Jay's Selection

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{{Infobox album

| name = Jay's Selection

| type = Mixtape

| artist = Jamiroquai

| cover = Jay'sselection.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1996

| recorded = Various

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Funk, disco, electronica

| length = 69:10

| label = Sony Music Japan

| producer = Jay Kay

| prev_title = The Return of the Space Cowboy

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = Travelling Without Moving

| next_year = 1996

}}

Jay's Selection is a compilation album released by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album features a selection of tracks chosen and mixed by lead singer Jay Kay. The album was released exclusively in Japan in 1996.{{Cite web | url=http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=430935 | title=Jamiroquai Jay's Selection Japanese Promo CD album (CDLP) (430935) }}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| headline = Jay's Selection track listing

| total_length = 51:26

| extra_column = Original artist

| title1 = Footsteps in the Dark

| writer1 = Chris Jasper, Ernie Isley, Ronald Isley

| extra1 = The Isley Brothers

| note1 = from Go for Your Guns, 1977

| length1 = 5:08

| title2 = Lady Sun

| writer2 = Beloyd Taylor

| extra2 = Earth, Wind & Fire

| note2 = from Raise!, 1981

| length2 = 3:40

| title3 = Sun Goddess

| writer3 = Jon Lind, Maurice White

| extra3 = Ramsey Lewis

| note3 = from Sun Goddess, 1974

| length3 = 8:30

| title4 = In Time

| writer4 = Sly Stone

| extra4 = Sly and the Family Stone

| note4 = from Fresh, 1973

| length4 = 5:46

| title5 = The World Is Yours

| writer5 = Nasir Jones, Pete Rock

| extra5 = Nas

| note5 = from Illmatic, 1994

| length5 = 4:51

| title6 = Everybody Is a Star

| writer6 = Sly Stone

| extra6 = Sly and the Family Stone

| note6 = single, 1969

| length6 = 3:02

| title7 = Free

| writer7 = Deniece Williams, Hank Redd, Nathan Watts, Susaye Greene

| extra7 = Deniece Williams

| note7 = from This Is Niecy, 1976

| length7 = 5:59

| title8 = Fight the Power

| writer8 = Chris Jasper, Isley Brothers

| extra8 = The Isley Brothers

| note8 = from The Heat Is On, 1975

| length8 = 5:18

| title9 = I'm Kurious

| writer9 = Kurious

| extra9 = Kurious

| note9 = from A Constipated Monkey, 1994

| length9 = 3:56

| title10 = For the Love of Money

| writer10 = Anthony Jackson, Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff

| extra10 = The O'Jays

| note10 = from Ship Ahoy, 1973

| length10 = 7:18

| title11 = Chameleon

| writer11 = Bennie Maupin, Harvey Mason, Herbie Hancock, Paul Jackson

| extra11 = Herbie Hancock

| note11 = from Head Hunters, 1973

| length11 = 15:42

}}

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