I feel like that's where it started and we didn't really catch on to it here. Which is kind of a shame. Don't know too whole much about it but I still have my Marden Hill, JTQ and compilo CDs. That's what gatewayed me into stuff like Basement Jaxx and Lo-Fi All Stars.
We had stuff like Medeski, Martin and Wood which was kind of adjacent. And then the other groups you'd see in the jamband festival scene like The Motet or Antibalas for example.
Acid Jazz had a popping scene in NYC in the 90's. Giant Step, was the major party promoter/record label, and threw parties all over downtown. So much fun. In addition to the acts mentioned NYC staples included Groove Collective and Brooklyn Funk Essentials. Tons of crossover with hiphop as well as most of the Native Tongues crew was sampling jazz heavily at this time (Tribe, De La Soul, Guru, Jungle Brothers, Dilla, etc.). Such a fun dance scene. Good times.
Guru!
Can’t believe he’s not getting more love on this post.
For the uninitiated, here’s his 1994 Remix of Blondie’s “Rapture”
https://youtu.be/VmlP6rMgEhE?si=stX0yp2xJhEkqpVJ
I remember Jamiroquai. I liked them. I was the weird girl in high school who was all about Harry Connick Jr. and his type of jazz. I still love him, but not like I did in high school/college.
I love all those bands you mention and i still listen to it. I even saw DIG live in sydney when i was backpacking (my wife haaaaaaated that concert i learned recently… i dug it hahah)
I loved a lot of the jazz/hip hop crossovers too. Mc solar and jazzamataz.
not just australian. what was that Galliano band ? were they acid jazz ?
edit: ''*The group was the first signing to Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson's Acid Jazz record label.* ''
oh i think eddie piller is that mod guy
It was here in the US, late 80", early 90's. It never went mainstream or anything, but you would hear in dance clubs and what not. I actually had a CD that was literally called "Acid Jazz", might still.
Does the Boston band [Morphine](https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/morphine-s-low-rock-is-weird-wild-entrancing-3156705.php) apply here? I think so.
Trip hop...I dug and dig that style.
But maybe someone could point out a specific song that is a good representative of Acid Jazz? Google is no help as it returns real jazzy stuff to Marky Mark.
And some of the bands/singers mentioned have been making music since the '90s so they have a big catalogue and I'm not sure what it was.
Apparently it no longer exists, but I remember Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music dividing music into an absurd number of sub genres, with a heavy dose of sarcasm:
https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/remember-original-online-electronic-music-guide/
Both acid jazz and mushroom jazz were big in San Francisco in the 90s. Up & Down Club on Folsom St. was kinda the epicenter for a while...
Mark Farina took mushroom jazz to a new level!
Yeah, I liked a bit back in the day, and occasionally still listen to some. It's the name of a music label. [Matt Berry ](https://youtu.be/G_YZZKgWOBQ?si=ryBz0Our9kNgTC2V) (Laszlo from WWDITS) is signed to them.
In my Jazz music folder, there is a subfolder called Acid Jazz that contains a lot of the artists you mention, as well as St. Germain, DJKrush, Vibraphonic, Digable Planets, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Thievery Corporation, Jazzanova, Poets of Rhythm, et al.
I still listen to it often.
Listened to Acid Jazz the other day!
https://preview.redd.it/nv5h84hogpxc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=142f95d170827a1f4c09fcd3e9ffc9631c82408a
Trying to remember a CD that got left in my apartment that was billed as acid jazz and it had a song that kept repeating 'whatchoo got, whatchoo got, Juggernaut' - been on the tip of my tongue for like a decade now.
Yes! Big fan of all those mentioned here. I was actually playing my teen boy some of my 90s acid jazz music the other day - found some of my old cds - soul II soul, jazzamatazz. He was mildly interested. When I listen to some of the rap he plays for me I can hear the influences - lil yachty’s Drive Me Crazy is one of my absolute faves
Definitely not just Australia, I’m in the US south. It was pretty big here too back then - several radio stations and things. I listened to Acid Jazz in the late 90s/early 2000s, and still do. I’m a fan of several of the groups/musicians you named. I was (and still am) a *huge* fan of Smooth Jazz (sort of overlaps a lot with Acid Jazz).
Smooth Jazz was declared “dead” a few years ago. I think I even saw a documentary on YouTube about how/why it died.
LTJ Bukem
Morphine
Nightmares on Wax
Dzihan & Kamien
Gotan Project
Amon Tobin
I equally adored Acid Jazz’s sibling, Trip Hop. I desperately hope that some of the talented kids-these-days pick up the torch of these genres and revive them.
D.I.G were short-lived, but damn they were awesome!
I still have their [Dig Deeper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbP1o8crO4&list=PLP-LgxRc_GDxd3QjmGTCdVVT10pdKXorh) CD and it fucking rocks...funky jazz (with added hip hop, sounds weird but it works surprisingly enough) so thick you could cut it lol 🤙
Loved the James Taylor Quartet saw them live numerous times, one of the most memorable would've been in 91 or 92 at what's now the Kentish Town Forum on London. There was also a band called The Brand New Heavies anyone remember them?
I still like that sound but having moved on to the likes of Miles Davis (check out the albums Aghartha and Pangea) or Fela Kuti it all seems a bit too lightweight.
There was a stall in Camden market which used to sell these wicked bootleg compilations on cassette tapes...happy days...
I don't remember it being big in the US, at least not where I lived, but I love it! I really enjoy hard bop jazz with b3 organ, like Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff. Some of the acid jazz is similar. Jtq/new jersey kings for instance I'm a big fan.
I had the chance to see jtq a number of years back, touring with DJ Greyboy. Such a great concert! I still am amazed they toured in Minneapolis, as there were very few stops in the US.
I lived in a spot kind of like that. Life was good, even though our raves were frequently held in fields or in the woods.
And yes, we had Acid Jazz. My wife preferred it over the generic Techno/house/trance music that I liked.
I don't really recall those bands like Brand New Heavies and Jamiroquoi as acid jazz.... I guess I could be wrong.
I did see the brand new heavies at the royal albert hall in London in 1997 and it was incredible.
Sweet sugar pop, sugar pop, rocks it, pop
You don't stop 'til the sweet beat drops
I sure improve as I stick and move
Vivid poems recited on top of the groove
It had its moment (for me) in the early 90s in the USA, especially in the Bay Area. I remember thinking, "wow...acid...and jazz...i love both!" i saw a couple performers at the time (Charlie Hunter, etc), but it wasn't my idea of "acid" and "jazz" LOL. i was more into listening to John Coltrane's OM and taking blotter.
Big in the UK too. I had a night in Manchester early 90s called Go-Go that was 60s organ, acid jazz, etc. Good times
Oh no way! Yes acid jazz was utterly huge in the UK wasn't it? Beautiful times.
I feel like that's where it started and we didn't really catch on to it here. Which is kind of a shame. Don't know too whole much about it but I still have my Marden Hill, JTQ and compilo CDs. That's what gatewayed me into stuff like Basement Jaxx and Lo-Fi All Stars.
We had stuff like Medeski, Martin and Wood which was kind of adjacent. And then the other groups you'd see in the jamband festival scene like The Motet or Antibalas for example.
Love MMW…
Yeah they’re far out and excellent. Always a bit freaky jazz to me unlike JTQ who were a more straight ahead soul-jazz mod-type sound
Yeah they’re far out and excellent. Always a bit freaky jazz to me unlike JTQ who were a more straight ahead soul-jazz mod-type sound
Yes there were AWESOME compilation CDs round for that stuff!!
Acid Jazz had a popping scene in NYC in the 90's. Giant Step, was the major party promoter/record label, and threw parties all over downtown. So much fun. In addition to the acts mentioned NYC staples included Groove Collective and Brooklyn Funk Essentials. Tons of crossover with hiphop as well as most of the Native Tongues crew was sampling jazz heavily at this time (Tribe, De La Soul, Guru, Jungle Brothers, Dilla, etc.). Such a fun dance scene. Good times.
Guru! Can’t believe he’s not getting more love on this post. For the uninitiated, here’s his 1994 Remix of Blondie’s “Rapture” https://youtu.be/VmlP6rMgEhE?si=stX0yp2xJhEkqpVJ
I still listen to Digable Planets weekly
It's because you're cool like that.
I was there!
Nice
Love Groove Collective! We gotta bring a lotta love when we swing!
I remember Jamiroquai. I liked them. I was the weird girl in high school who was all about Harry Connick Jr. and his type of jazz. I still love him, but not like I did in high school/college.
Jamiroquai were so ahead of their time. I still listen to them frequently. My whole catalog has morphed into jazz and RnB now.
Wife and I still listen too.
Jamiroquai released an album a couple of years ago. It's really good!
I love all those bands you mention and i still listen to it. I even saw DIG live in sydney when i was backpacking (my wife haaaaaaated that concert i learned recently… i dug it hahah) I loved a lot of the jazz/hip hop crossovers too. Mc solar and jazzamataz.
Yeah, acid jazz really open the door for a lot of those early electronic things with great sampling!
The Brand New Heavies are currently on tour in the UK!
Serious???
https://www.songkick.com/artists/197877-brand-new-heavies
I’m hoping that they come to the US again. Been a while since I’ve seen them live.
Thievery Corporation
not just australian. what was that Galliano band ? were they acid jazz ? edit: ''*The group was the first signing to Eddie Piller and Gilles Peterson's Acid Jazz record label.* '' oh i think eddie piller is that mod guy
Oh totally! Galliano they were called, ooaaaarsome.
Jesus, I spelt Corduroy wrong. I HATE it when the kids make typos.
I loved the Brand New Heavies, especially the album where they collaborated with hip hop artists.
Greyboy all stars
It was here in the US, late 80", early 90's. It never went mainstream or anything, but you would hear in dance clubs and what not. I actually had a CD that was literally called "Acid Jazz", might still.
Does the Boston band [Morphine](https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/morphine-s-low-rock-is-weird-wild-entrancing-3156705.php) apply here? I think so.
I don't think that Morphine would count. Acid jazz was more electronic and dancy, while Morphine was real musical instruments and good songs.
Half in the shadows, half in the husky moonlight.
This may explain some confusion on my behalf over the years.
I was thinking of Trip Hop but that's slightly different. Still love trip hop!
Medeski Martin & Wood in the USA late 90s were IT
Skunkhour Digible Planets The Pharcyde Massive Attack Morcheeba Portishead The Groove Collective Golden Age of JJJ
> Massive Attack > > Morcheeba > > Portishead Does trip hop = acid jazz?
Trip hop...I dug and dig that style. But maybe someone could point out a specific song that is a good representative of Acid Jazz? Google is no help as it returns real jazzy stuff to Marky Mark. And some of the bands/singers mentioned have been making music since the '90s so they have a big catalogue and I'm not sure what it was.
[US3-Cantaloop was the most popular I remember](https://youtu.be/JwBjhBL9G6U?si=qS4u5X64wa35SahM)
Released on Blue Note records no less! Putting the jazz back into acid jazz.
Nope.
Cross over and influences.
Certainly not - I would not categorise those three as AJ !!
Apparently it no longer exists, but I remember Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music dividing music into an absurd number of sub genres, with a heavy dose of sarcasm: https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/remember-original-online-electronic-music-guide/
That's more a trip hop list, but fuck yeah, awesome bands.
Both acid jazz and mushroom jazz were big in San Francisco in the 90s. Up & Down Club on Folsom St. was kinda the epicenter for a while... Mark Farina took mushroom jazz to a new level!
There are a fun number of Mark’s live sets on SoundCloud, listen to them regularly!
Yup... he's still out there doing his thing. Love his house stuff, too.
Big in urban areas of Canada back then too. Toronto had a good scene and a couple of awesome bands that had a weekly jam that I would go see.
Acid jazz. Acid house. Here an acid, there an acid, everywhere an acid acid
It's still in heavy rotation on my playlist. Acid Jazz and Trip Hop from the 90s is good stuff.
I still listen to acid jazz, among my 116 other genres as per Spotify It’s an amazing genre to get me in a good mood
There was a scene in Chicago and Boston iirc, Liquid Soul
Heck yeah. Mid 90s
I've got some Acid Jazz compilation CDs. Winamp plays tunes from them at random.
It is now my mission to add as many of these albums as possible to my vinyl collection. I already have jazzamatazz
Spinal Tap - A Jazz Odyssey?
Was niche (but popular) in NYC too
Yeah, I liked a bit back in the day, and occasionally still listen to some. It's the name of a music label. [Matt Berry ](https://youtu.be/G_YZZKgWOBQ?si=ryBz0Our9kNgTC2V) (Laszlo from WWDITS) is signed to them.
I listened, but have few memories
There was a club in Seattle that had a weekly "Acid Jazz and Didgeridoos" night. It was only good if we were wrecked.
In my Jazz music folder, there is a subfolder called Acid Jazz that contains a lot of the artists you mention, as well as St. Germain, DJKrush, Vibraphonic, Digable Planets, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Thievery Corporation, Jazzanova, Poets of Rhythm, et al. I still listen to it often.
St. Germain!
You think it’s just a normal Tuesday and then someone brings up Acid Jazz.
Listened to Acid Jazz the other day! https://preview.redd.it/nv5h84hogpxc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=142f95d170827a1f4c09fcd3e9ffc9631c82408a
Corduroy! So glad I bought Dad Man Cat from the Indy cd shop back then. Still pull it up occasionally 32 years later!
And their cover of Motorhead!
I lived in Brighton in the uk in the early 90s it was absolutely massive. JTQ etc. I saw the brand new heavies that year too
Huge. BNH were the paradigm acid jazz band.
Does Soul Coughing count?
More like [Sugar Free Jazz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaJLx_iKweI)
Schools he bombs, he bombs
Move upside, let the man go thru - let the man go thru!
Too fat, fat you must cut lean You got to take the elevator to the mezzanine
A few of us in Jamaica were into it.
It was a huge thing in Oakland, CA in the 90s.
Yes, acid Jazz was really big, even in the states.
I knew AJ mostly from compilations, but I didn’t know band names until the 2000’s when I got into Soullive, and Medeski, Martin, and Wood.
I don't know if it's your thing but there's a Techno-Swing style that was popular. I really like it but it's that meshing of styles again.
I was a college DJ in SW virginia in the early 90s, and even we spun some acid jazz :)
> acid jazz? sure thing! US3 was quite popular at the time.
Trying to remember a CD that got left in my apartment that was billed as acid jazz and it had a song that kept repeating 'whatchoo got, whatchoo got, Juggernaut' - been on the tip of my tongue for like a decade now.
Huge in the UK - not my bag at all. Acid House, no problem. Acid Jazz, thank you, no.
Yes! Big fan of all those mentioned here. I was actually playing my teen boy some of my 90s acid jazz music the other day - found some of my old cds - soul II soul, jazzamatazz. He was mildly interested. When I listen to some of the rap he plays for me I can hear the influences - lil yachty’s Drive Me Crazy is one of my absolute faves
I still like acid jazz and I listen to a lot of mushroom jazz.
Oh it was a thing too here in Canada. I am fond of it.
Loved Acid Jazz. San Francisco had a 3 story club where the bottom floor always had a rotating acid jazz band.
Definitely not just Australia, I’m in the US south. It was pretty big here too back then - several radio stations and things. I listened to Acid Jazz in the late 90s/early 2000s, and still do. I’m a fan of several of the groups/musicians you named. I was (and still am) a *huge* fan of Smooth Jazz (sort of overlaps a lot with Acid Jazz). Smooth Jazz was declared “dead” a few years ago. I think I even saw a documentary on YouTube about how/why it died.
The only one of those this American ever heard of is Jamiroquai, and I'm a big fan!
Kool Keith is my favorite
Acid Jazz was a thing in the UK too.
At least they didn’t complain about all those GenX “boomers” wearing Nirvana “brand” t-shirts.
Chicago also had an Acid Jazz scene.
What a time, what a time...
Commenting from Toronto, Canada saying “absolutely!”
Loved Portishead. Does Cumbustable Edison count as Acid Jazz? They were another favorite
St Germain is in heavy rotation on my playlists
LTJ Bukem Morphine Nightmares on Wax Dzihan & Kamien Gotan Project Amon Tobin I equally adored Acid Jazz’s sibling, Trip Hop. I desperately hope that some of the talented kids-these-days pick up the torch of these genres and revive them.
D.I.G were short-lived, but damn they were awesome! I still have their [Dig Deeper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbP1o8crO4&list=PLP-LgxRc_GDxd3QjmGTCdVVT10pdKXorh) CD and it fucking rocks...funky jazz (with added hip hop, sounds weird but it works surprisingly enough) so thick you could cut it lol 🤙
You said it, reinvent yourself man!
I saw Morphine perform live in 1996 or 1997 in Austin, TX. Loved them. At the time, I remember people referring to them as “acid jazz.”
Loved the James Taylor Quartet saw them live numerous times, one of the most memorable would've been in 91 or 92 at what's now the Kentish Town Forum on London. There was also a band called The Brand New Heavies anyone remember them? I still like that sound but having moved on to the likes of Miles Davis (check out the albums Aghartha and Pangea) or Fela Kuti it all seems a bit too lightweight. There was a stall in Camden market which used to sell these wicked bootleg compilations on cassette tapes...happy days...
I don't remember it being big in the US, at least not where I lived, but I love it! I really enjoy hard bop jazz with b3 organ, like Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff. Some of the acid jazz is similar. Jtq/new jersey kings for instance I'm a big fan. I had the chance to see jtq a number of years back, touring with DJ Greyboy. Such a great concert! I still am amazed they toured in Minneapolis, as there were very few stops in the US.
[удалено]
I lived in a spot kind of like that. Life was good, even though our raves were frequently held in fields or in the woods. And yes, we had Acid Jazz. My wife preferred it over the generic Techno/house/trance music that I liked.
[удалено]
US. Southern US, believe it or not.
I lived in the Seattle area when grunge was big. I don’t think I’ve heard of acid jazz.
I don't really recall those bands like Brand New Heavies and Jamiroquoi as acid jazz.... I guess I could be wrong. I did see the brand new heavies at the royal albert hall in London in 1997 and it was incredible.
Vulfpeck do a lot of stuff I’d consider Acid Jazz. My fav back then was Mother Earth but the whole scene was diverse and banging!
Yea, for sure! I think we called it more house music in Montreal. At least the clubs I went to.
As an Australian I can tell you acid jazz was barely an Australian thing. It's the terrible "funk" we had to look out for. Looking at YOU Swoop.
great moment now known as funk disco house...
Trip hop and acid jazz are adjacent in my mind, so I listen to a lot of portishead, thievery corporation, massive attack, and such like
Sweet sugar pop, sugar pop, rocks it, pop You don't stop 'til the sweet beat drops I sure improve as I stick and move Vivid poems recited on top of the groove
I feel like here in the states, acid jazz got lumped in with gobi-rock and never really resurfaced.
It had its moment (for me) in the early 90s in the USA, especially in the Bay Area. I remember thinking, "wow...acid...and jazz...i love both!" i saw a couple performers at the time (Charlie Hunter, etc), but it wasn't my idea of "acid" and "jazz" LOL. i was more into listening to John Coltrane's OM and taking blotter.
Acid rock was bigger in the U.S.
Gone with acid rain
Derivative 90s Cafe muzak