From: Mark Turner (nugroove@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 05:07:32 CET
Dirk sez:
> First off my new fave magazine is Plastiks out of Belgium. It's a big phat
> dance mag (with a free CD even) that is chock full of reviews, charts and
> interviews. And it's all nu jazz, broken beat, dnb and the like. It's like
> Straight No Chaser without the obscure jazz and world music stuff. It
Ha ha, it's all in your point of reference, I guess, but the "obscure" jazz
and world music stuff you refer to is considerably more mainstream than the
latest clubby beats featured in SNC. Taking a look at recent issues,
there've been articles on: Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Elvin Jones, Susanna
Baca, Orchestra Baobab, etc. Where on the planet are those artists obscure?
;-)
But that's the major appeal of SNC, in my opinion: balancing coverage
between artists of considerable accomplishment and renown against those
upstart DJ/producers of the last 15 minutes. And that is why, of the
half-dozen or so music magazines I read regularly, SNC is the only one I
truly NEED.
But, I like Plastiks too! :-)
-- Mark Turner (DJ Rocky Rococo) nugroove@pacbell.net www.jazzadelica.com
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