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Jon Jung (jjung@mail.summer.hawaii.edu)
Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:19:13 -1000


on the strength of hearty recommendations from this
list i recently bought "blue break beats" vol. 1 from
blue note and was rather disappointed. its much
more jazzy in a seventies way than i expected- funky
jazz, yes but not jazzy funk. the beats were pretty
weak. and its very organ heavy. there are a number
of very good tracks, but i just thought one non-
ecstatic review was in order.

---This strikes me as very odd because when this compilation first came out,
all my "acid jazz" friends loved it so much, they were asking me left and right
anout the artists. Who's Lou Donaldson, do you have any Groove Holmes, etc.
Though I respect your opinion of not liking it, your statement of it not being
"jazzy funk" strikes me as odd since Blue Note has always been a jazz label,
never anything else and also your comment "its very organ heavy" sounds almost
negative. If you examine most funk/soul bands in the 60s and 70s, you'll find
an organist on about 70% of them (of course, I may be exaggrating but the organ
was a very common instrument). That's cool that you have a less than ecstatic
opinion about it, though. Actually, I've been wanting to post a message about
something I've noticed in many a-jazz listeners but I'll save it for tomorrow.

--Jon