Jazzy Jeff Townes is one of Philadelphia's best-kept secrets. Maybe he's best known as the onetime partner to rapper-turned-superstar-actor Will "The Fresh Prince" Smith. Whether working homespun magic on mega-hits like "Parents Just Don't Understand," Smith's TV series and even a production credit on Smith's current Big Willie Style, Jazzy Jeff personifies suburban homeboy cool - a musical style that's funky and chilled. But what's often overlooked about Jeff is that he was one of rap's most influential spinners from waaay back; a DJ quicker than lightning who could scratch that itch, find a sonically pure (but sweetly reminiscent) moment and knock the bottom out of a breakbeat quicker than you could say "Grandmaster Flash at the wheels of steel."     When not spinning in the land of the good groove - at hip-hop locales like Smoke and the blue horizon of Fluid - Townes has been seen and heard in the company of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez, the two DJ/artist/producers known as Masters At Work. The three spinners recently collaborated on Vega & Gonzales' Nuyorican Soul epic - easily one of last year's best records. At his B-day bash look for the New York dynamic duo to give a li'l sumpin back to Philly's own master jammer. 

 

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