FROM JAZZ FUNK & FUSION TO ACID JAZZ:
The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Movement
by Mark ‘Snowboy’ Cotgrove
From the UK soul weekenders to the Tokyo dance jazz sessions, Mark ‘Snowboy’ Cotgrove’s forthcoming book, From Jazz To Funk to Fusion to Acid Jazz: The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Scene has already acquired a mythical status.
It’s been 10 years in the making and the wait is now over as Straight No Chaser is set to launch a brand new Chaser imprint with this hugely important book.
Straight No Chaser joins with the Authorhouse self-publishing company to ensure the book will be available globally from early April in bookstores (Borders etc) and on-line (Amazon, Straight No Chaser, Authorhouse etc). It will also be available through specialist on-line music sites: Turntable Lab, Dusty Groove, Soul Brother, Dope Jams, Boomkat etc.
With an introduction by Professor Robert Farris Thompson of Yale University – one of the world’s leading authorities on Atlantic Studies and African related Art, History, Religion and Music – this book contains the largely untold history of 25 years of Black music club culture in the UK. It features the music, the dance styles, the fashions, the barrier breaking DJs and the musicians and is illustrated throughout by rare memorabilia and photography.
This 300 page A4 size book has been lovingly designed by Swifty and provides the opportunity to those who were there to tell the story in their own words.
FROM JAZZ FUNK & FUSION TO ACID JAZZ: The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Movement is a vital cross-generational read for clubbers, dancers, black music headz and students of contemporary British culture.
Check out Snowboy's blog for more information on the book and how to obtain a copy.
Greetings to all at In Dangerous Rhythm... this is Paul Brad at Chaser Publications checking in. This is the first venture I've done since stopping the hard copy of Straight No Chaser so all assistance in getting the word out there on the book is massively appreciated. The vibe on the book is universally good and deservedly so... Snowboy invested a huge amount of time interviewing everybody (and I mean everybody!)and then editing out all the repetition... a huge job. From my point of view, this is a seriously important book... no other book has so comprehensively illuminated the evolution of the black music and clubbing in the UK over a two decade span. As with the Northern Soul scene this is a working class story... it was only when The Face infused central London clubland evolved that the scene took on different dimensions. Snowboy's book not only stakes out our rightful place in cultural history and gives credit where credit is due to both dancers and DJs but it also provides us with the basis to introduce the UK Jazz dance phenomena to a new generation... that's the challenge. Flawless meets IDJ... how funky would that be! Finally, those charts at the back of the book are well worth exploring... and then of course, there's the task of compiling a bunch of new ones based on tunes made or re-discovered since Talking Loud & Saying Something at Dingwall's closed its doors back in the Nineties.!
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