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Jazzalicious
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2006
Electric ballroom Dancers in a documentary with a very young Giles Peterson 1980's .mp4
Some footage from a docomentary, charting the Jazz scene and it's connection with the young. Very early IDJ (Jazz Dancers). This was but a slice, of what was happening nationally, in the UK, as well as certain parts of Holland.
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Back in the day we might had no money but we had the music and the fun i would dance up stairs in jazz room pick up moves off jerry and idj guys .It wazz hot . Then go down stairs to catch breath with some funk with george power and a very young carl anderson peopols just having fun
Used to love that place. Went from I was 16, learn from IDJ then destroy every one on the dance floor back home. And I don't care, Marshall was the man to beat and I never saw it happen
Fantastic big shout to JAZZ GARY...and all the lads and ladies and electric ballroom....the fashion alone brings back memories...Ohhhh man good ol' days.....🇬🇧🇯🇲❤️💯
Fantastic era....up the brummie
In the 90s Fridays were Goth Nights
look at them trying to breakdance fail
Obviously you were never on the scene back in the day. You are certainly not from London. London back then was very departmentalised so at the Electric Ball Room, like the Horseshoe it's predecessor , you had the Funk, Soul and Hip Hop rooms then separately the Jazz Dance rooms where the real dancing happened. Hip Hop was in the OTHER room.
This was pre- breakdance, so no...
@@FHIPrincePeter there was no hip hop room at the Electric Ballroom - it was funk and boogie downstairs, and jazz upstairs. And don't forget that the funk and boogie boys could dance to the jazz too and vice versa, it wasn't as separate as people think!!
Knuff Respect for ThoSE who!!
Can anyone suggest who I can license Jazz Dance footage from to be used in a Kickstarter photography book campaign? Preferably shot at the Electric Ballroom or Dingwalls during the 90s?
Debbie did this project ever come to fruition or still a work in progress ?
What were the years this great scene it seems were about ?
1980's. I was there upstairs at Electric Ballroom, Camden Town.
oh my god i used to go there on friday nights what memories what great days they where i remember all thoses dancers i myself was one of them the film looks so old i'm sitting here crying while writing this
Great times and memories... that's what life is for!
Hi - any idea what the name of this documentary was or who directed / produced it?
Other than tell you it was media magazine type show, that informed us on what was happening around the capital weekly, not really... The programme was called '01 For London', which was a reference to the telephone dialling code you were told by the operator way back when. This is the only other reference I could find... alturl.com/vyc45
thanks many, I need to find this
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Spotify playlist that includes the music from this video and over 300 legendary jazz-dance cuts including Airto, Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders, Baaska & Scavelli, Judy Roberts etc jazzy dance by jazzyjez.
idnt know there was this scene in Holland too ??
There was, smaller I guess. Cassie6 in Havanna, Rob Manga, Jazz bop Paradiso, some other DJ's. We were going to Southport at the time, Seymour en Levy, Gary, all living in Amsterdam those days. David came over now and then. Casper is still DJ, different places. follow him on Facebook. Marc Good vibes was living in Amsterdam too, but they all went back to the UK. A lot of French dancers came over on a regular base.
Mr Paul Bradshaw .. what up :) But before Gilles there was Paul Murphy and other Jazz DJ''s even Pete Tong :)
Interesting footage and dialogue by j491 and Holyroller TV who was part of IG Culture's "Floor Violence" jazz dancers documentary which I took part in too.... let us not forget our connectedness brothers. I remember the controversy and dialogue between IG Culture and Paul Bradshaw in 2009 over IG using Dick Jewell's Electric Ballroom "Jazz Room" footage for the "Floor Violence", as it was said that the "Jazz Room" material had never been released or used before, as Dick had not given anybody permission to do so relative to his own plans for its commercial release. Yet the video evidence here shows that his Electric Ballroom material was used during the 1990s in this Acid Jazz documentary, without Dick Jewell being credited for the footage in the original VHS Tape. Hmmm....
He had given his permission to use the footage. Indeed at the time, he was only too pleased. I think that he (Dick), should've come to an arrangement with IG, as there's still a great deal more material for IG's 'Floor Violence' documentary to be told. I believe this was only to be a taster, but to tell it right, he would need access to Dicks' material. There's
Jazzalicious Thanks for the reply Jerry (after 8 months... : ) It was said that the footage had not been used before and hadn't been released, as it was "a work in progress" and was going to be sold/released commercially. I am surprised then that Dick was not credited on the documentary. I agree that Dick should have come to an arrangement with IG, as the "Floor Violence" was a great little documentary, and so much more could have been done if both parties had got together with the collaboration of the dancers involved.
Maybe ig cultures fellow bredrins dem were the ppl that made and create the dances, trends, vibe, fashion, atmospheric ambience, swirling and hard stepping sensual sistrens on the deserved a feature of what his sweat and blood toiled for the love of this sub culture for no cost or exposure whom were the humble stars of this creation and didnt ask for a penny or a magazine, radio media tv show wld have been at leastban exception to lend a supportuve hand for the IGs of this world In my humble opinion.
Jazz Fusion still going in london Jazzcotech Shiftless Shuffle, Perry Louis.on facebook.
Was there all the way wearing those silly cut jeans and loafers. BUt out taste in music was way above every once else at the time. (snob). Proud to have been part of it all! Who remembers Jaffars Tottenham Ct Road. Jazz heads only with teh best music!!
`Spatz, on a saturday afternoon too were still alive :)
Jaffa's was the best in my opinion - The Jazz room that was.
@@FHIPrincePeter Rock city jazz room nottingham pure fire,,, early 80s.
Its a cool post.when you say certain parts of Holland, what was going on there at this time? Who was djing jazz dance back then?
Great thanks
I repeat no offence was ever intended by this post. Thanks j491
Part. 3 And there's no doubting that footage shown such as this will be used to understand and map part of the London Jazz scene. We were quite young! As this was from a TV programme, I posted in good faith, but would you be happier if I pulled this and reposted with amendments?
Part. 2 After all he had some legitimacy, as he was DJing at Electric Ballroom in Camden at the time, with Electro, soul and disco downstairs and Jazz played upstairs. In my excitement to post.., I wasn't trying to peddle misinformation. Rather I meant that this footage, in it's entirety, charted a 'slice' of what was happening then! Maybe in hindsight it was open to misinterpretation. Well spotted!
Part.1 Excerpts from Dick Jewels Electric Ballroom film footage, with interviews by Giles Peterson and Paul Bradshaw of the magazine 'Straight No Chaser'. I remember the interview, because Giles was pushing the connection between Jazz and his new 'ward' Gang Star, in his new role as A&R. In my view he was making a connection between jazz dance and Hip Hop 'then'.
You tell the trut it was a amall unique scene and now it exploded and people have moved on .. but I was eye witness :)