"...Variety was always what made our scene so important and for a while
it got stuck in a rut with DJs just playing beats and keeping it in the
mix, so with DJs getting back to using the microphone and playing 'across
the board' ie. funk, Latin, Afro, and beats, it looks like we're back on
course again, which is great for me because that means more work!!
"Having been lucky enough to have played and DJed around the world, I'm
amazed at the fact that some people still think acid jazz is a type of
music (usually funk - for instance 'we're an acid jazz band' or 'we play
acid jazz'). But really it was just an in-joke amongst a few friends (Bob
Jones, Eddie Piller, Gilles Peterson, Chris Bangs and Simon Booth as well
as a few others) and ended up as the new 'blanket' name for the jazz
dance scene whether it be bop, fusion, Latin, Afro or funk.
"My music is acid jazz. It's also jazz dance or Latin jazz, but even more
correctly it's Afro Cuban jazz. I'll tell you what though, if you really
want to know, between you and me, my music is dirty, nasty, pit-bull
Latin jazz."
Snowboy and the Latin Section
"Pit-Bull Latin Jazz"
1) Go Snow, Go
2) La Cuero
3) There's Nothing
4) Havana Club
5) What the Hell's Going On
6) Mambo Tumbadora
7) Little Man (Machito)
8) The East Harlem Quickstep
9) The Sound of the Berimbau
10) Toque y Canto para Dada
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We can probably all agree upon something, but I'm not sure we'll ever
know what it is.
Bil
bdwyer@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu