RE: Jazz / Acid / Standards?

Elson Trinidad (ertrinid@skat.usc.edu)
Fri, 15 Dec 1995 13:46:22 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Jon Jung wrote:

> Actually, when I read these posts, I thought that people were commenting on the
> roots of acid jazz rather than standards. I always consider "standard" to mean
> a classic of a particular genre that is frequently covered(such as, in jazz,
> there are loads: "'Round Midnight", "Summertime", etc. or, with rock, there's
> "Louie Louie", some late period Beatles stuff, etc.). Though "Red Clay" might
> be considered for acid jazz as well (after all, Solsonics did it) I don't know
> if it qualifies as such. Hmm....

That's what I was trying to get at. Classic jazz tunes such as, say,
"Night in Tunisia" or "Green Dolphin Street" are and have been jazz music
standards, while 60s-70s fusion/jazz/funk like "Red Clay" are considered
standards for acid jazz artists of today.

There are hundreds of other bands that cover "Red Clay," but I think the
Solsonics' version is the only (or at least the first?) reggaefied
version, if I'm not mistaken.

Elson