Galliano’s Place in the British Acid Jazz Movement

Galliano emerged as British club culture was reshaping how jazz could be heard and performed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, DJs, musicians and record labels drew on jazz, funk, soul and hip-hop, bringing live instrumentation into conversation with dance-floor rhythms. Galliano became one of the movement’s defining groups, combining these influences with a distinctive vocal approach and an …