Everything , even though some pro-port to do so , but there are some who know a lot about a little or a little about a lot. Whichever way you cut the cake up one of those educated musical scholars without question is East London’s finest Dez Parkes. Dez’s(the leader of the pack first in linear the front of this photo line up) reputation as a dancer,DJ, record label owner, record dealer, compiler and as a designating spokesman and voice of authority, that far precedes him, to many who have never met him. From the late 1960’s and very early 1970s as a very young teenager, Dez was crafting his ‘free-flowing expression’ ethos of dancing and on occasion djing, in some of the Soho west end establishments. The Wag and Upstairs at Ronnie Scotts would see Dez and his crew cutting up rugs or kicking up dust on many a dance floor, not just in London but up and down the UK. Many of the UK’s Brit jazz-funk & soul talent from the late 1970’s Phil Fearon, Central Line, Light Of The World, Incognito
