acid

[nemo7]

jazz acid

[Jazz Kat]

what?

[Soulstation1]

what different do it make and who cares who

[BFrank]

[nemo7]

.........some trip

thanks good to be there

[Jim Alfredson]

Acid Jazz is a silly name. Funny, I was talking about this with our new manager and he said, "What the heck is acid jazz?" and I said, well... it's basically soul-jazz from the 60s and 70s.

So why don't they just call it soul jazz? Because that's not hip... I guess.

So nemo, when you talk about acid jazz are you talking the old stuff or the new stuff, like the James Taylor Quartet?

[Jazz Kat]

When did he ask? I dont get this thread. Should I?

[Jim Alfredson]

If you don't get it, leave it alone.

[Jazz Kat]

If you tackle life like that you might just turn out to be one domb mutha truka, but whateva, I'm leaving this thread alone.

[Jim Alfredson]

If you tackle life like that you might just turn out to be one domb mutha truka, but whateva, I'm leaving this thread alone.

And if you keep making huge assumptions in life, then you're not going to get very far.

[Jazz Kat]

Assumptions are inevitable, finding out is the key.

[Jim Alfredson]

Assumptions are inevitable, finding out is the key.

Ah, but speaking before knowing is the sign of a fool, young grasshopper!

-_-

[Jazz Kat]

But one who mistakes a kid for a grasshoper is even a bigger fool.

[Jim Alfredson]

But one who mistakes a kid for a grasshoper is even a bigger fool.

Touche!!!!

[Jazzmoose]

Okay...I'm slowly backing out of the thread...don't be alarmed...no sudden moves guys...they could be dangerous...

[Jazz Kat]

Don't worry mouse, it's not harmful.

[Jazzmoose]

"mouse"? Before you pounce, kat, check the antlers...

[Jazz Kat]

lol

[Jazz Kat]

sorry moose, what came over me.

[Big Wheel]

Acid Jazz is a silly name.  Funny, I was talking about this with our new manager and he said, "What the heck is acid jazz?" and I said, well... it's basically soul-jazz from the 60s and 70s. 

So why don't they just call it soul jazz?  Because that's not hip... I guess. 

So nemo, when you talk about acid jazz are you talking the old stuff or the new stuff, like the James Taylor Quartet?

I'm not so sure of this. I mean, yeah, Fantasy used the words "Legends of Acid Jazz" in their marketing for a bunch of soul jazz titles. But Verve also did a "Roots of Acid Jazz" series--the music inside was regarded as the forerunner to this acid jazz thing, whatever it is. To me they both seem like they're going after a demographic of younger people who actually think of a very different style when they hear the words "acid jazz"--and that style is actually pretty distant from jazz and much closer to the funkier varieties of modern electronic dance music (I hate to call it "electronica," but the two definitely seem to have similar fan bases, based on what I've seen in record stores that cater to DJs of this kind of thing).

Edited March 20, 2005 by Big Wheel

[Jazzmoose]

I have to agree, Big Wheel. The stuff Fantasy packaged as 'acid jazz' was more the type of stuff sampled in the new music rather than the new music itself. When I think 'acid jazz', I'm more apt to think US3 rather than a sixties souljazz artist...

[Jim Alfredson]

Hmm... well... that's what it is I guess. All I know is that when asked about acid jazz, Jimmy Smith said something like, "Acid jazz is a stupid name. I didn't take no acid!"

[JSngry]

The original Acid Jazz

[Big Wheel]

Hmm... well... that's what it is I guess. All I know is that when asked about acid jazz, Jimmy Smith said something like, "Acid jazz is a stupid name. I didn't take no acid!"

This strikes me as a little bit like asking Louis Armstrong in 1945 what he thought of bebop. In 1945 probably nobody who was an established jazz player could even agree on what the hell "bebop" was.

[sidewinder]

I think the term originated in London with some of the jazz DJs who were spinning Blue Note and rare grooves. People like Gilles Peterson..