Re: Acid Jazz and Disco

From: gtrplaya ! (gtrplaya@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 22:13:10 CEST

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    >From: Paul Berger <paulberger65@yahoo.com>
    >To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    >CC: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    >Subject: Re: Acid Jazz and Disco
    >Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 12:13:45 -0700 (PDT)
    >
    >Hi All,
    >
    >Man, all I had to do was mention the word DISCO and
    >everyone's panties gets in a wad :) Folks, it's only
    >music, and like acid jazz, some of it was good and A
    >LOT of it wasn't. When I said that I hope acid jazz
    >doesn't go the way of disco, I meant that I hope that
    >acid jazz wasn't tainted so badly that no artist would
    >consider producing that type of music again. For me,
    >acid jazz has a certain vibe to it. Take for example,
    >the song by Remy Shand called 'Take A Message'. To me,
    >that has acid jazz written all over it. Same thing
    >with Jill Scott's 'A Long Walk' or anything from
    >Maysa's 'All My Life' CD. It's apparent that acid jazz
    >as a musical movement has run its course, but the
    >music itself should be able to linger a bit. Whoever
    >said that it was morphing into different things was
    >right. Hell, acid jazz itself morphed from early
    >fusion, and it was a refreshing change from all the
    >overproduced crap out there. Now everything's
    >splintered off into hybrids of this and that, and
    >that's fine. I just get nostalgic for the tone that
    >was set back then. In this post 9-11 world, I just
    >hope that something just as musically positive can cut
    >through the haze.
    >
    >Take Care-----Paul Berger---
    >
    >(BTW, Loius Johnson ruled everything he played on, and
    >I'm sad to see that he's retired. He has that right,
    >and I'm sure his royalties from the Thriller album
    >took care of him nicely.)
    >
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