Saturday, February 26, 2011

Quintessential Jazz

No pretense of ambience in this mix, just straight forward jazz. I came across an interesting list here... Quintessential Jazz Songs.

The Jazz 100 is a list compiled by listeners of jazz24.org & NPR Music. It's kinda fun to read some of the comments because the listeners get very passionate about the list. Much of the list is very recognizable & some of the tracks I'd never heard before, so it was great to dig in & discover music I probably should have known about for a long time.


So this mix is just a quick compilation of just a few tracks from the list, with the exception of the Paul Desmond tune(it just worked perfectly following Take 5 with Take Ten).

Even though this deviates from from the usual ambient I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

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T R A C K L I S T :

  • 00:00 Miles Davis - So What
  • 09:20 Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana(the song of the tree)
  • 13:33 Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - In a Sentmental Mood
  • 17:40 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
  • 27:44 Dave Brubeck - Take 5
  • 32:57 Paul Desmond - Take Ten
  • 36:00 Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - The Girl from Ipanema
  • 41:05 Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments
  • 49:32 Wayne Shorter - Footprints
  • 54:57 Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie
  • 01:53 end

5 comments:

Chrissy Brand said...

Very nice- I knew some of these but by no means all- thx!

KMB said...

Great selection! Appreciate the Girl from Ipanema, which is an all-time fave of mine (although my neighbors don't agree with me singing to it ;-)

Will check out your other mixes as well.

You might want to add your URL in the mp3-info so I don't have to google you ;-)

Low Light Mixes said...

Glad you guys like the mix!

Good idea on the url in mp3 info. Thanks

Erdbert said...

THX for all of your music. I´ve seen this from linked i don´t know anymore and now i listened several hours of your mixes :-)

best regards

dave said...

Tried to download it,but it's a dead link