Video Club: Little Jackie - Black Barbie

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Not sure about this really but it's probably one of the more interesting things around at the mo.

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[koganbot]

This stuff is a blind spot for me, going back to Funkadelic and including Badu as well as Coppola. "Funk-based, broad-palette eccentricity," I might call it, where various styles in the funk and jazz and rock spectrum play off each other. My complaint about Funkadelic was that they were vague and cold in the center, and Little Jackie seems even more so. (But I've only heard about three cuts of theirs so far.) Everything is always putting everything else in perspective.

In contrast, people like Mariah Carey and Teena Marie are every bit as broad and eccentric, but they connect much more directly to the basic sensuousness of music. Or, at any rate, I connect more directly to the basic sensuousness of their music.