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{{Distinguish|Dazz Band}} {{Infobox song | name = Dazz | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Brick | album = Good High | B-side = {{ubl|"Southern Sunset" (7")|"Music Matic" (12")}} | released = July 6, 1976 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = * Disco<ref name="Bradley 2014">{{cite book|title= The Alternative Jukebox|first=Huey|last=Morgan|date= November 4, 2014|chapter= The 1970s: Brick - "Dazz|page= 77|publisher=Cassell|isbn=978-1-84403-789-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_phoAEACAAJ}}</ref> * jazz<ref name="Bradley 2014"/> | length = 3:23 (radio edit)<br>5:35 (full version) | label = Bang | writer = Regi Hargis, Eddie Irons, Ray Ransom | producer = Jim Healy, Johnny Duncan, Robert E. Lee, Brick | prev_title = Music Matic | prev_year = 1976 | next_title = Dusic | next_year = 1977 }}

"'''Dazz'''" is a song by R&B/funk band Brick. "Dazz" is a combination of disco, funk and jazz, hence the title "Dazz", a combination denominator for "Disco Jazz".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mentalitch.com/brick-and-their-disco-hit-dazz/|title=Brick and Their Disco Hit "Dazz"|website=MentalItch.com|date=3 February 2016 |access-date=26 August 2019}}</ref> Released in 1976 from their debut album ''Good High'', it would become their biggest hit, spending four weeks at the top of the R&B singles chart, while reaching number three on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 41 on ''Billboard''{{'}}s year-end chart.<ref>{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=78}}</ref> In Canada, it reached number 26.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.5157a.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - January 29, 1977}}</ref>

Another popular 1970s-era soul group, the Dazz Band, took their name from the song.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.soultracks.com/the_dazz_band.htm|title=The Dazz Band|website=SoulTracks.com|date=6 May 2007 |publisher=SoulTracks, LLC|access-date=29 September 2019}}</ref> The song was featured in a house party scene in the 2016 action-comedy film ''The Nice Guys'', set in 1977. It was also featured in a scene in the 2019 Elton John biopic, ''Rocketman''.

==Sampling== "Dazz" has been sampled by multiple artists (partial list):<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whosampled.com/Brick/Dazz/sampled/|title=Samples of Dazz|website=WhoSampled.com|publisher=WhoSampled.com, LLC|access-date=26 April 2023}}</ref>

*"No Vaseline" by Ice Cube from his 1991 album ''Death Certificate'', arguably the most well-known instance of the song's sampling, and considered by some to be the greatest diss track of all time. *"Cinderfella Dana Dane" by Dana Dane from his 1987 album ''Dana Dane with Fame''. *"Jazzie's Groove" by Soul II Soul from their 1989 album ''Club Classics Vol. One''. *"Do You Wanna Get Funky" by C+C Music Factory from their 1994 album ''Anything Goes!'' *"Search 4 the Lyte" by MC Lyte from her 1991 album ''Act Like You Know''. *"Lavish" by 415 from their 1990 album ''41Fivin.''

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Category:1976 songs Category:1976 singles Category:Brick (band) songs Category:Bang Records singles