The reinvention of jazz dance

1986: Number 43 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of Jazz musicGilles Peterson recalls DJing at Dingwalls in 1986. "We were mixing up hard bop with bits of funk, bossa nova, Diana Ross, all sorts. I remember dropping an Art Blakey track and the whole room went mental."Peterson was part of a generation of crate-digging London DJs (Paul Murphy, Baz Fe Jazz, Steve Holloway, Eddie Piller) who took jazz out of the conservatoires and back on to the dancefloors. From around 1986, affor...

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