Re: Slide Five & AJ def.

Eric Kalabacos (ekjazz@netcom.com)
Sat, 28 Oct 1995 17:39:34 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 28 Oct 1995 ZADAMS@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU wrote:

> Two Things:
> 1) A couple days ago someone mentioned that at the On the One party
> that Greyboy and Slide Five played at, that Slide Five had a vocalist.
> Is that true? All of their tracks I've heard, on complilations (Mo'
> Cookin', Still Cookin, & Best of Acid Jazz) were instrumental (& rocked).
> So for their album are they gonna have a male/femal vocalist? Do they
> have any other tracks out?

If you're talking about Tuesday night's show (which wasn't an On the One
party), the woman that sang with Slide 5 was Ledisi (and she definately
tore the place up). I think she performs (w/out Slide 5) at 330 Ritch on
Thurs, nights.

>
> 2) It really does not seem that silly to me to continue to refer to a genre
> of music by a name that people know it by, even after a record label
> copyrights it...(what would you do if someone named their record company
> "Blues Records"?). Legislating word usage is wack.
>
> zed
>
a rose by any other name is still a rose just the same ;)

peace,
ek =o)