What is "Acid Jazz"?

Bad Brains · #1 03-27-2006, 10:41 AM

I have heard the term many times. What ecatcly is it? Is it an actual style of something someone just made up to sound cool?

flatwoundfender · #2 03-27-2006, 10:49 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz

Bad Brains · #3 03-27-2006, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by flatwoundfender

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz

Well I learned something new. I always though the eary - mid 70's Herbie Hancock albums were called acid jazz. My friend gave me a copy of 42 Herbie albums and some of the stuff is crazy.

flatwoundfender · #4 03-27-2006, 11:05 AM

the stuff like headhunters/thrust was more fusion funk. I'm not sure on the specifics, I've got a Jimmy Smith album called the roots of acid jazz which has some really cool funk numbers, including him doing a version of satisfaction, but it sounds nothing like the artist on that wikipedia page.

bassjus · #5 03-27-2006, 02:49 PM

A lot of people classify Charlie Hunter as "acid-jazz." Myself, I hate the whole sub-sub-sub-sub genre thing.

SundanceChile · #6 03-27-2006, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by bassjus

A lot of people classify Charlie Hunter as "acid-jazz." Myself, I hate the whole sub-sub-sub-sub genre thing.

Within the next decade, they'll probably have something like...Nu-acid-hardcore-ska-hip hop-jazzcore.

werbo1 · #7 03-27-2006, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by FretlessFreak

Within the next decade, they'll probably have something like...Nu-acid-hardcore-ska-hip hop-jazzcore.

wait they dont have it now? I always considered acid jazz to be groovy jazz - like headhunters or the new MMW stuff ( like uninvisible). I think in reality it is more rap/techno plus jazz

SundanceChile · #8 03-27-2006, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by werbo1

wait they dont have it now? I always considered acid jazz to be groovy jazz - like headhunters or the new MMW stuff ( like uninvisible). I think in reality it is more rap/techno plus jazz

I have yet to see "punk" and "hardcore" let alone "ska" be mixed with jazz. Reggae jazz...this gives me an idea...

LMFAO, Hawthorne Heights and Fall Out Boy jamming out on Days Of Wine And Roses, that'll be the day hell freezes over!

Woodchuck · #9 03-27-2006, 05:01 PM

I give credit to Roy Ayers.

Bruce Lindfield · #10 03-28-2006, 09:15 AM

"Acid Jazz" was not a genre as such - but rather a record label, set up in London and which featured such bands as Jamiroquai and Brand New Heavies, sharing members and tours.

There was of course a "house style" to the label - but it was not meant to be taken literally as a genre - it's like saying "Motown" music ...

PS - the wikipedia article is hopelessly wrong!!