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With its fourth season recently premiering on HBO, Boardwalk Empire is one of those programs. The award-winning drama takes viewers into the organized crime underbelly of Atlantic City during Prohibition Era. Music plays a small role in the series, but a promoCD mix to celebrate this new season has been released that brings some of those vintage recordings from the 1920s to the modern day. Boardwalk Empire presents Sounds of The Onyx features an array of producers who put their magic touch on classic recordings by Eva Taylor & Clarence Williams' Blue Five, Ethel Waters, Lloyd Scott & His Orchestra, Jim Jackson and Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten Orchestra. Reworks come to us by way of Pete Rock, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Om'Mas Keith, Shafiq Husayn, JayCeeOh & B-Sides and Tall Black Guy who chop, flip and strip these tracks as only they can and bring them into the 21st century.

“Sounds Of The Onyx … may be the start of a new music sensation of ‘jazz rap,’ producing an intoxicating new sound of sublime vintage jazz recordings reworked into a more modern day urban vibe.”