From: Paul Berger (paulberger65_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2003-01-14 20:41:48
Hi Nick,
My name is Paul, and I live 35 miles north of
Chicago(lake Forest). I'm going to take a little bit
of a stance here; if acid jazz were dead, this list
wouldn't exist. The heyday of acid jazz was mainly
from '91 to '97, and then it kinda branched off into
lounge, electronica, and other different areas.
Funk-jazz, soul-jazz, nu-jazz, whatever you want to
call it, still lives on. Jazz will always get more
play in Europe, mainly because of their incredible
appetite for music and culture. For the most part,
jazz is too complex for the average American ear. Not
me; I got it when I was 6 or 7, because my brother and
sisters were always playing different music in their
rooms; Emerson Lake and Palmer, Joni Mitchell, Tom
Scott, Tim Weisberg, Crusaders, Genesis, Passport(a
huge one; they were a German fusion band that put out
some amazing stuff), Chicago, Clapton, The Monkees
:-), Allman Brothers, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac,
Deodato, Bread, to name a few. That basically opened
my ear to a wide range of styles, but jazz and
Jazz-rock really hooked me later on. That exposed me
to Chuck Mangione, Jeff Lorber, Herbie Hancock,
Weather Report, Al DiMeola, Pat Metheny(my favorite
musician to this day), etc.
I got into acid jazz about 11 years ago, and just
latched onto it immediately. Spent way too much money
on import compilations and whatnot, taped from this
one show called 'Moods + Grooves', which Dirk Van Den
Huevel from this very list was a part of. That show
was my education in acid jazz for 4 years. From all my
collecting, which ranged from the expensive to the
free(yes, I used Napster to look for and get a lot of
really super-obscure stuff), I put together a 30 CD
series for myself based solely on Acid Jazz. I still
hear some good stuff coming out that fits into what I
would call my new definition of acid jazz. Anything
from Incognito, Kruder + Dorfmeister, Jazzanova, lots
of DJ related stuff.
Anyway, where can I find this Saturday night acid
jazz radio program you mentioned? I'd like to check it
out.
Take Care-----Paul Berger---
--- Nicholas Drozdoff <ndrozdoff_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Well, according to a couple of posts that came
> through, I seem to have
> missed the show, darn it!
>
> Well, then I want to learn much more! The idioms
> listed were as follows:
>
> From previous post:
> "It was. Acid Jazz is dead. But its spirit lives on
> in several genres:
>
> neo-soul,
>
> broken-beat,
>
> deep house,
>
> drum n bass,
>
> dancehall,
>
> downtempo,
>
> 2-step garage,
>
> "jam band" music,
>
> underground hip-hop,
>
> etc."
>
> If someone on this list would be kind enough to
> point me towards sources of
> recorings, mp3's. etc. where I can study and learn
> about these styles, I'd
> be most grateful. I must admit to being rather
> perplexed about all of these
> genres! Where did they come from? What traditions
> are they based on? Or, are
> they completely new inventions? You get my drift.
>
> Man, in music school and in working as a free-lance
> pro in the Chicago area,
> I've studied, trad jazz, dixieland, cool jazz,
> be-bop, post bop, fusion,
> neo-classical be-bop, etc (along with various
> pop/rock horn styles for my
> jobbing work). However it seems I've blinked in a
> big way and missed the
> development of a rather complex set of new jazz
> spin-off genres. I would
> really appreciate your advice here.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ND
> http://www.mp3.com/NickDrozdoff
>
>
>
>
>
>
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