Re: Acid Jazz - any one still doing it?

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:32:56 GMT
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"Sum1" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> "JC Martin" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> > > > I once wanted to get a cd by a real funkster from the old days,
Rusty
> > > Bryant,
> > > > who had a hit in the 50's with "Night Train", and the album I found
> was
> > > > labelled "Acid Jazz" .... so I think it's just super funky jazz.....
> > >
> > > Rusty Bryant is way cool. But if he were performing today he'd be
> lumped
> > in
> > > with the smooth jazzers
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> > He'd be playing groove music, not smooth jazz.
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> > -JC
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> Doesn't matter what he'd be playing - it's how he would be >categorized.
Nope. Wrong again. Smooth jazz is contemporary instrumental R&B.
-JC