Acid Jazz is a genre that applies to an extreeeemeeely broad range of
musical styles. Each outfit sounds different from the others. Plus, the
mixes are even more so different from each other. In fact, you will come
across bands with are more inclined on the funk, some are involved with
the heavy use of traditional jazz instruments, whereas other are more on
the hip hop side. Check out the sounds of these bands: UFO, Brooklyn Funk
Essentials, Groove Collective, Brand New Heavies (earlier stuff), James
Taylor Quartet, they are all so different from each other, in terms of
sounds.
In view of this, I think, perhaps, both the stuff you heard on mix tapes
and in parties could be referred to as Acid Jazz.
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Pengo wrote:
> I've been buying records for a couple of weeks now and I'm sort of
> confused. You see, what first prompted me to start spinning Acid Jazz
> was hearing it at a number of local raves here in SF. So I hunted down
> the mix tapes of some DJs that I heard at a party. But what I've been
> hearing on CD compolations and a lot of records sounds different than
> what I've been hearing at parties. There is some overlap, but mostly the
> stuff I've been hearing outside parties sounds like it should be called
> "Hard Jazz": Lots of traditional Jazz Instraments like horns with a
> heavier beat and more strucure than straight Jazz. But what I've been
> hearing at parties has more hip-hop elements to it. I'm not talking
> about lyrics here, I mean there's more variety in general among the
> instruments used.
>
> So my question is: Are there established "sub-types" of Acid Jazz that
> are generally recongnised? Is this what I'm hearing? Is this making
> scence to anyone? Or do I need to put down the crack pipe?
>
> -=Pengo=-
>
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