I like the term acid jazz, also. Unfortunately, it seemed
to become a bad word in musical circles, sometime in the
last couple of years. I've been told it was due to a large
number of pretty crappy "acid jazz" (the genre, not the
label) releases that came on the heels of all the early/mid
90's BNH/incognito/galliano stuff. It really irks me that
a perfectly good term would be abandoned due to some poor
quality/bandwagon-jumping works associated with it. I
mean, we still call rap and hip hop, rap and hip hop,
despite the boatloads of questionable releases in that
genre of music (and ditto for every other genre). Now,
when i occasionaly write an 'acid jazz' review and I want
to give a quick impression of the what the music sounds
like, i'm stuck trying to describe the music with terms
like downtempo, nu-jazz (I hate this term, BTW), or the
generic modifier 'jazzy'. Either that or I'm stuck breaking
it down into even more specific genres, like broken-beat,
west-london, brazilectro, house-not-house, etc. - which I
also hate. Why does everything have to have it's own neat
little category?
We need to start a PR campain for acid jazz, to refute the
earlier associations with bad music, and get it back into
common usage. Yeah. From now on, on my radio show and
every review i write, any and all good music is getting
called acid jazz, no matter what the genre. I'm just gonna
confuse the hell out of people, and then when they're all
confused, they'll be more willing to re-accept the term
'acid jazz' as a describer of good music. I urge the rest
of you to do the same...
--- "Leslie N. Shill" <icehouse@redshift.com> wrote:
> My dear friends and music lovers, the harder we try to
> name what we love musically, the further we get from
> anything real and the closer we get to institutional
> tagging (UGGGH and BLECH!) Acid Jazz works pretty well
> for me and the information I derive from this list and
> the various contributors (you know who you are!) is very
> valuable to me and it goes well beyond any wordy
> definition, people seem to know what they like and, more
> importantly, what is GOOD and that makes the difference
> not the name of it.
NP -
Nortec Collective - Tijuna Sessions
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Breakestra - The Live Mix Part 2
=====
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the Fat Beat Diet - Thursday evenings
CJSW 90.9FM (Calgary) - in real audio at:
http://www.cjsw.com
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