REVIEW: Jill Scott's Collaborations

Jill Scott (or "Jilly from Philly" as my friend Leonardo likes to call her) has released her fourth album in an attempt to appease clamoring fans, impatient for Volume Three of her studio releases and who have become tired of listening to Words and Sounds, Volume One: Who is Jill Scott? and Words and Sounds, Volume One: Beautifully Human.

Collaborations contains some of the choice remixes which have been played on KCRW and other progressive radio statons for years but may have been hard to get, specifically two remixes of "Love Rain" from her very first album. The two tracks are: Track 1, Love Rain (Head Nod Remix) featuring Mos Def, and Track 14, Love Rain (Coffee Shop Mix) featuring Mos Def.

The CD also contains some unsual collaborations: "Kingdom Come" featuring Kirk Franklin, "Let Me" featuring Will.I.Am (from Black-eyed Peas) and Sergio Mendes, and "Something I Wonder" featuring Darius Rucker (Hootie!)

However, the best track on the album is track 2, "Daydreaming" (featuring Lupe Fiasco). The video for the track is below:



The album is not bad, but it definitely does not sate the appetite for a full-length studio record.
GRADE: B+.