Acid Jazz: A cocktail of looped beats vibing jazz-funk with electronic dance
Birth place: South side of the UK
Birthday: ’80’s & ’90’s
Musical elements: jazz, funk, hip-hop, soul, house and disco baby
Why: What started off as jazz fusion in the 1960’s – a blend of the spontaneity of jazz shaken (not stirred) with the rhythm of blues and the electronic grooves of rock – later fused into its birth child named Acid.
Impact: Eventually gave birth to its off-spring: nu jazz, nu-funk and trip hop.
Jazz Funk Fathers:
Roy Ayers
Donald Byrd
Grant Green
Us3
Next generation progeny:
Brand New Heavies
Brooklyn Funk Essentials
DJ Krush
Gota
Groove Collective
Incognito
Jamiroquai
Los Amigos Invisibles
Monday Michiru
Moscow Grooves Institute
Skalpel
United Future Organization
There’s lots to choose from this week. You’re only task is to open your mind to the different interpretations of the many adaptations of the best in instrumental improvisation.
1958 | Skalpel
All I Need | Re:Jazz feat. Lisa Bassenge
Almost | The Rongetz Foundation
At Last | Megashira
Batucada | Bebel Gilberto
Big Noise (From Winnetka) | Kyle Eastwood
Breaking Away (Koop Remix) | Shaun Escoffery
Can You Live | Meitz
Cantaloop Island | DJ Cam feat. Tassel & Naturel
Chok-A-Block Avenue | Barrio Jazz Gang
Chronik Break | Beat Assailant feat. Tash
Coffee Talk (Yukihiro Fukutomi Remix) | Jazzanova
Conchita’s Cabine | Briskey
The Creator has a Master Plan | Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Cut the Jazz | De-Phazz
Deep In It | St Germain
Dreamer | S-Tone Inc
Drifting (Swing Mix) | Metropolitan Jazz Affair
Epiphany | Monday Michiru
Escapism | Metropolitan Jazz Affair
European Comfort | Gota
Feeling Good | The Mighty Bop
Feeling Good | The Quantic Soul Orchestra feat. Alice Russel
Flat Foot | The Horne Singers
A Fool Like Me | Jmdee-Beat feat. Tassel & Naturel
Forgetting to Remember (Nostalgia 77 Mix) | Kinny & Horne
Forgotten Places | Alif Tree
G.U.B.N.U.F. | Bugge Wesseltoft
Forgotten Travelers | Groove Collective
Get a Move On | Mr. Scruff
Get Out | Us3
The Gods of the Yoruba (Belem) | Gerardo Frisina
Good & Bad | Povo feat. Ed Thigpen
Half Pint | Projections
Here | Jeanette Lindstrom
I See A Different You | Koop
In the Still of the Night | Stacey Kent
Inna City Woman (Varano Remix) | Slow Train
Jazzion | South Froggies feat. Allan
Keep You Kimi | Hird
Late Nite Swing | David Borsu feat. Damia Da Costa
Les Chrysanthemes | Moscow Grooves Institute feat. Olga Noel
Let Yourself Go – Puttin’ On The Ritz | Sonia Cat-Berro
Million Ways | Povo feat. Trine Lise Vaering
Mista Swing | Jazztronik feat. Monday Michiru
The Novel Sound | Llorca
Ocean Games | Funk 4 Sale
Ocre | Benjamin Devigne
On Est Ensemble Sans Se Parler | United Future Organization
On the Dub-ble | DJ Krush
Open the Door | Elsa Hedberg
Oriental Smile | Paolo Fedreghini & Marco Bianchi
Roughneck | Eddie Roberts
Round Midnight | Duran Y Garcia
Sandy | Jumbonics
Sculpture | Skalpel
Sexy | Los Amigos Invisibles
Step Aside | Incognito
Stiff Jazz | Dzihan & Kamien
Struck on Jazz | Doctor Abstract
Sweet is the Air | Alice Russel feat. Natureboy
Take Me Higher | Fertile Ground
Tennessee Waltz | Norah Jones & Joel Harrison
White Knuckle Ride | Jamiroquai (a teaser from the artist’s new album ‘Rock Dust Light Star’ coming out in November 2010)
And remember children, if you have something to add, be generous, for that which you give comes back to you in ten-fold.
Well now, seems we’re nearing the close of our journey together my pretties. Only one more genre to touch on before DJ Kiddles leaves the room. For next week, I’ve chosen something very special for you. I’m gonna tickle the funky right out of your monkey 
