Millennium Jazz Podcast #7

Firstly I would like to say a big thanks to Millennium Jazz, The Jazz Jousters and Gadget for doing me the honour of inviting me to do this as part of their Millennium Jazz Podcast series at www.mixcloud.com/MillenniumJazz . I would also like to pay my respect to all past and present Jazz musicians and producers. I found it really hard to put this set together and made about 3 different sets before I settled on this one. I guess as I am predominantly a funk and soul dj, that started by spinning hip hop, that these elements are very strong in my track selection and in fact much of my love for jazz stemmed from hearing funky jazz, soul jazz and hip hop based on Jazz samples. I was also strongly influenced by the Acid Jazz movement in the early 90's and the Rebirth of Cool and Jazzmatazz releases in the 90's. All this led me to delve deeper into Jazz and hence my session nears the end with some of the masters, Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis before going out with a bang with the Jazz Juice track 'The Kicker', which reminds me of the Knotting Hill Carnival Jungle stages and demonstrates quite clearly how Jazz has pervaded all genres of music.