Re: Beginner
Doopeyduk@aol.com
Fri, 8 Dec 1995 08:59:11 -0500
As for your first question: there really isn't a lot of difference between a
lot of acid jazz and fusion, just like there isn't a lot of difference
between Wynton marsalis and hard bop, or Dr Dre and P-Funk, Country music and
70s soft rock and Soundgarden and Black Sabbath. As a matter of fact Im
still waiting for the genre to catch up with Miles Electric recordings, not
to mention Weather Report, Jean Paul Bourelly and Steve Coleman. Or james
brown, P-Funk and sly, for that matter, to take what they did and go places
with it (this chilled out laid back stuff is starting to smell a lot like the
movement that made a lot of West Coast jazz so flat) If you are a jazz fan,
you have a lot of "acid jazz" in your collecion already. Acid jazz - in the
instrumental sense (excluding the hip-hop/dub/dance influence) is a style of
music that has been going on for years, all the way back to the soul jazz
stuff people like Cannonball and Charles Earland put out.You can get a good
working knowledge of people like disJam by just listing to Lonnie Liston
Smith, herbie Hancock Brian Auger, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jimmy Smith (his stuff
on Verve like :"Sit on It") or Deodato. Not to mention roy ayers, Grover
Washington, etc. some of that stuff was pretty boring, but some of it was
pretty cool.
doop