REVIEW | GZA LIVE AT THE JAZZ CAFE LONDON — THE HIGHLIGHTS

By SKANDOUZ . • On Reviews

I tell you what… The ven­ue and pro­moter were happy as they man­aged to com­pletely sell out the Jazz Café twice in one day with both a Mat­inée and Even­ing per­form­ances to cap­it­al­ise on the demand to see the Legendary Wu-Tang emcee.

The only set­back is the 57 year old GZA had to pace him­self and couldn’t deliv­er a full all guns blaz­ing con­cert for his fans.

Say­ing that, GZA’s mere pres­ence along­side the bril­liant Phunky Nomads live band (Led by ODB’s older broth­er & GZA’s cous­in Ram­sey Jones) def­in­itely adds addi­tion­al life to GZA and Wu-Tang’s music­al catalogue.

Hear­ing GZA run through some clas­sic songs and verses such as “Tri­umph” was abso­lutely a rare delight which us Hip Hop heads should nev­er take for granted.

Although there was no tease of new music, high­lights included GZA per­form­ing clas­sic Wu-Tang songs such as “Pro­tect Ya Neck” and a rendi­tion of ODB’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” in trib­ute to his fallen fam­ily mem­ber as well as per­form­ing his own clas­sics such as “4th Cham­ber” from the time­less “Liquid Swords” Album.

GZA’s style is very lyr­ic­al so don’t expect to see him get super ener­get­ic onstage but over­all the GZA live exper­i­ence presents an abso­lutely dope a night of Shaol­in goodness.

7⁄10
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