February was both the month that J Dilla was born and passed. It's been 3 years since he passed and still his mark on music is massive and almost everyday i hear a new dilla piece i have never heard before or missed the first time round.

Suite for Ma Dukes initially began in 2007, on what would have been Dilla's 33rd birthday, when Niño & Atwood-Ferguson recorded and released their strings, brass and reeds-only version of J Dilla & Common’s “Nag Champa” to DJs, producers and fans over the internet for free. They had written the entire piece to accompany the record as a their tribute to Dilla, feeling that the producer was still in the track not by his presence but by his absence.

The 4 tracks on Suite for Ma Dukes cover Dilla's productions from “Antiquity” and “Nag Champa”, A Tribe Called Quest's “Find a Way” and Slum Village's “Fall in Love”.

here are a few links i have found about the project for you to check.

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhg_fPD-Lhc]

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE_WX72hNjs]

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onnB6q5427g]