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Book: This is Hip

Chapter: It's Hot, it's Red Lights, it's Exciting!

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.30120

Blurb:

In the mid-Eighties a jazz dance craze swept the UK, as DJs like Gilles Peterson went looking for the original bebop and Latin sources of samples used in hip-hop. Mark Murphy tracks like Milestones quickly became dancefloor favourites, and Murphy himself became a major live attraction for this younger audience. Meanwhile he continued to record for both Muse and the Milestone label.

Chapter Contributors

  • Peter Jones (loungeposse@btinternet.com - pjones4) 'Jazz singer and journalist'