Gilles Peterson (UK)
During 2006, Radio One ‘Worldwide’ DJ Gilles Peterson has consistently criss- crossed the planet, hopping from continent to continent, to play dozens of mind expanding club and festival sessions.
Fresh from spinning at the Coachella festival in Palm Springs, California in May 2006 he arrived in Brazil to play in both Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo. More importantly, he was there to present the Trocabrahma podcasts which have since introduced a new generation to the cream of Brazil’s bossa and post-bossa generation. In the old skool mix was Milton Nascimento, Roberto Menescal. Carlos Lyra, Joyce, Joao Donato, Lo Borges and Marcos Valle. From the nu-skool there was B+’s mindblowing Brasil In Time project featuring Madlib & co., Baile Funk DJs Mr Catra and DJ Marlboro and movie star and rootical sambista Seu Jorge. WORD: over 100,000 people have downloaded these podcasts.
In Japan, where he hosts a regular radio show on the influential J Wave, he recently touched down on the turntables at a dazzling Shape Of Jazz To Come. Held in a 21st century style club on the Tokyo bay, 3000 clubbers gathered to hear, amongst others, the inimitable Soil & Pimp Sessions, US horn player Joshua Redman and Detroit’s Kenny Dixon Jnr aka Moodymann.
In London town, Gilles’ two year long residency at Cargo in the thriving Shoreditch area, which featured a blinding array of global artists including Koop, Platinum Pied Pipers, J Davey, Nicole Willis, Max Cole, Jazmine Sullivan, Ed Motta and Airto Moreira came to an end in September. He celebrated his birthday at that final Independent Mix session and it was Jay Z protégé, Lupe Fiasco, fresh from sharing the stage at the Royal Albert Hall with Jay Z and Beyonce, who led the audience in a lively version of Happy Birthday.
Since the Eighties and those ‘Jazz Juice’ albums, Gilles Peterson has notched up over 50 mix CDs/compilations. Always happy to go diggin’ into his unrepentently out-of-hand record collection, Gilles delivered the marvellous ‘Impressed’ compilations of innovative and deep, swinging Sixties UK jazz in 2005. He followed that with the much publicised and televised concerts at London’s Barbican Centre and has since then raided the vaults of the universally celebrated Impulse records to conjure up yet another classic selection of music.
Fresh from spinning at the Coachella festival in Palm Springs, California in May 2006 he arrived in Brazil to play in both Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paulo. More importantly, he was there to present the Trocabrahma podcasts which have since introduced a new generation to the cream of Brazil’s bossa and post-bossa generation. In the old skool mix was Milton Nascimento, Roberto Menescal. Carlos Lyra, Joyce, Joao Donato, Lo Borges and Marcos Valle. From the nu-skool there was B+’s mindblowing Brasil In Time project featuring Madlib & co., Baile Funk DJs Mr Catra and DJ Marlboro and movie star and rootical sambista Seu Jorge. WORD: over 100,000 people have downloaded these podcasts.
In Japan, where he hosts a regular radio show on the influential J Wave, he recently touched down on the turntables at a dazzling Shape Of Jazz To Come. Held in a 21st century style club on the Tokyo bay, 3000 clubbers gathered to hear, amongst others, the inimitable Soil & Pimp Sessions, US horn player Joshua Redman and Detroit’s Kenny Dixon Jnr aka Moodymann.
In London town, Gilles’ two year long residency at Cargo in the thriving Shoreditch area, which featured a blinding array of global artists including Koop, Platinum Pied Pipers, J Davey, Nicole Willis, Max Cole, Jazmine Sullivan, Ed Motta and Airto Moreira came to an end in September. He celebrated his birthday at that final Independent Mix session and it was Jay Z protégé, Lupe Fiasco, fresh from sharing the stage at the Royal Albert Hall with Jay Z and Beyonce, who led the audience in a lively version of Happy Birthday.
Since the Eighties and those ‘Jazz Juice’ albums, Gilles Peterson has notched up over 50 mix CDs/compilations. Always happy to go diggin’ into his unrepentently out-of-hand record collection, Gilles delivered the marvellous ‘Impressed’ compilations of innovative and deep, swinging Sixties UK jazz in 2005. He followed that with the much publicised and televised concerts at London’s Barbican Centre and has since then raided the vaults of the universally celebrated Impulse records to conjure up yet another classic selection of music.