Are you aware of the impact your music has had on the UK Jazz Dance scene?

"Not at all"

"Central Park" is an anthem for the scene and is a big record in the clubs.

"You mean as a remix?"

No, no, the original track - people just go crazy to it!

"No kidding. Boy, I'd love to see that ... I had absolutely no idea, and it's a shock you telling me this."

- Intervju s Chickom Coreo na piratski radijski postaji Jazz FM, circa 1980

"Fusion spread all over the country, initially by a group of dancers from Birmingham led by Stretch and Lizard. After they saw it, it changed the dance-style forever ... After a while, you started to see small areas doing Fusion. 'It was like a virus that was spreading,' Lizard said. It caused a lot of resentment initially. The older balletic/contemporary dancers didn't like it ... but there was a whole new wave of very young (many underage) predominantly black dancers coming through in their hundreds and they wanted the music fast and rough (mainly jazz fusion) to dance their rough battling dance to. It became hard for jazz based DJs not to cater to these dancers as they were now the majority countrywide."

- Mark "Snowboy" Cotgrove, From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz: The History of the UK Jazz Dance Scene

V tokratnih DJ Grafitih vzamemo pod drobnogled pisano mnoštvo jazzovskih in z jazzom navdahnjenih godb, ki so igrale močno vlogo pri oblikovanju britanske klubske zavesti. V dotičnem obdobju (cca. 1975-1985) se je jazz že davno bil otresel prvotne povezave s plesiščem; bil je (in še vedno je) avtorski in avdiofilski. Medtem ko je nova bira črnskih godb (disco, RnB, funk, Philly soul, kasneje hip hop in house) vnesla koordinate plesišča, ki se niso kajprida premaknili vse do danes, v Anglija se je vzporedno oblikovala močna, tesno povezana skupnost DJev, zbirateljev, glasbenikov, in zlasti plesalcev, ki so uspešno uvedli in negovali jazz v klubskem prostoru. Od z discom podkrepljenega jazz funka na celodnevnih dogodkih ("all-dayers") na koncu sedemdesetih, do Paula Murphya, zbiratelja, prodajalca in DJa v klubu The Electric Ballroom, ki je trudoma izkopaval bisere trde sambe, fusiona, in drugih visokohitrostnih odvrtkov jazza ter jih oblikoval v alternativni plesnoklubski kanon, jazz je pustil svoj unikanten pečat na otoškem klubskem dogajanju.

To zgodbo je avtor Mark "Snowboy" Cotgrove, zbiratelj, glasbenik in zaprisežen ljubitelj angleškega klubskega jazza, povedal v knjigi From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz. Knjiga združuje ljubezen do jazza z neutrudnim raziskovalnim delom; poleg zgodbe o UK Jazz Dance in njegovem duhovnem nasledstvu v žanrih acid jazz in nu-jazz, postreže z več kot sto strani detajlnih intervjujev z vsemi pomembnimi in manj pomembnimi akterji, od sedemdesetih vse do danes. Skoraj ni kluba, puba, ali shrambe, ki je jazz zastavo nosil v tem ali onem delu Združenega kraljevstva, ki ne bi bil omenjen. In še največja poslastica: več kot 10 strani skrbno kompiliranih plejlistov za vse pomembnejše klube v vseh obdobjih... od Tita Puenteja pa do Gang Starra.

V oddaji bomo delili to zgodbo v besedah, njen glavni del - Paul Murphy in The Electric Ballroom - pa v glasbi.

Skromna a z ljubeznijo narejena spletna stran o UK Jazz Dance, s poudarkom na (nekoč) misterioznem vinilu "The Bottom End": http://thebottomend.co.uk.

Odličen miks Colina Curtisa, ki predstavlja "severni" jazz dance stil (se povsem ujema s plejlisti v knjigi): http://subnav.com/2009/08/15/classic-dance-jazz-mix-by-colin-curtis/