Despite being incapable of doing anything more than a desultory shuffle on the dance floor nowadays, I’ve always had a thing for the niche 70s/80s Jazz Dance movement. Individual dancers and troupes like IDJ performed incredible dance routines to complex latin and funk jazz tunes, many by obscure artists on records impossible to get hold of these days without very deep pockets. I’ve spent a few days putting together a playlist based on DJ Paul Murphy’s ‘Jazzifunk’ classics from his Electric Ballroom sets in the late 70s and 80s (published in the book ‘From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz’ by Mark ‘Snowboy’ Cotgrove. There are 128 tracks on the Spotify playlist (see below) and I found a further 43 tracks on You Tube Music if anyone wants a link. Enjoy and don’t blame me if you twist something!