Argo said:
> It's interesting that a lot of the latest "acid jazz" or "nu-jazz" (people
> playing with jazz elements and electronics) has been aiming in
> the direction
> of sounding more like jazz. It seems to me that artists
> responsible for that
> classic acid jazz sound were concerned with creating a new sound very
> distinctive from jazz.
I would disagree with that. The "classic" acid jazz sound, as personified by
the Acid Jazz stable of artists, was very "retro," recalling the funk and
rare groove of the early 70's. That is why, for all intents and purposes,
acid jazz as a genre is now "dead" -- the term is passe. It was a revivalist
movement that has long past its prime. That's not to say there weren't some
talented and forward-thinking people working in that vein, but I don't see
the current scene as evolving from that at all. That was a live band-based
scene in the traditional sense. I see the current "nu-jazz" scene as
evolving out of the lone "bedroom producer" movement, where people started
experimenting with strictly electronic (programmed) music and then slowly
began adding more and more of a "live" feel.
I'd have to credit Kirk Degiorgio as being a real visionary for the current
wave of "nu-jazz". As far as I'm aware, he was one of the first musicians to
successfully integrate techno with jazz, and not have it sound ludicrous.
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Mark Turner
nugroove@pacbell.net
www.jazzadelica.com
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