Music that makes your wife dance

[Gheorghe]

Yesterday I opened that thread about the Mingus album „Final Work“ with that track „It might as well be spring“which is incorrectly credited to Mingus.

@Jsngry had the good idea about a separate thread on that topic, what music makes your wife dance.

Well, my wife is not a jazz fan, my kind of music, all that Bird, Dizzy, Bud, Monk, Mingus, Ornette is not her favourite kind of music, but if it´s some track she likes, it makes her feel like dancing.

Like: Charlie Parker´s „My Little Suede Shoes“, the happy latin arrangement of „It Might Be As Well Spring“ miscredited to Mingus on that album I mentioned, or „Bye Yah“ that latin tune by Monk from 1952, „Sly Mongoose“ also on the Bird „Rockland Palace“ I recently got from her.

Once she bought me the more commercial Bud Powell album „Bud Powell in Paris“ from 1963 and danced along with the swift „How High the Moon“ or „Bud´s Bossa“.

She has that natural talent to dance, she´s tall, looks great , really like a woman that loves to dance, she also won medals at dancing contests when she was a teenager.

Of course, if we go out to dance, it´s not for the music (at least for me), just for dancing. I´m not a great dancer, but she got that talent, you know, she can move the way you might not notice the mistakes I would do, with just a discret nudge she can „direct“ me so somebody else might figure out that I´m leading.

In general, if she feels like dancing to some of the music I listen to, it got to have that swift rhythm, mostly with a latin touch, and it got to have some melody that appeals to her.