop being brought to a new level. All that bling bling bullshit isn't going to help your average young dissaffected youth. This might.
This is one of the best if not best Hip Hop album I have heard in many years. The jazz vibe gives a very city feel to the album and its numerous humourous stories reflect the pain of city life. You could almost smell the city air, the people, the subway station and the cranky lift.
Whereas soweto's release Conversations with the Unseen is nearly entirely instrumental jazz with a little hip-hop, this album has the opposite ratio. If you want instrumental jazz pieces, you'll want to preview the tracks. That said, I enjoyed the whole album. “Whereas Conversations With The Unseen took hip hop to a jazz audience, B19 aims to take jazz to the hip hop audience” says Soweto. (quote from the dunejazz page)
![Jazz At Massey Hall (with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach) [Bonus Track Version] album cover](http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/130/498/13049887/300x300.jpg)
