Re: VS: popularity
Santos L. Halper (elson@westworld.com)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 01:03:44 -0700
At 10.24 AM 4/14/1997 +0300, Kovalainen Antti wrote:
>>gonna use another term, let's all (and all meaning the whole world, not
>>just the list) agree on it, define it to the world, and use it.
>>Realistically, "Acid Jazz" probably won't die; Remember a couple years
>>ago
>>in London when Giles Peterson and the Talkin Loud crew tried to throw a
>>party to 'officially celebrate the death of the term "Acid Jazz"'? I
>>don't
>>know if the whole thing was a joke or not, but the event was eventually
>>cancelled.
>
>I don't think it was a joke, as Gilles Peterson himself said, he came up
>with the term 'acid jazz' with James Lavelle some 10 years back and got
>tired of it later, due to the fact that the description is not accurate...
Yeah, yeah, I know the whole story. I was merely asking whether that "death
of 'Acid jazz'" event (I remember it was supposed to be in '95 or early
'96; someone even posted the event on this list) was a
joke/publicity stunt/etc and the real reason why it was cancelled.
Elson
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