> >I've heard many of these 'mainstream yuppie jazz' artists use drum loops
> >or swing beats, and when I hear it, I go, "Oh, that's cute." But all it
> >amounts to is their kind of music with the hip-hoppish beat, and nothing
> >more.
>
> That is true much of the time. But it shows that AJ is having an influence
> on the mainstream (good, bad, or otherwise).
IMHO, it's probably more of a hip-hop influence than acid-jazz. I'm sure
by now *everyone* knows about hip-hop, but not acid jazz. I can picture
someone like, say, Jeff Lorber incorporating some hip-hop swing loop
into his fusionpop stuff, thinking he's stumbled on something unique, but
uunaware that others have been doing the same thing for years already.
Elson