MARSHALL ALLEN ADDED TO THE JAZZ DANCE SESSION

Free jazz saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master, Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra will join the lineup at Xanadu Roller Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Sunday, January 12 for Gilles Peterson’s Sunday Jazz Dance Session. The concert also features Kieran Hebden (Four Tet), 2025 WJF artist-in-residence Makaya McCraven, Emma-Jean Thackray, Zacche'us Paul presents “JAZZ MONEY”, Melanie Charles, and Lovie. 

The evening celebrate the Jazz Dance movement in the UK. Back in late 1980’s and early 1990’s young clubbers frequented clubs like Dingwalls, The Fez, and The Wag to hear DJs like Gilles, Patrick Forge and Colin Curtis and dance to jazz and latin inspired rhythms and sounds of Art Blakey, Sun Ra, Willis Jackson, Airto Moreira, and more. Dancers would dress in a retro 1940s bebop style and express themselves on the dance floor with phonetic moves, drops and jumps.

Promoted in Partnership with Giant Step and Brownswood Recordings