When Branford Marsalis decided to take a sideways detour in his jazz career to
play hip-hop rhythms, rock, R&B, reggae and a host of other influences off
against his jazz roots, he decided to call the project Buckshot LeFonque. The
name was borrowed from Cannonball Adderley, who used it back in the 1950s to
cover his tracks while recording for a record company other than his primary
label.
Buckshot LeFonque's self-titled first album was released in 1994 and drew the
wrong kind of fire from various critical quarters, but that didn't stop the
recording of a second offering, 'M...