Marshall Jefferson
13 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages audio, 24 July 1986
The 'Move Your Body' man on the people and clubs that beget House music, the endless Trax Records rip-offs, and a definition of House itself.
File format: mp3; file size: 38.9mb; Interview length: 42' 30"; sound quality: ***
Interview by Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages audio, 22 February 1999
The House music pioneer on the founding fathers of the music; DJs like Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles; the clubs — the Music Box, the Warehouse, the Power Plant; starting making tracks; key songs like 'I've Lost Control' and 'Move Your Body'; the Trax Records rip-offs, and Marshall's own definition of House.
File format: mp3; file size: 75.2mb, interview length: 1h 22' 08" sound quality: ****
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Chicago House: Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, Part 1
Report and Interview by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 16 August 1986
In the first of two instalments, Atlantic-hopping Frank Owen introduces DJ International, home of CHICAGO HOUSE music, the finest club beat of the moment ...
Sample and Hold: The House Sound of Chicago
Report by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, September 1986
"Sue the bastards!" WE'VE BEEN IN Chicago for two hours now, and for reasons too ridiculous to explain we are sitting in an Armenian restaurant talking ...
Report by David Toop, The Face, December 1988
When New York's Paradise Garage closed, the city lost part of its pulse, leaving only a brand of Eighties disco called Garage. In Chicago, it ...
Let's Get Spiritual – Deep House
Report by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 10 December 1988
As House approaches its third birthday, and the classical club sound of Deep House and Garage Music asserts itself on Acid-fatigued dancefloors, SIMON WITTER reports ...
Marshall Jefferson: Marshall Lore
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 18 February 1989
Over the last three years, former post office worker MARSHALL JEFFERSON's work as producer, writer and arranger, has resulted in some of the best House ...
House Music: The Blues for Dance
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1989
The new sound pumps up the volume and eyes a move from R&B underground to the pop mainstream. ...
Marshall Jefferson: Moving House
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, September 1994
I FIRST MET MARSHALL Jefferson in 1986, in his native Chicago. House was just starting to bloom there, and he was working on 'Move Your ...
Book Excerpt by Sheryl Garratt, The Face, October 1998
Chicago's Eighties club scene was the tinderbox that sparked a global dance music explosion. Sheryl Garratt remembers the time... ...
Marshall Jefferson (1999) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Frank Broughton, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1999
This is a transcript of Frank's audio interview with Marshall. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Book Review by Dave Rimmer, The Wire, November 1999
ONE NIGHT IN the summer of 1996 I went to a rave in an unfashionable district of Prague. It was in a community hall on ...
Marshall Jefferson and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Comment by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 28 May 2010
To Paul Morley's left, '80s Chicago dance DJ Marshall Jefferson. To his right, Orlando from up-and-coming producers Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Can Morley find the ...
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