Clever Jeff has been played on NTS shows including Soul in Paradise w/ Jamma Dee, with Year Of The Fly MC first played on 16 November 2017.

Clever Jeff's debut album, Jazz Hop Soul, was among the 1990s projects that combined hip-hop with elements of jazz. It would have been interesting if Jeff, a Bay Area rapper with solid rhyming skills, had been joined by an actual jazz band and improvising soloists. But while Jeff, who produced the album with Dave G, employs trumpet players on a few selections, he… More usually raps to programmed tracks -- most of which are sleek, hypnotic, and jazz-influenced….