Re: Acid Jazz and Disco

From: Paul Berger (paulberger65@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 21:13:45 CEST

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    Hi All,

    Man, all I had to do was mention the word DISCO and
    everyone's panties gets in a wad :) Folks, it's only
    music, and like acid jazz, some of it was good and A
    LOT of it wasn't. When I said that I hope acid jazz
    doesn't go the way of disco, I meant that I hope that
    acid jazz wasn't tainted so badly that no artist would
    consider producing that type of music again. For me,
    acid jazz has a certain vibe to it. Take for example,
    the song by Remy Shand called 'Take A Message'. To me,
    that has acid jazz written all over it. Same thing
    with Jill Scott's 'A Long Walk' or anything from
    Maysa's 'All My Life' CD. It's apparent that acid jazz
    as a musical movement has run its course, but the
    music itself should be able to linger a bit. Whoever
    said that it was morphing into different things was
    right. Hell, acid jazz itself morphed from early
    fusion, and it was a refreshing change from all the
    overproduced crap out there. Now everything's
    splintered off into hybrids of this and that, and
    that's fine. I just get nostalgic for the tone that
    was set back then. In this post 9-11 world, I just
    hope that something just as musically positive can cut
    through the haze.

    Take Care-----Paul Berger---

    (BTW, Loius Johnson ruled everything he played on, and
    I'm sad to see that he's retired. He has that right,
    and I'm sure his royalties from the Thriller album
    took care of him nicely.)

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