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Acid Jazz Records 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 (see his BBC Radio 1 biography ). 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 Acid Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music. Its West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note. However, Art Blakey has been quoted as saying, No