Yes Splanky .. another "Artificially created term" indeed. I think the first time I heard it used was about 1990, most of those "Acid Jazz" acts were London based and at that time for two years or so there had been a lot of publicity given to "Acid House" music [[a rather extreme variant of "House" music which had emerged in 1988). A lot of people in Britain had little time for "Acid House" and instead listened and danced to old Soul or Jazz/Funk tunes.
My assumption has always been that sometime around 1990 some wit who was playing a rougher version of what would have otherwise been called "Jazz-Funk" or "Jazz-Fusion", when asked what type of music he was playing, came up with the term "Acid-Jazz" and it stuck.
Really what all these London based acts seemed to me to be doing was creating a new version of the "Jazz-Funk" music that had been so popular some ten or fifteen years previously. There was even a trend to do Acid-Jazzed versions of some of the less well known old Soul tunes .. for example this is Snowboy's take on an old DOROTHY MOORE L.P. track ..
Roger
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