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jazz that hit the dancefloor, swapped berets for breakbeats, and refused to apologize.
means A genre blending jazz instrumentation with funk, soul, hip-hop, and dance grooves that emerged in the late 1980s club scene.
from The popular story credits British DJ Gilles Peterson, who reportedly coined 'acid jazz' as a cheeky riff on 'acid house'—the rave sound dominating clubs at the time—half as a joke, half as a banner for the jazz-funk records he was spinning instead. 'Acid' had already attached itself to dance music via Chicago house (named, the tale goes, for its squelchy synth sound rather than the drug), and bolting it onto 'jazz' flagged this new hybrid as something built for the same sweaty dancefloors.
- name origin
- DJ Gilles Peterson coined it as a joke
- born
- London clubs, late 1980s, fueled by funk samples
- flagship band
- Jamiroquai sold millions wearing absurd hats
- sound recipe
- jazz, funk, soul, disco, hip-hop in a blender
- vinyl roots
- rediscovered dusty 70s jazz-funk to dance to
jamiroquai — british funk band formed 1992, pioneered acid jazz sound with albums like emergency on planet earth
incognito — british jazz funk group since 1979, released incognito in 1980 as one of the first acid jazz records
us3 — british-american acid jazz group, 1992 hit hand on the torch sampled blue note records