Re: AJ LANDMARKS SINCE LATE 80'S

Stimpson
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:41:24 -0400

For the record, US3's "Cantaloop", was taken almost entirely from Donald
Byrd's "Cantaloupe Island" (recorded back in '64), very much like Puff
Daddy's "I'll be missing you" is taken almost completely from The Police's
"Every Breath You Take". But sure, I think that you can name a few landmark
records that reincarnated the whole genre. Here's my list of AJ landmarks:

1)Tribe Called Quest-People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythym-
some will argue that this is more a rap record than an AJ record, but anyone
who knows Tribe will agree that they were one of the first rap acts to use
jazz samples very heavily

2)Miles Davis- Doo Bop; TOTALLY rocked my world back in '93. Too bad Miles
died before the record was finished; he would have been proud.

3)Digable Planets- Reachin' (a new refutation of time and space). Still my
favorite acid-jazz record

4)Guru- Jazzmatazz volume 1- featured many old jazz-funk musicians like Roy
Ayers, Donald Byrd and Lonnie Liston Smith. N'Dea Davenport even sings on
one tune.

5)The early "Rebirth Of Cool" series- The first compilation of acid-jazz to
be widely distributed. Turned alot of people on to AJ for the first time.

6)Massive Attack- Blue Lines (nuff said)

7)Early Brand New Heavies- Definitely helped define the sound

8)Early Incognito- Ditto

9)Early James Taylor Quartet- helped revive the Hammond/B3/Moog sound and
had people digging out their parent's old Jimmy McGriff and Herbie Hancock
records

10)Us3-Hand On The Torch- Cantaloop (flip fantasia) is probably the first
AJ tune to be widely recognized. Sold millions

Keep Bumpin'

Stimpson

-----Original Message-----
From: carl schimmel <carl.schimmel@yale.edu>
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 6:46 PM
Subject: AJ LANDMARKS SINCE LATE 80'S

>I'm curious to see what bands/tracks people consider to be "landmarks" in
>the "acid jazz" "movement" since the term was coined. Might the first
>somewhat-acid-jazz mainstream popular hit be Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) by
>Us3? Here I'm assuming I guess that this could even be termed "acid jazz."
> Maybe the fact that AJ isn't so mainstream means that there aren't really
>as many recognizable landmarks as there might be in, say, rap. Is AJ
>becoming more drum 'n bass influenced and less funk influenced? If so what
>major artists or tracks could be considered responsible for/examples of
>this? I'd like to get a better idea of AJ's recent history, and maybe
>charting it with "landmarks" would be a good method.
>
>-carl
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