Time for us all to move on!

nigelhorrocks (nige@ihug.co.nz)
Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:01:50 +0100


The recently-published Rough guide to Jazz (published by Penguin)makes this
comment about acid jazz:
"Most of the creative musicians who have flirted with the acid-jazz market
have found it too restricting and have moved on,exactly as with other
revivals,and they have taken some of their listeners with them".

If you want to know what else it says about a-j:
"The phrase was the first jazz term to be coined by a DJ rather than a
musician.It is much more a marketing phenomenon than a coherent musical
style even more so than "trad" and as with trad, acid- jazz is very much the
commercialisation of a revival movement.Just like earlier revivals,it was
inspired initially by listening to records rather than live musicians.In
this case,the original style is that of late-60's and early 70's jazz funk
but was more jazz-orientated than the average soul record.At first,this
found a ready response among black listeners and a few white aficionadoes
and than ,after the usual 20 year gap,a new generation of aficionadoes
succeeded in promoting the music to a much wider crossover audience."