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Date: Monday, 26-Feb-96 10:02 AM
From: Simon Everest \ Internet: (s.everest@plymouth.ac.uk)
To: acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU \ Internet: (acid-jazz@ucsd.edu)
Subject: Re: the origins of acid jazz
Good Morning, everybody!
>Just a few alterations to the current discussion. Giles Peterson's club
was at Dingwalls, but was called >'Talkin Loud, saying something', hence
the name of his record label...
Right, Digwalls was a VERY old (I worked with some old women that used to go
to dances there during WW2), dancehall type club with a fat sound system (I
think it was usually Joey Jay's Good Time Sound from the night before).
Talkin' Loud was a sunday afternoon joint with live bands like Snowboy & a
very raw BNH (before their first L.P. came out and with their original
lineup- before they were raped by Delicious), vege food and lots of cool
jazz dancers who just loved to jump to those wild latin tracks, then during
a quiet spell you could go check out Soul Jazz records which used to be
above Dingwalls... that was until they pulled the whole building down to
build something almost the same but not quite as cool and without the
character... (mind you, I did see Gary Bartz there in it's new guise a few
years back). Most of the photos on the early Totally Wired compilations were
taken during these sunday afternoon sessions.
The Talkin' Loud club then went on to bigger (not better) things; saturday
nights at The Fridge, a much bigger club with a fatter system. They'd
usually have live bands there too. This was about the time the scene went
way overground with Patrick Forge and Giles Peterson running around in white
tunics, skunked out their headz. They knew they had made it to the duckets!
>Acid Jazz is the record label formed by Eddie Pillar, who with Peterson,
and I think Snowboy, (allegedly)
AJ Recs was formed by Peterson & Pillar I believe, then Giles left to do his
own thing, early '89 (namely getting Talkin' Loud Records rollin').
>coined the Acid Jazz term. Of course the music has been around forever,
saying it started fromm Rare >Groove is as redundant as saying it came from
the Mod bands of the 60's and 70's. Acid Jazz is funky >music, nothing
more, nothing less. If it's got the groove, it 's Acid Jazz. Man. ;-).
Werd...
feel it