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What do I like?
Mr Axelrod, obviously..
stuff like The Ramsey Lewis Trio; Jimmy Smith; Yusef Lateef; Cannonball Adderley; all thge obvious ones, like Miles Davies, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk and so on...
I've heard one track on a mod compilation by a guy called Alan Haven, which I think is great (anyone know any more?); and then there's all the other stuff which crosses over between jazz and other genres.
In fact, I think this could have been what harmed jazz's standing. This and [spits] acid jazz - which started out as a group of like minded people with fairly good intentions and ended up as a horrible pile-up of goatee beards and roll-neck sweaters.
A lot of jazzy hip-hop went the same way eventually - I'm not a big fan of Guru's stuff, though you can't fault a lot of Gang Starr's tracks; and Stetasonic, Tribe Called Quest and that lot were OK.
(BTW; Blue Note have released a load of albums with oft-sampled jazz tunes on which are pretty good. Can't remember the titles - think it's Blue Break Beats or summat.)
It's just when you get people sampling Quincy Jones' Soul Bossa Nova, which was shit already, and rapping about "My Definition Of a Boombastic Jazz Style" that things start going wrong.
Sorry if I'm starting to sound like a ranting purist - I'm not in any way, I'm no jazz buff - in fact [cliche alert] I don't know much about jazz, but I know what I like. |
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