Artist: Norman Jay
Genre(s):
Jazz: Funk
Discography:
Journeys By DJ: Desert Island Mix Part 2
Year: 2003
Tracks: 17
One of England's foremost DJs of all time since his Jamaican-style Good Times Sound System debuted at London's Notting Hill Carnival in 1980, Norman Jay pioneered the sound of rare channel, house, and acid jazz during the heady days of Britain's increasing ascendency in the ball-shaped dance scene. A native of London (though he was born of first-generation West Indian parents), Jay began purchasing reggae and soul singles at an early eld and first DJed at the tender years of 8. During the early '70s, he branched out into funk as comfortably, fifty-fifty as his brother Joey reinforced a reggae sound system named the Great Tribulation in 1975. He likewise earned worthful commixture skills witnessing sets by the legendary Larry Levan at New York's Paradise Garage (patch staying with relatives) and soul weekends in Northern psyche hotspots like Wigan and Blackpool. Eventually, Joey and Norman got together, meeting their interests in DJ sets that ranged from psyche and funk to reggae and dub to discotheque, broadcast over Joey's re-christened sound system Good Times. After several age playing the Notting Hill Carnival, the brothers' sets became legendary themselves and Norman made the move into radiocommunication in 1985. With Gordon Mac, he co-founded Kiss FM, London's best-known sea robber station, and Jay's chop-chop public exposure fame helped the station decoy in other soon-to-be-famous DJs care Gilles Peterson, Danny Rampling, Trevor Nelson, Jazzie B, and Judge Jules. His have computer program, "Original Rare Groove Show," helped spawn a social movement around the chapiter, as jr. club-kids began looking for back to the good of '70s funk maestros like Roy Ayers, Fela Kuti, and Lonnie Liston Smith, among others.
During the mid-'80s, Jay hosted some of the first storage warehouse parties -- later to morph into the mouth off scene -- under the promotional do by Shake and Fingerpop. And on with Gilles Peterson, Jay was one of the most important trendsetters as rare vallecula became acidulous jazz during the late '80s and early '90s and once London's golf-club underground went mainstream during the mid-'90s, Jay assumed the role of senior solon, as apt to be constitute playing out at one of England's far-flung super-clubs as at a general day-out like the Notting Hill Carnival itself. In 2000, the dance cultists at Nuphonic Records released a compiling of Joey and Norman's top all-time tunes as Good Times with Joey and Norman Jay.
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