Review: Sly5thAve - The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute to Dr. Dre + Grand Performance

Now, let's think, what about a top 3?  Madlib, definitely.  Dilla, of course.  But as someone once said, "Don't forget about Dre".  And Austin's Sly5thAve certainly hasn't as the composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist took to the rostrum to conduct a 30-piece orchestra at the weekend performing the work of Dr. Dre with turntable royalty, J-Rocc.

Now on YouTube (see below), Sly5thAve, who released the original 'The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute To Dr. Dre' on Tru-thoughts back in 2017 followed by 3 other album on the label, was gracious to acknowledge Eric Coleman in the crowd who had his own 'Grand' events as co-founder of Mochilla (along with Brian Cross, aka B+) when they did their big orchestral event 'Suite For Ma Dukes - The Music Of James "J Dilla" Yancey' as conducted/arranged by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (CD/DVD 2010, that was released on vinyl in 2021 as a Record Store Day release!)  

And the links there, J-Rocc headlined the lanch release party for 'Suite for Ma Dukes' in London's Cargo with other top underground hip-hop folks like members of the Heliocentrics and Daedelus.

In the new tribute to Dre, all ya big tunes are there, 'No Diggity', 'California Love' and, of course, 'Forgot about Dre' and it's just a classy (and classical) as the Dilla event.

But is it me, just can't help feeling someone has forgot about Madlib?