What is AJ?

Carl Cranstone (carlos@mtx.net.au)
Sun, 29 Oct 1995 00:25:18 +-9-30


Just on the topic of "What is Acid Jazz?", can I just post this quote =
on the question "What is Jazz?" which I happened across just today. And =
I quote:

"...It was Louis Armstrong,..., who was once asked by a ... reporter on =
behalf of her readers, 'Just what is jazz?'. He looked at her for a =
moment and replied, 'Honey, you tell 'em if they gotta ask, they ain't =
ever going to know' "

(from: The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed.)

I'm not really happy with the "Acid Jazz" name, but what else can you =
call this music? Perhaps something like "N'Jazz" - N for New, N for =
Nineties, ..whatever. If you have to label it so that you know what it =
is, you ain't ever going to know what it is!

l8r

(Currently listening to DJ Krush, "Krush" and some old 70's funk stuff =
on "New Jazz Spectrum Vol 3").