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Post by jazzhead on Apr 15, 2021 12:39:37 GMT
Anyone found any Jazz playlists on Spotify that you'd like to share? Don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I like to have Jazz on while I'm reading. Which is where Spotify comes in handy. Anyway, I've been playing this a lot. It's probably the best Jazz playlist on Spotify. Prove me wrong!  On Impulse: John Coltrane - This unbelievable playlist contains 60 tracks. Total length: 8:17:17. |
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Post by bassman on Apr 15, 2021 18:48:17 GMT
Total length: 8:17:17? - It scares me. Just like it makes me feel uneasy to think how many LPs/CDs/tapes etc. I own, and that I will never, ever be able to listen to all of them.
I am one of those who prefer not to have music on while reading, or even driving (mostly). I can't stand music in restaurants (no problem these days), or supermarkets. What I hate the most is being exposed to vocal music (lyrics) while on hold, trying to concentrate on how to put your request most effectively. Torture.
A little off topic: How many of the recordings you used to enjoy when you were 18 do you still appreciate? I can name quite a few, and I think they are the really, really good ones, the ones that have stood my own personal test of time. I now listen to them differently than I did, but I still listen without getting bored.
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Post by Doom Girl on Apr 16, 2021 0:12:21 GMT
.....A little off topic: How many of the recordings you used to enjoy when you were 18 do you still appreciate?.... ...still enjoy many that were favorites from ~ 18 (+/- ~5 yrs) Ahmad Jamal - AT THE PERSHING: BUT NOT ME, especially "Poinciana," which was probably the first jazz I ever really "listened" to, at 13 Dave Brubeck - JAZZ GOES TO COLLEGE, because Paul Desmond was my favorite sax player when I took up the alto at 15 Woody Herman and His Orchestra - EARLY AUTUMN, because the title tune was the theme song of an FM radio jazz show I listened to every day, before I had my own "record player" Ornette Coleman - FREE JAZZ - the first record album I ever bought "with my own money" - and still amazed by it 3 albums that were Christmas presents from my Mom after I started playing sax - and the beginnings of my now (very) extensive Davis and Coltrane collections: Miles Davis - AT CARNEGIE HALL John Coltrane - CRESCENT and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - THE NUTCRACKER SUITE Charles Mingus - TIJUANA MOODS, I loved the cover picture of "Ysabel" with the Wurlitzer jukebox, and also the music
John Handy - RECORDED LIVE AT THE MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL, a great, somewhat under-rated alto player trying some new things Charles Lloyd - FOREST FLOWER, very pretty, very "'60s" |
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Post by bassman on Apr 16, 2021 8:33:37 GMT
.....A little off topic: How many of the recordings you used to enjoy when you were 18 do you still appreciate?.... [ ... ] Woody Herman and His Orchestra - EARLY AUTUMN, because the title tune was the theme song of an FM radio jazz show I listened to every day, before I had my own "record player" [ ... ] Theme songs! What an inexhaustible subject. My favourite was Ellington's "Take The 'A' Train" from Willis Conover's VOA Jazz Hour, something European listeners may have come to know more intimately than US residents, to whom this daily broadcast was virtually unknown. Shortwave atmospherics notwithstanding, it was a constant source of musical information and joy. (Shortwave? Atmospherics? WTF?) |
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Post by alunsevern on Apr 16, 2021 12:17:40 GMT
I’m glad it isn’t just me who feels vaguely nauseous at the idea of limitless music. Endlessly available music — especially music over which one has no control, as bassman says, in supermarkets and public places — has always struck me as a kind of punishment.
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Post by jazzhead on Jun 12, 2021 17:38:36 GMT
I've made a playlist on Spotify of John Coltrane's compositions. It would make one hell of a box set, with an essay by Ashley Kahn of course. Anyway, the playlist contains 139 tracks (21hrs 48mins). Hopefully there are no omissions.
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Post by bassman on Jun 13, 2021 7:57:17 GMT
I've made a playlist on Spotify of John Coltrane's compositions. It would make one hell of a box set, with an essay by Ashley Kahn of course. Anyway, the playlist contains 139 tracks (21hrs 48mins). Hopefully there are no omissions. [ ... ]
Good job, Jazzhead. The order is chronological, isn't it? And you didn't fall into the trap of including "Greensleeves", as this author did: www.alle-noten.de/Blaeser/Saxophon/The-Music-of-John-Coltrane.html |
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Post by jazzhead on Jun 13, 2021 10:40:04 GMT
I've made a playlist on Spotify of John Coltrane's compositions. It would make one hell of a box set, with an essay by Ashley Kahn of course. Anyway, the playlist contains 139 tracks (21hrs 48mins). Hopefully there are no omissions. [ ... ]
Good job, Jazzhead. The order is chronological, isn't it? And you didn't fall into the trap of including "Greensleeves", as this author did: www.alle-noten.de/Blaeser/Saxophon/The-Music-of-John-Coltrane.htmlI've ordered the tracks by label/album. |
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Post by funkytonk on Jun 30, 2021 5:41:57 GMT
Hope it's not too self-promoting, but here's one I made last year. I understand the uneasiness at limitless options. I've personally never understood playlists that just dump in entire albums worth of songs. If I want to listen to an album, I don't need a playlist for that.
I program my playlists (as I used to do with mixtapes) almost as an album in itself. In other words, it has to have a logical flow; a beginning, middle, and end. If not a theme, it at least has to have a continuity of mood. And I make them short enough to be listened to, from beginning to end, in one sitting.
In this case, they also happened to (mostly) be tracks from LPs I had recently acquired, so this was a way of sharing my home listening.
Hope you enjoy.
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Post by jazzhead on Jun 30, 2021 11:05:46 GMT
Hope it's not too self-promoting, but here's one I made last year. I understand the uneasiness at limitless options. I've personally never understood playlists that just dump in entire albums worth of songs. If I want to listen to an album, I don't need a playlist for that. I program my playlists (as I used to do with mixtapes) almost as an album in itself. In other words, it has to have a logical flow; a beginning, middle, and end. If not a theme, it at least has to have a continuity of mood. And I make them short enough to be listened to, from beginning to end, in one sitting. In this case, they also happened to (mostly) be tracks from LPs I had recently acquired, so this was a way of sharing my home listening. Hope you enjoy. Nice one! Having a listen now. Track two, Alice Coltrane's Turiya and Ramakrishna, within seconds, reminded me of Paul Bley's version of, I Remember Harlem. Could just be me, but it sounds quite similar. For those that don't use Spotify: |
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