Acid jazz
- Acid Jazz compilation “Talkin Loud 2″ (Talkin’ Loud Records).
Music genre nurtured by London’s Talkin’ Loud label in the late ’80s (and named as an oblique reference to the dominant dance-floor form of the time, acid house). Original British proponents like Galliano and the Young Disciples married vintage jazz samples and live instrumentation with DJ-friendly hip-hop break beats. America’s acid jazz wellspring was New York’s peripatetic Giant Step club (founded 1990), where live pairings of rappers and jazz musicians inspired several hip-hop projects (notably the Brand New Heavies’ 1992 multi-rapper Heavy Rhyme Experience: Vol. 1 and 1993′s Jazzamatazz collaboration between Gang Starr leader Guru and jazz great Donald Byrd).