Acid jazz

Acid jazz (also known as groove jazz or more recently club jazz) is a musical genre that combines jazz influences with elements of soul music, funk, disco and also nineties english dance music, particularly repetitive beats and modal harmony. It developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as taking the boundary crossing of jazz fusion onto new ground.

Origins

The early origins of the genre relate to a 70s funk revival movement initiated in the discos of England in the mid-eighties. This revival movement was called Northern Soul. In this movement, DJs competed against each other to find the rarest grooves, mainly from forgotten 70s soul and funk.

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One of the most controversial figures in acid jazz, is DJ Gilles Peterson. He is normally credited for having invented the acid jazz name. There are various legends running of how the name Acid Jazz was created. One of the legends has to see with the acid house movement that was sounding in the late eighties in European discos, mainly in Ibiza. It is said that one of the fellow DJs of Gilles Peterson went to show him a new Acid House record that has just arrived, and when he showed the record to Gilles Peterson, he replied, "if that is Acid House, then this is Acid Jazz".

Related Topics:
DJ Gilles Peterson - Ibiza

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