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>ATN Album Review: Idris Muhammad's Legends Of Acid Jazz
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>By G. Pascal Zachary
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>The history of a buzz term often repeats itself. At
>first, it has the power to startle, shock, even
>illuminate. Then, as the slogan grows more familiar, it
>becomes exploited, slapped on to anything
>remotely related to original impulse and, finally,
>drained of meaning and discarded or, worse, turned
>into a caricature.
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>Such is the fate I envision for the term "acid jazz," a juxtaposition of
>two of the hippest code words in art and life...