Jazz Articles about Leeroy

Leeroy: Fela Is The Future

by Chris May
March 11, 2018

Giving DJs license to reassemble recordings made by the auteurs of an earlier generation is a risky business. The remix of Miles Davis's “In A Silent Way" on Sony's 1999 album Panthalassa: The Remixes, for instance, moved one of the authors of the Penguin Guide To Jazz Recordings to write: “DJ Cam should be horsewhipped." Which would have been letting him off lightly. But fear not. Parisian DJ and remixer Leeroy's take on Afrobeat originator Fela ...