Various Artists - (PRESALE 7/3/26) Digging Your Scene: New Pop & All That Jazz 1982-1987 (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

    Digging Your Scene: New Pop & All That Jazz 1982-1987 / Various [Import]
    (United Kingdom - Import)
    Artist: Various Artists DIGGING YOUR SCENE: NEW POP & ALL THAT JAZZ 82-87 Format: CD Release Date: 7/3/2026 

    Label: Cherry Red
    Number of Discs: 4
    UPC: 5013929120983
    Genre: Vocal
    Release Date: 7/3/2026
    Product ID: CRR2912098.2

    This is an import product
    Weight: .6 lb

CD 
Description

4CD sequel to 'Heaven Sent The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983', documenting the influence of jazz and 50s/60s black American music (including retro soul) on modern pop in the UK between 1982 and 1987. Celebrating an era when jazz inspired many pop acts, from bossa beats to mainstream covers of the classics; from Latin-fuelled club favourites to torch ballads and acid jazz grooves. In 1982 a new jazz era was dawning and Soho, a hotbed since the 50s, was where the renaissance began. Blue Rondo A La Turk, who had the first 'New Jazz' hit, were led by Chris Sullivan who opened The Wag Club in Wardour Street in April 1982, a vital catalyst for the 'New Jazz' scene. Vic Godard, singer with Subway Sect, recast as a crooner, hosted his Club Left jazz-swing nights at the Wag (as well as at London's jazz capital Ronnie Scott's). Chief among the new acts were Weekend who morphed into Working Week, whose 1984 debut single 'Venceremos' felt like a clarion call. Everything But The Girl had embraced jazz influences on their debut single, a cover of Cole Porter's 'Night And Day'. Meanwhile, Mark Reilly left Blue Rondo to form Matt Bianco, a more overtly pop/jazz creation. Julien Temple's Absolute Beginners film (including Eighth Wonder and The Style Council on it's soundtrack) based on Colin MacInnes' 1959 novel took jazz to a mainstream audience. When the film was released in 1986, jazz in it's broadest sense was everywhere in British pop, from covers of jazz standards (Alison Moyet, Bronski Beat) to jazz pop hits from Swing Out Sister and The Blow Monkeys.

    Tracks

    - Disc 1 -
    1 Everything But the Girl - Night and Day
    2 Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
    3 Scritti Politti - Rock-A-Boy Blue
    4 The French Impressionists - Pick Up the Rhythm
    5 Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
    6 Blue Rondo a la Turk - the Method
    7 Weekend - Weekend Stroll
    8 Paul Haig - the Song Is You
    9 The Higsons - Run Me Down
    10 Furniture - Why Are We in Love
    11 Jah Wobble - Sunshine
    12 Malcolm McLaren - Merengue
    13 The Republic - My Spies
    14 Joboxers - Why Don't You Do Right? (Live at the Phoenix Theatre)
    15 Carmel - Bad Day (Live in the Studio)
    16 Swallow Tongue - Saari
    17 Jah Wobble / the Edge / Holger Czukay - Snake Charmer
    18 Kalima - the Smiling Hour
    19 Mari Wilson - Glamourpuss
    - Disc 2 -
    1 Matt Bianco - Matt's Mood (Extended Version)
    2 The Pale Fountains - Southbound Excursion
    3 Soft Cell - L'esqualita
    4 Everything But the Girl - Each and Every One
    5 Working Week - Venceremos - We Will Win (Jazz Dance Special 12" Version)
    6 Madness - One Better Day
    7 The Special Aka - Housebound
    8 David Sylvian - the Ink in the Well
    9 Tracie - (I Love You) When You Sleep
    10 Friends Again - Thank You for Being An Angel
    11 Pleasure Ground - Life of Jade
    12 Level 42 - Seven Days
    13 Bronski Beat - It Ain't Necessarily So
    14 A Certain Ratio - There's Only This
    15 In Embrace- Chocolates for Breakfast
    16 The Kane Gang - Giving Up
    17 The Colourfield - Castles in the Air
    - Disc 3 -
    1 Vic Godard - Holiday Hymn
    2 Alison Moyet - That Ole Devil Called Love
    3 China Crisis - Black Man Ray
    4 Virna Lindt - Whistle Wind
    5 The Sound Barrier - Mornington Crescent NW1
    6 Sting - Moon Over Bourbon Street
    7 Pressure Point - Mellow Moods
    8 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Listen to This
    9 Dislocation Dance - He's the Man
    10 Dee C. Lee - See the Day
    11 Brilliant - It's a Man's Man's Man's World (The Trans Global Mix)
    12 Fine Young Cannibals - Blue
    13 The Communards - Breadline Britain
    14 The Friday Club - Window Shopping (Extended Version)
    15 J.B.'s Allstars - Al. Arm
    16 The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene (U.S. Mix)
    17 Anthony Adverse - T-R-O-U-B-L-E
    18 The Style Council - Have You Ever Had It Blue? (Uncut Version)
    19 Makin' Time - Walk a Thin Line
    - Disc 4 -
    1 Swing Out Sister - Breakout (A New Rockin' Version)
    2 Heaven Seventeen Featuring Jimmy Ruffin - the Foolish Thing to Do (Version 1)
    3 Mondo Kané and Guest Star Georgie Fame - New York Afternoon (Extended Version)
    4 Louis Philippe - Like Nobody Do
    5 Kid Montana - Spooky
    6 Marden Hill - Curtain
    7 Rah Band - Take Some Thyme
    8 Eighth Wonder - Having It All (Extended Mix)
    9 Stan Campbell - Crawfish (Extended Version)
    10 The Florentines - Whisper Not
    11 Basia - Freeze Thaw
    12 ABC - When Smokey Sings (The Detroit Mix)
    13 The King of Luxembourg - Something for Sophia Loren
    14 The James Taylor Quartet - Alfie
    15 Stock Aitken Waterman - Roadblock
    16 Martyn Bates - the Look of Love
    17 Biting Tongues - Compressor
    18 Night Trains - Open Channel D

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Genre: JAZZ
• Format Type: 4XCD
• Released: 07/03/2026