Re: Jazz? Acid?

Simon Brown (zcfbm25@ucl.ac.uk)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:54:45 +0000

>In my beginning years of getting into (dare I say it?) acid jazz, a huge
>number of bands that I was checking out seemed to have a tendency to play
>one Herbie Hancock song. It was a song played by the Miles Davis Quintet as
>well. Without venturing into my CD's I think the song is called
>"Footprints." Though, I haven't heard the song in about 2 years by any
>band, at the time I was beginning to consider it something of an acid jazz
>(emphasis on the jazz) standard. I'm sure there are others ("Creator Has A
>Master Plan" comes quickly to mind), but I don't have the brain power to
>dive into it right now. Interesting question though.

I count myself as an acid-jazzer who plays jazz too. It's a jazz standard in
as much as it appears in my copy of the real book. Creator doesn't appear
though...
I this is accounted for by the idea that AJ is a whole mix of different
influences (one of which is jazz) which is what makes it such fun to play.
For instance I went to one jam where one of the numbers had a real Egyptian
feel to it and I ended up open-tuning my guitar (DADGAD) which I'd never
done before at an AJ gig. Stay flexible
elevenisms

Simon Brown
s.j.brown@ucl.ac.uk
UCL Geology (2nd year)