Continuing with talk about jam sessions, magazines and jazz in the 40s… Dust4Eyes asked me if I’d seen the pic of the ‘DJ’ in the GJon Mili Life series. I hadn’t. I’ve just been looking at them again, and came across this one:
This isn’t actually a DJ, but someone recording the session. For a V-disc, I assume.
Neat, huh?
(NB Esquire also recorded their broadcast ‘all stars’ performances for V-discs)
More of my posts about this stuff:
pop culture, jazz and ethnicity.
jam session photography
magazines, jazz, masculinity, mess
it’s not a dj!
So he’s actually making samples of the music so he can cut it up and put some fat beats underneath it. So not only is he a dj, but he’s a hip hop dj.
So it IS a DJ!
Two turn tables and a microphone and all.
But well before the MC eclipsed the DJ as key figure in the New York hippity hop scene.