Re: Renaming the List

Bijan Pesaran (bijan@cco.caltech.edu)
Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:04:37 -0700 (PDT)


Big up to the "groove" name. Acid jazz is a lame name - just like
trip-hop - and I try to use it as little as possible.

On the flip side, some of us have better things to do so if it's too much
work to organise a possible change ...

bijan

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Mark Turner wrote:

> Here's my .02 on the list name debate.
>
> Elson wrote:
>
> > It all depends - certainly when we discuss music here it fits within the
> > funk/hip-hop/latin/jazz/soul/worldbeat/R&B/reggae/jungle - i.e.
> > groove-based genres.
>
> And that seems like an excellent summary to me. The key word is
> "groove," and if a majority of members are sick of the "acid jazz"
> tag, I say re-name it the "groove" list. The concept of groove
> has certainly been around longer than any specific genres, and
> will probably encompass most of the music that interests us in the
> future. But having said that, I have no real problem with "acid
> jazz." :-)
>
> --
> Mark Turner
> mturner@netcom.com
>