eric@ayalounge.com wrote:
>
> Paul Berger wrote:
> > I hope acid jazz doesn't go the way of disco.
> >
>
> You mean go underground and morph into a variety of fresh new sounds like
> house and techno, like Disco did? I think it's already happened, though
> acid jazz was always underground, now it has morphed into NuJazz and Broken
> Beats.
I don't think that acid jazz ever went away, just like disco never went
away (the latter is better known nowadays as "house"). The essence of
acid jazz has mutated and morphed, as Eric has indicated, into many
different variants and styles.
It might be a stretch on my part, but I think that part of the appeal of
acid jazz as we know it (not the watered-down, "smooth-jazz" variety) is
that it's a combination of strands and styles formed to allow new
flavors.
With colorful variants incorporating jazz elements such as broken beats,
techno, drum n' bass, nu-jazz, and other genres/subgenres, the spirit of
acid jazz lives on and keeps thriving and evolving. Boundaries continue
to get pushed into new and exciting directions. It's a thrilling time
musically, I think.
V.
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