RE: Rough DEFINITION for CLASS PROJECT

Lizaso, John
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:25:36 -0500

I would start first buy getting your hands on some roots of acid jazz
cd's. You can tell where present day acid jazz artists got their
influences. In my opinion, acid jazz is jazz with a 70's, almost funk
groove. But this definition is too easy. If I was doing a report on
acid jazz, I would definitely parallel it with jazz itself, that it can
not be directly defined easily. If you look at jazz itself, no book,
artist, person, etc. could define what jazz is. They just tell what
influenced jazz to come about.
jl

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> From: carl schimmel[SMTP:carl.schimmel@yale.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 6:47 PM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Rough DEFINITION for CLASS PROJECT
>
> I know that defining acid jazz is of secondary interest to many
> people, but
> I am doing a project on acid jazz for a jazz course in graduate school
> here
> at Yale, and I am trying to get a better idea of how I should explain
> acid
> jazz during my presentation. I can't say "jazz that's danceable" or
> "dance
> music with jazz influence" or "jazz-rap" I don't think, although all
> of
> these things could be acid jazz. Does AJ's birth as jazz sampling
> combined
> with dance beats and/or rapping have anything to do with what AJ is
> today?
> I'm interested in getting people's opinions on why the following
> are or
> are not AJ: Elements of Life, KG and Halloran, Jamiroquai, Us3,
> Buckshot
> LeFonque, Simon Bartholomew, James Taylor Qt., Quiet Boys, Emperor's
> New
> Clothes.... I'm particularly interested in why James Taylor Quartet
> is AJ
> and not just 70's big band.
> Maybe a better route would be to ask: what danceable jazz is NOT
> acid jazz?
>