THIS IS THE INNER SLEVE NOTE FROM 2009, THAT WAS ISSUED WITH THE 16 DIFFERENT CD’S THAT I PRODUCED, THAT WERE RECORDED LIVE FROM MY VINYL SETS AT THE AFROBA, NOW MILK. AS WE GET CLOSE TO SESSION 100 OF THE TRIP IN JULY, I HOPE TO HAVE THE CONTENTS OF THEM ALL ON MIXCLOUD. THE FIRST TWO, WHICH COVER SOME OF THE VERY VARIED GROUND THE NIGHT COVERS, WILL BE UP THERE SOON, WITH THE OTHERS, WHICH WERE “THEMED” TO FOLLOW…………
Well the time has finally come again. After playing one heck of a lot of tunes at the afroba, I have finally bowed to requests for yet more cd.s and this is one of the second batch of 8 which was recorded ”live” at the afroba. The first batch of issues 1 to 8 of which 50 each were pressed up have now gone so we move on in 2010 to issues 9 to 16, all recorded during 2009. It would have been easy to have done it at home, but I don’t do easy. Lugging tons of equipment and record cases into the afroba is how it should be-honest! I also tried my best not to pre-empt what would be on these cd’s. The trip, which was always a bit of an odd name is the only session still at the afroba.The name however relating more to rock than dance/jazz music was chosen purely to relate an ongoing journey moving up branch lines and “dot joining” as Gilles calls it. The move to a Sat. night also altered its structure (as during the week when I was involved with the program and no room for squares-now there is a name that implies a jazz base- evenings) a slightly more “party” atmosphere had to be created. However as with my virtual lifetime of playing out in clubs in the 60’s and then my mobile years some of the music is dictated by your customers. I can now play some obscure but you have to drop some tunes that are known or at least known via their later sampling. My cop out is that little of what I play comes originally from me. I pinch tunes from Gilles Peterson (Ross Allen in the old days), Waxpoetics/Radio Playlists, Tunes used in TV adverts, and topical events, the other dj’s I play with, and Bootsale finds ( I gave up charity shops years ago). My greatest joy however for which I must thank the afroba is just being allowed to get on with it without music policy or bleedin ”funky house” or “dubstep” getting in the way. Never did I think that I would be able to play five and a half hour sets of for example nothing but an entire evening of the music of Miles Davis or British jazz or Spiritual jazz etc., as I have done here and since I record all my evenings I have my own five and a half hour “mixtape” to play back in the shop and then give to the afroba to play back on other evenings. You should take a look atwww.jimz.biz for some of the older playlists in case you are not sure what you will be listening to should you visit the a-bar when I’m up and running. If you do visit on the last Sat. however you get an exclusive newsletter, that is more rambling than this, and a copy of the previous playlist in case you see any tunes you fancy and want to request them. The music “policy” where it exists is to play tunes with a tint of jazz/soul/black music and does not normally stray into indie, pop or rock except when it does! I would like to thank afro-chris, anthony, channie, andrew, veris, dean, tom, the old “I betya crew”, jack fallon and bill reid ( who started me down this dj road 45 years ago), the amazing unappreciated musicians who left us such a legacy of tunes, the vinyl industry-now over 60 years young, my kids who keep me young!, and something that I cannot put my finger on that in 1959 turned me onto this music. In the words of Curtis Mayfield ”Bite your lip and take a trip”
Thanks for reading this but most of all enjoy this cd., which for reasons of economy runs as one track-BCNU hopefully-
Jim(aka Jazzy Jim/Humphrey Pumphrey/dj Baby Boomer of the 1600 Club/The Blue Moon/Disco Express/The Wabe/Jimz Disco/Club Rude/The Program/Rare Function/No Room For Squares, to mention but a few I remember!)
