Re:All this Badu talk

Emani97@aol.com
Tue, 4 Mar 1997 09:22:37 -0500 (EST)


Thankfully the term "Alternative R & B" hasn't filtered down to Miami,
Florida, yet. But Acid-Jazz is used only to describe a hand full of DJ's
here, never to describe a major label artist like Erykah Badu ( who we all
know is definately AJ). Promoters, booking agents, and managers fear the
word Jazz when used to describe R & B artist. They run from it like the
plague. When you observe the mentality of the average listener one can
hardly blame the promotional people. I had to drop the word Jazz in the
promotion of my shows here in order to get people to show up. It's funny
because I am playing the same music, but when I use the term R & B people
rush the doors.
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