lg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stimpson [SMTP:stimpson@total.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 1998 6:41 PM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu; carl schimmel
> Subject: Re: AJ LANDMARKS SINCE LATE 80'S
>
> 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
> >
> >