Acid Jazz

yes, you are the only person here who likes Acid Jazz.

Saw them live once, and the atmosphere they created was so relaxed and positive that it blew all my prejudices away.

That said, 99% of Acid Jazz is, naturally, without merit (he says, covering himself).

Mother Earth were great especially for their midget Hammond Organ player. Or at least great if you thought Paul Weller's solo stuff was great when he was doing funky, jazzy rock. As opposed to rocky, rocky rock.

JTQ were great fun live though their records were rarely as good.

AS for the rest the Totally Wired comps are usually a pretty good mix. Night Trains are pretty good, Ulf Sandberg and Beaulolais Band did some fairly pleasant straight jazz. And Double Vision stink.

Most of the revivalist types - eg. Brand New Heavies - aren't much cop, but Corduroy's Motorhead cover is funny and funky.

dont really see hwy everyones against it.

jamiroquai ae even pretty wicked. 'emergency...' and 'reteurn of the psace cowboy' are excellent.

this mix got me nodding hard

https://soundcloud.com/crackmagazine/incienso-6-cz-wang

I don't know beans about this subgenre per se, but seems like this album and others mentioned on its thread might be of related interest:
the shape of acid jazz to come: MOSES BOYD's Dark Matter
Overlapping w this, to some extent:
A catch-all thread for the current jazz scene in London, including Shabaka Hutchings, Yazz Ahmed, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Camilla George, Theon Cross, Zara McFarlane, Daniel Casimir, SEED Ensemble,
maybe most specifically related: Ezra Collective?

basically anything Gilles Peterson has had a hand in over the last 30 yrs

thanks for the CZ wang link, map

good Gilles project, like I posted on Moses Boyd thread:

Gilles Peterson Presents MV4
Taken from a day of live sessions in London’s legendary Maida Vale Studios - studio MV4 to be exact, it was originally intended just for Peterson’s BBC radio show broadcast on 20th October 2018. Struck by what a special moment the sessions captured, Peterson has decided to mark the results with a release proper on his Brownswood imprint.

A limited special double vinyl release(download also, from bandcamp & elsewhere) it features a diverse, all-star cast of some of the acts celebrated by Peterson in recent years, in a series of freewheeling and off-the-cuff recordings, several of the tracks backed by the group of Brownswood signee, Joe Armon-Jones. Featuring Dylan Jones, James Mollison, Mutale Chashi, and Marijus Aleksa as well as guest turns from Fatima, Asheber, Nubya Garcia, Hak Baker, and Oscar Jerome, plus a double track special from Bristol based collective, Ishmael Ensemble.
Think all of this is thread-relevent, esp. tracks w guest vox: right off, the strong yet never overselling lungs of Asheber on "New Day," likewise plus driving rhythm-guitar-as soloing-instrument of xpost Oscar Jerome on "Do You Really", hope and urgency of Fatima on "Only."
Then Hak Baker's phrasing combines dancehall, maybe hip-hop, improvised-seeming exchanges with the rhythm section in a way I've never heard, though I'm not from around here. That's "Thirsty Thursday," more romantic than you might think re title.
Whole thing is morning coffee for basking & grooving. JAJ Group great backing-interacting band.
Will spare you the cover "art," but here's where I listened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjo10l5gjTM

― dow, Wednesday, August 19, 2020 5:53 PM