MUSIC MONDAY: “Dance Jazz” (LISTEN) By goodblacknews on September 15, 2025 by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Bluesky: @marlonweststl.bsky.social Spotify: marlonwest) Happy Music Monday, you all. I hope this missive finds you smiling and well. It’s your friend and selector, Marlon West, back again with a new collection of tasty tracks to enjoy today and all week long. Not long ago I was chatting with a pal who doesn’t like jazz, because she can’t dance to it.
While of course there was and is big band jazz created for dancing. What they were talking about was the kind of grooves that lovers of R&B, Soul, and Funk enjoy so much. Being always up for a challenge I created this collection of “Dance Jazz”. It features New Orleans brass bands, remixes of jazz standards, and collaborations with jazz musicians and hip hop artists.
You’ll find genre-bending musicians like Roy Ayers, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, and Herbie Hancock. There are offerings of “Jukebox Jazz” created by Art Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Dorothy Ashby and others as a response to the more accessible and popular Rhythm and Blues of the 1960s.
Like all these GOOD BLACK NEWS collections, this one has have been fun to make. Hope you will enjoy these shimmy-inducing jazz tracks. Stay tuned for some Halloween candy-slinging next month. As always, stay safe, sane, and kind!
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