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Radio and club DJ Gilles Peterson and Chris Bangs are generally credited with coining the phrase Acid Jazz in the late 1980s.
Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance/pop music: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are often credited as forerunners of acid jazz. Acid jazz has also experienced minor influences from soul music, house music and disco.
While acid jazz often contains various types of electronic composition (sometimes including sampling or live DJ cutting and scratching), it is just as likely to be played live by musicians, who often showcase jazz interpretation as part of their performance. The compositions of groups such as Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies and Incognito often feature chord structures usually associated with jazz music. The Heavies in particular were known in their early years for beginning their songs as catchy pop and rapidly steering them into jazz territory before "resolving" the composition and thus not losing any pop listeners but successfully "exposing" them to jazz elements in "baby steps".
The acid jazz "movement" is also seen as a "revival" of jazz-funk or jazz fusion or soul jazz by leading DJ's such as Norman Jay or Gilles Peterson or Patrick Forge, also known as "rare groove crate diggers" or "Cataroos".
The sound and clubs that went with it arose out of Southern england's rare groove scene of the late seventies and early eighties and various other alternative groups, including the London mod scene. It is distinguished from the Northern Soul scene (then popular in the South of England with clubs such as the 100 Club in Oxford street) but still portrayed various similarities.
The name 'acid jazz' came into common parlance with the Acid Jazz label but in reality the scene had existed in disparate forms and without a distinguishing name for some time beforehand. Journalists at the time appeared very confused by the genre and made various attempts to connect it to the London mod scene (by links with various former members of that scene, prominently Eddie Pillar and the James Taylor Quartet — Taylor having formerly been Hammond Player for sixties garage band The Prisoners). Infamously, ID magazine ran an article on Acid Jazz Mods which irritated both mods and "acid jazz fans" in equal amounts.
The scene always had two halves, those who liked the original jazz and soul recordings and those who followed the new bands signed by labels like Acid Jazz. It is the former who still probably support their music, many of the early bands having fallen well by the wayside. Attempts to integrate the music with hip hop and jungle are now regarded by many as misguided attempts to keep the music fresh whilst leading it a long way from its starting point, attempts that were regarded with disdain by many.
An important gauge of the UK scene and the creation of the genre are to be found in the UK's Straight no Chaser. Similarly, clothing labels like Duffer of St George were closely associated with the scene, although the "right outfit" was never essential.
Disc jockeys Gilles Peterson and Chris Bang are generally credited with coining the term acid jazz at a 1987 'Talkin' Loud Sayin Something' session. At the time, this was Peterson's regular Sunday afternoon club at Dingwalls in Camden, London
In his Radio 1 biography, Peterson describes how the term acid jazz came about. "We put on this old 7-inch by Mickey and the Soul Generation which was a rare groove record with a mad rock guitar intro and no beat. I started vary speeding it so it sounded all warped. Chris Bangs got on the microphone and said, 'If that was acid house, this is acid jazz'. That's how acid jazz started, just a joke!"
Notable British acid jazz bands of the 1990s included Brand New Heavies, Incognito, James Taylor Quartet, Jamiroquai (also classified as funk and disco) and US3 (also classified as jazz rap), as well as dozens of less commercially successful artists. Later, Repercussions who had a top hit, Promise me nothing. According to the book The Techno Primer, the 1993 album Road to Freedom by Young Disciples was "very influential" in the genre, as the band "set the tone for this movement." Other more recent groups who have produced music in this genre include Mother Earth and Down to the Bone.
Few record labels have specialised in acid jazz; some include "Acid jazz records", "Ninja tune", and "Mo'wax".
The above was taken or paraphrased from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz
To therefore forward the genre and maintain a fresh feel for it, it is essential that i continue to fuse different styles and revive as many grooves from different decades as i can, for example, when acid jazz and rare groove first became recognised they relied on reviving 70's funk and soul tracks and building upon them, so if i could possibly revive more recent tracks, such as from the 90's and 00's then it may be possible to further the genre and keep new audiences interested as it would feature groove's and beats which they were familiar with and had grown up with, and i think this feeling of nostalgia would be a selling point for my music.
The above was taken or paraphrased from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz
To therefore forward the genre and maintain a fresh feel for it, it is essential that i continue to fuse different styles and revive as many grooves from different decades as i can, for example, when acid jazz and rare groove first became recognised they relied on reviving 70's funk and soul tracks and building upon them, so if i could possibly revive more recent tracks, such as from the 90's and 00's then it may be possible to further the genre and keep new audiences interested as it would feature groove's and beats which they were familiar with and had grown up with, and i think this feeling of nostalgia would be a selling point for my music.
