FW: FW: acid jazz/fusion

Araya, Juan Carlos
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:53:42 -0500


No. I do not want to get in a "label's" discussion here. The Father of
fusion is Miles Davis. Listen to "Bitches Brew". Weather Report, and
Return to Forever, John Maclaughlin's material. Fusion. The GRP
stuff,well,might be Fusion-lite, "cool" jazz what that means. Music for
the Prozac generation.

Another Juano thought

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*I have to disagree. Headhunters, is not fusion. . .I mean, I suppose
*technically it is a fusion of styles but to me fusion is GRP shit put
*out in the 80's. To me, Headhunter's achieves something that so-called

> *acid jazz rarely does - it goes and in digs, searches for something..
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> *the way jazz does. Acid-jazz just doesn't really carry out the jazz
*aesthetic or mission.

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