Jazzmatazz Volume II: The New Reality

Jazzmatazz, Volume II 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. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru's_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)