"Blues March" is a composition by Benny Golson.
It was first recorded for Blue Mitchell's Riverside album Big 6 on July 2 and 3, 1958,[1][2] and has become a jazz standard.
[3] It was influenced by New Orleans marching bands, and "starts in long meter form and transforms back into regular time.
"[4] Its straightforward harmony and separate sections make it ideal for improvisation.
[4] In the view of Leonard Feather, "the theme, with its slight bugle-call orientation, has a period quality that ties the work together".