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November 1973, it was Thursday afternoon and I was on a plane bound for New York nursing a mega-hangover. I vaguely remember joining Phil and Frank and a couple of others at Dingwalls for a drink the night before, after working late on some band accounts in the office with my partner Chris Morrison.

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The jazz side of things was also catered for when a deal was brokered through Fantasy Records in 1985 to licence the hugely influential Contemporary label out of California. A couple of years later, Ace recruited jazz DJs Gilles Peterson and Baz Fe Jazz to launch their own jazz reissue outlet, BGP. A name was needed to christen the funky, Hammond B3-powered jazz funk and soul jazz that was proving popular in the clubs and, taking a nod from the then all-pervading acid house scene, the extremely popular Acid Jazz series was born. Twenty years on, things have gone from strength to strength on a label that, in the able hands of Dean Rudland, encompasses everything from Art Blakey to Sugar Pie De Santo from jazz to funk.