by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Bluesky: @marlonweststl.bsky.social Spotify: marlonwest)
Joyful Music Monday, you all. I hope this missive finds you smiling and nicely. It’s your good friend and selector, Marlon West, again once more with a brand new assortment of tasty tracks to take pleasure in immediately and all week lengthy.
Not way back I used to be chatting with a pal who doesn’t like jazz, as a result of she will’t dance to it. Whereas in fact there was and is large band jazz created for dancing. What they had been speaking about was the type of grooves that lovers of R&B, Soul, and Funk take pleasure in a lot.
Being all the time up for a problem I created this assortment of “Dance Jazz”.
It options New Orleans brass bands, remixes of jazz requirements, and collaborations with jazz musicians and hip hop artists.
You’ll discover genre-bending musicians like Roy Ayers, Stanley Clarke, George Duke, and Herbie Hancock.
There are choices of “Jukebox Jazz” created by Artwork Blakey, Lou Donaldson, Dorothy Ashby and others as a response to the extra accessible and standard Rhythm and Blues of the Nineteen Sixties.
Like all these GOOD BLACK NEWS collections, this one has have been enjoyable to make.
Hope you’ll take pleasure in these shimmy-inducing jazz tracks. Keep tuned for some Halloween candy-slinging subsequent month.
As all the time, keep secure, sane, and type!
