jr> Yeah but there's also a lot of improvisation and solos in some tunes
there's improvisation in a lot of pop and r&b tunes...
jr> classify them in the "jazz-lite" category. Which IMHO is still more jazz
jr> than "acid-jazz" ... if we use the amount of improvisation as
jr> a basis for a tune's "jazziness".
btw "acid" used to be chicago slang for stealing. the first acid jazz was
more related to hiphop or house than it was to "jazz".
jr> to the masses, the Kenny G
and george howard and najee...
jr> sax style has defined what a soprano sax is supposed to sound like.
jr> I prefer straight serpentine soprano sax lines like Wayne Shorter used
jr> to dish 'em out
and still does (check his playing on joni mitchell's records)
jr> Branford Marsalis instrumental break on Sting's "Englishman in New
jr> York".
get hip to "buckshot le fonque", sting is dead...
jr> Ronnie Laws also used to play a lot of good soprano sax
black moon sampled a track from his record "pressure" (w/"always there"-an
incognito cover) for "who got the props"
jr> Grover Washington Jr.
another treasure chest for loops...
jr> I have some old records of the Jeff Lorber Fusion from the 80's ...
jr> very nice hip little jazz-fusion combo in the mold of what
jr> Yellowjackets is probably doing today.
wrong. yellowjackets USED to be a fusion group, now they're playing electric
jazz (think ecm w/synthesizers)
jr> Their sax player was this young guy Kenny Gorelick ... then a white guy
with an afro! I guess it was
jr> Clive Davis that told him to get rid of the afro and grow his hair, and
jr> drop the "Gorelick".
possible
... music is whatever we say it is-john cage
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