Jazz Articles about Toshio Matsuura Group

Toshio Matsuura Group: Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From The Floor

by Chris May
March 28, 2018

Loveplaydance is the latest chapter in a collaboration which started over 25 years ago between Tokyo DJ Toshio Matsuura and London DJ Gilles Peterson. At the time, Matsuura was a member of the mutant jazz and funk collective United Future Organization (U.F.O), and Peterson was running the post-acid jazz Talkin' Loud label, whose name was derived from his influential 1980s club sessions Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Somethin.' Though in different planetary systems far, far away in a far, far less ...