Nerd alert
Whenever I read a playlist, blog, YT comment or whatever that mentions a track I own but never ‘registered’ (maybe a b-side or album track that I simply skipped through without ‘hearing’) I make a note in my phone as a prompt to remind me to check it out in case I missed something special. So, I’ve just looked through my ‘jazz-dance’ notes for the first time in ages, and I’ve found some slower or mid-tempo numbers that apparently did get spins on the scene - presumably early in the night.
end of Nerd alert
Great version of the Marcos Valle classic, with Deodato involvement. Think this also got played on the Rare Groove scene:
I’ve owned this next album for years, but before today I don’t ever remember listening to this particular cut. Really glad I did, though!..:
A great funky Latin-jazz cut from S London:
Deodato doing a fusion-y makeover of the Glen Miller classic:
I’ve only ever played an uptempo cut (Kwanzaa) from this album, but I like this rather mellow offering from the same:
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I wouldn’t worry about the nerdiness, I’m the same. Actually I’m worse in that I am permanently trying to hone the perfect “have I got that / where can I can get it” tool. Almost there on the PC but iPhone trickier (although there is a lot of “Hey Siri add this track to my Follow Up playlist” when I’m walking the dog).
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Didn’t know the Jaipur track - very nice, must look out for that one.
As for Jimmy Smith, I can listen to him all day. I never quite figured out why Part 2 of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff was preferred to Part 1 - I like both (same for Pygmy by Billy Larkin). The track I always found worked well on dance floors was Burning Spear (because a lot of people knew it from the S.O.U.L and Soulful Strings versions that were comped). It’s in the last mix here: Rebirth of The Jazz Rooms | Ricardo Severe
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link dead. must re-do some of those links. Here’s the track on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y-pxIq3518
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Yes, i like both versions of Who’s Afraid…, but for me, it’s the percussion and the more restrained approach of Pt 2 that make it my 1st choice. They also make it a more obvious choice for ‘jazz-dance’ as opposed to the more exuberant ‘dancefloor jazz’ of Pt 1, if that makes sense?
Probably the best-known jazz-dance track on that Los Dourados album is their cover of the Esy Morales track Jungle Fantasy. In fact, the only vid of it on YT is accompanied by a collection of old photos of dancers at Dingwalls 
As an aside, i was looking at your Jazz Room playlists, and can see that we have some similar tastes. You’re the only other person i know who is familiar with Ronnie’s Groove, and anyone who plays Plimsoll Sandwich… Well… 
Incidentally, Plimsoll Sandwich has become my wife’s reference point for the more obscure records in my collection (“Oh, this is another Plimsoll Sandwich, right…?!” 
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Btw, I feel I should explain the Plimsoll Sandwich reference for anyone who is wondering what the hell I was talking about at the end of that last post…!
Plimsoll Sandwich were a UK cabaret band who released a single contract-pressed LP in the mid 1970s. It was unusually well-played and included a great selection of covers. My understanding is that they all had day jobs and families (and a couple were US airmen stationed nearby), so they were happy to continue playing local gigs rather than try to make it in the music biz. One of their tracks (a cover of Memphis Underground I think?) got comped about 20 years ago.
https://www.discogs.com/release/3709192-Plimsoll-Sandwich-For-Night-Starvation
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