Re: Brand new heavies live album?

Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Mon, 23 Jun 1997 23:41:01 -0800


>Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:52:26 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Jose-Miguel Yamal <jmy@owlnet.rice.edu>
>To: Patrik Jansson <info@webpro.se>
>cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Brand new heavies live album?
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>Hi, I'm a jazz pianist in Houston, and am very insterested in learning
>more about 'acid jazz', but I see all these names, and don't know where
>to start! What are some good beginning albums to check out? Thanks
>Jose-Miguel
>

I've noticed that everybody has been giving you more recent stuff, but you
should also be familiar with the stuff that started a lot of it all, namely
the jazz-fusion of the late 60s and early 70s mostly from blue note records
(http://www.bluenote.com) check out the 'blue break beats' series or the
'rare goove' compilations, also verve (http://www.verveinteractive.com/)
had some great stuff back then check out many of the 'roots of acid jazz'
comps, especially the 'talkin' verve' double CD set. 'talkin' verve' is
now a label that United Future Orginization(UFO) is not on.
Also there is the more electronic side with turntables that samples much of
the above albums. These I would reccomend those such as
massive attack(http://www.vmg.co.uk/massive/index.html),
tricky(http://www.nearlygod.com),
funki
porcini(http://www.obsolete.com/pipe/ninja/artists/funkiporcini/index.html), dj
food http://www.obsolete.com/pipe/ninja/artists/djfood/index.html,
Future Sound Of London (FSOL http://www.vmg.co.uk/fsol/index.html).
Then the more hip-hop influenced ones:
dj shadow(http://www.spy.net/~hoover/shadow.html),
dj krush(http://www.calweb.com/~mrcwdnbm/krush-script.html),
diggable planets(refutin'...). And, the french hip-hop that has a much
more acid-jazz influence such as:
mc solaar(all web rot for my links),
La Funk Mob(http://cermics.enpc.fr/~dh/yellow/funk_mob.html),
DJ Cam(http://www.sonymusic.fr/djcam),
Le Gooster,
Jimmy Jay "les cool sessions' comps the best, or Source Lab for the more
abstract french type.
This is off the top of my head, feel free to critque or if you have some
better links, certianly check out the acid jazz web
site(http://www.cmd.uu.se/AcidJazz/)

later,
erik g