Amu’s collection.įresh from London in 1986, Obi Asika recalls visiting Jatt Studio in Obalende. Whichever record reigned at the time, you might just find it in Mr. He had an eclectic taste in music for he was at home with juju and jazz, apala and fuji, rhythm and blues, disco, highlife and rock. Though his third son became a DJ by accident, it was Adedoyin who started off all of them by retailing and selling records and Sanyo products at No 17, Odo Street in Obalende. The Jimmy Jatt story is not about him alone. There is something to delight the reader or get him turning the pages. The significant and the banal are given equal space, Jimmy Jatt as a tagalong to parties his senior siblings, Tunde and Tayo, staged where he rapped and did some bit of break-dancing his infatuation with music and deejaying once he got his first headphones on his addiction to coke and bread his pranks with other struggling artistes by dodging bus fares in Molues on Lagos routes. It is a success for both the story teller and his listeners because they cover much ground. It is as though you are in a room where Jimmy Jatt is doing a solo retelling of his odyssey as a disc jockey, with timely interventions by the authors leading him from one aspect of his life to another. Instead of the conventional bio where the author(s) intelligently interpret the subject’s life and times, they let him speak direct to the reader. It is a new kind of biography Peju and Toni have resurrected in these shores. And he spins it well to the pair of Peju Akande and Toni Kan in a new book, Avant-Garde: The Cool Jimmy Jatt Story.Īnxiety As FG Takes Terrorism Financiers to Court
Now, he has proved he is equally adept at spinning his own story. And his reputation is still growing.įrom the fluffing disc jockey in a village hall to the savvy spin master in a city club, getting people to the dance floor through his inimitable and heady mixes is what Jimmy Jatt is known for. Indeed, this publication is meant to celebrate his quarter of a century as a spin master from a poky room in Obalende to a world stage he now dominates. What is the secret of his success?Īs he tells it in this charming book, hard work, consistency, focus and, above all, passion have driven Jimmy Jatt as a DJ. As far as disc jockeying in Nigeria is concerned, the brand Jimmy Jatt has become such an enormous success that you easily forget people like Stagger Lee ever existed. He has a permanent corner in some of the swankiest clubs in town. He is almost always on call in the grandest parties in Lagos. Younger and upcoming DJs look up to him for inspiration and guidance. July 04, (THEWILL) – Spinning discs on turntables is what DJ Jimmy Jatt is best known for by all who have had cause to deal or relate with him.