BGP Label (Ace Records) - Great Jazz Funk Reissues

Blues, Pop, Rhythm & Blues, 60s Soul, Mod/Club, 70s Soul, Funk, Soul Jazz, West Coast Jazz, Bebop/Hard Bop, Fusion, Modern Jazz, Folk, Vocal Jazz, Soundtracks, World / Americas, Acid Jazz, Disco, Latin Soul, Avant-garde

Back in the mists of time there was a UK jazz dance scene that had a serious underground presence. If you read the style press from the mid-1980s you might infer that this was the biggest pop cultural style in the country, but it was a little more underground than that. Clubs such as the Jazz Room at the Wag Club were discovering some amazing records and compilations such as Paul Murphy’s “Jazz Club” series or Gilles Peterson’s “Jazz Juice” were selling serious numbers. If Murphy was the founding father of UK jazz dance, Peterson was of the next generation to take it world-wide.

When Ace Records in the UK set up a licensing deal with Fantasy Records in Berkeley, Ca, the owners of the Riverside, Milestone, Prestige jazz catalogues, Gilles Peterson and Baz Fe Jazz were recruited to create a new label to exploit this oh so deep jazz catalogue. Despite what has been said it is no coincidence that the label’s initials were the same as Baz & Gilles but another name – Beat Goes Public – was invented to prevent the blushes and so started BGP.

http://acerecords.co.uk/bgp-label