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CD - It 's like Jazz
 
the debut album from Dutch female trumpet master combines the hippest elements of jazz & acid jazz with beefy, bottom heavy hip hop breakbeats, trancy house grooves, latin flavors, R&B & the rapping talents of Poetic Voice, Mac Maestro & QF Da Funkee P - flute (Ronald Snijders), sax (Hans Dulfer & Benjamin Herman), keys (Rob Gaasterland, also co-production, recording& editing) & vocals (Johnny Kelvin) round out the mix. 
 
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Song credits
01 Ya know how we do /5.38min /116 bpm. Music: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music ; Lyrics: Lauwerends/Polygram Music. Saskia Laroo : Trumpet melody & solos ; Rob Gaasterland: Keyboard, Organ solo & Bass Accomp. Shoutouts at the end by Saskia, Marvin & Rob ; Guests: Ronald Snijders: Funky Flute solo; Mac Maestro: Rap Vocals
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If ye get it ye got it /6.09min / 96 bpm. Music & Lyrics: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music / Saskia Laroo: Muted Trumpet & Upright Bass Line ; Rob Gaasterland: Keyboard Accomp & Guitar Line. Guests: Hans Dulfer: Tenor Sax Solo, Ghasem Batamuntu: Voice
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It 's like Jazz / 5.18min / 96bpm. Music: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music ; Lyrics: Hankers/Laroo Music, Dannarag, Lauwerends/Polygram Music / Saskia Laroo: Trumpet Solos ; Rob Gaasterland: Accomp Synthesizers. Guests: Ghasem Batamuntu: Voice; Zebulon: Rap Vocals; QF Da Funkee P: Rap Vocals; Mac Maestro: Rap Vocals
04
Poocee (the black & white monster) / 5.08min / 122bpm. Music & Lyrics: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music / Saskia Laroo: Horn Section (Trumpet & Alto sax) & trumpet Solos
05
Jazzparty / 3.19min / 105bpm. Music: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music ; Lyrics: J Jean Baptiste/Laroo Music. Saskia Laroo: Muted trumpet solo, Upright Bass & Alto Sax ; Rob Gaasterland: Space Synthesizer. Guest: Johnny Kelvin: Vocals
06
Drop that Horn / 3.13min / 136bpm. Music & Lyrics: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music / Rob Gaasterland: Keyboard Solo
07
Where you going m'am  / 5.46min / 88bpm. Music: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music ; Lyrics: Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music. Saskia Laroo: Trumpet & Muted trumpet Solo ; Rob Gaasterland: Space Synthesizer & Rap vocals. Guest: Ghasem Batamuntu: Voice
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Sunday Afternoon / 4.12min / 122bpm. Music & Lyrics: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music / Saskia Laroo: trumpet Solo
09
Hipfunk D / 4.09min / 120bpm. Music & Lyrics: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music / Saskia Laroo: Trumpet & Muted trumpet Solos & Upright Bass / Guests: Benjamin Herman: Alto Sax  Solo
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Ya know how we do (radio edit two) /4.16min /116bpm. Music: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music ; Lyrics: Lauwerends/Polygram Music. Saskia Laroo : Trumpet melody & solos ; Rob Gaasterland: Keyboard, Organ solo & Bass Accomp. Shoutouts at the end by Saskia, Marvin & Rob ; Guests: Ronald Snijders: Funky Flute solo; Mac Maestro: Rap Vocals
11 Jazzparty / 0.32min  / 105bpm. Music: Laroo/Laroo Music, Gaasterland/Gaasterbop Music ; Lyrics: J Jean Baptiste/Laroo Music. Saskia Laroo: Muted trumpet solo, Upright Bass & Alto Sax ; Rob Gaasterland: Space Synthesizer. Guest: Johnny Kelvin: Vocals 

Liner notes: Saskia Laroo is one of those all too few musicians, especially in the jazz world, who appreciates that she is in the entertainment business. To paraphrase her, “When I ‘’m playing I like people to have a good time and dance, this is how jazz started. I don ‘’t just want to play music for other musicians.” She is careful to point out that she has a lot of respect for those musicians who take a more intellectual approach to their music- but it was that scene that nearly lead her to give up on jazz alltogether.
Fortunately for us she didn ‘’t, instead she discovered Jazzdance. IT ‘S LIKE JAZZ is the product of Saskia drawing on all her much in demand musicianship plus her writing and arranging skills to produce an exellent CD full of headnoddingly good grooves. Heavily infulenced by the Jazzdance scene it corporates an eclectic mix of moods, styles and beats with an emphasis on that essential ingredient “swing”. Saskia Laroo and Friends doin’  that thing, check it! By Graham B, Amsterdam, May 1994
Brief album description:
On this debut CD with an acid jazz character, there is a mixture of groovy beats (R & B-core Hiphop, Trancy House, Jazzdance Boogaloo 's and Electric Latin Flavours) combined with Funky Instrumental Themes, Freestyle Rap, Soulf\ul Vocals and Jazzy Improvised Solos.
Saskia plays Trumpet, Acoustic Bass and Alto Sax on the Album. She composed, arranged and produced all the songs herself together with keyboard player Rob Gaasterland. He recorded mostly of the tunes in his: "Studio the Boat", floating somewhere in Amsterdam.
Album credits:
Tracks 1 t/m 9 & 11 : Produced, Arranged, Computer Programmed & Recorded by Saskia Laroo & Rob Gaasterland Recordings : Studio de Boot. Additional Recording & Preproduction : Saskia ‘s Studio; Mixed at Studio de Boot. Track 10 : Produced & Remixed by Brook, trans & Enes T. Mixed & Add Prod. & Remix by John Tilly “The Tillerman” 
Mixed at Cavern Studios / Photography by Nick van Ormond. Make up by Charlotte van Lent. Graphic Design by Ronald Timmermans, Michele Mathijssen & Yukimasa Kagi 
Liner notes by Graham B. Distributed by Bertus Distribution, the Netherlands. 1994/1995  Laroo Records; Laroo Music; Laroo Productions
Musicians: Saskia Laroo: trumpet lines&solos on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,  7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ; alto sax on 4, 5, 11;  upright bass on 2, 5, 9, 11. Rob Gaasterland: synthesizers&keyboards  on 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11  ; guitar on 2 ; vocals on 7. Ghasem Batamuntu: voice on 2, 3, 7. Johnny Kelvin: vocals on 5, 11. Mac Meastro: rap vocals on: 1, 3, 10 ; Zebulon: rap vocals on 3. QF da Funkee P: rap vocals on 3. Ronald Snijders: flute on: 1, 10. Hans Dulfer: tenorsax on 2. Benjamin Herman: alto sax on 9

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