As products of San Francisco's mid-'90s acid jazz heyday, Vinyl has both succeeded and suffered thanks to its pedigree. The six-piece ensemble enjoys huge popularity within the cadre of holdouts from that mostly forgotten era; these are the same heads who salivate over a new Charlie Hunter record and stand in line for tickets to Galactic. But Vinyl's reputation as hardcore slaves to the groove ...
Vinyl is a rather obscure group out of San Francisco who combine elements of funk, R&B, latin, reggae and jazz in their music. I've only just come to know of their existence, but my cursory listen to their All the Way Live album tells me that these folks should be better known than they are. They fit within the Jam Band genre, but their improv and sense of ensemble strikes me as being much tig...
As products of San Francisco's mid-'90s acid jazz heyday, Vinyl has both succeeded and suffered thanks to its pedigree. The six-piece ensemble enjoys huge popularity within the cadre of holdouts from that mostly forgotten era; these are the same heads who salivate over a new Charlie Hunter record and stand in line for tickets to Galactic. But Vinyl's reputation as hardcore slaves to the groove ...