Acid Jazz Records

Acid Jazz is a record label based in east London. It takes its name from acid jazz, a genre of jazz music. Alternative version states that the genre itself was named after the record label. Radio and club DJ Gilles Peterson is credited with coining the phrase Acid Jazz in the late 1980s. Gilles Peterson describes a time when he DJ'd at Dingwalls Club in Camden, north west London. He said Gilles Peterson teamed up with Eddie Piller to form the record label Acid Jazz shortly afterwards. Eddie Piller had previously managed the James Taylor Quartet, and the label's first signing was the band Galliano featuring lead singer Rob Gallagher. The first single from Acid Jazz was "Frederick Lies Still" from Galliano and was followed by albums by...