# Marshall Jefferson — Move Your Body

Marshall Jefferson’s Move Your Body (1986) appears on 4 of our lists — Chicago House, The Waxonia Desk — In the Room, The Waxonia Desk — Looped and Filtered, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, highest at No. 4 in Chicago House. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1986
- **Label:** Trax
- **On:** Chicago House, The Waxonia Desk — In the Room, The Waxonia Desk — Looped and Filtered, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Marshall Jefferson](https://waxonia.com/artist/marshall-jefferson/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/marshall-jefferson--move-your-body/

## What 4 lists say

### No. 4 in [Chicago House](https://waxonia.com/genre/chicago-house/)

Subtitled "The House Music Anthem" and entirely justified in it. Jefferson put a piano on a house record when that was heresy, and the piano house lineage runs unbroken from here.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — In the Room](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-chicago-in-the-room/)

Subtitled the house music anthem, and it earned the definite article. The piano is the argument: it opened the music to people who needed a tune to hold, and began the long business of making house respectable.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Looped and Filtered](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-chicago-looped-and-filtered/)

The piano house template, and the thing every producer who came after had to decide whether to inherit or refuse. Most of them inherited it and few of them admitted as much.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/)

Subtitled the house music anthem, and it earned the definite article. The piano that opened the genre up to everybody who was not already in the room.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Marshall%20Jefferson%20Move%20Your%20Body) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RhKMMh4qOL8)

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