244 mixes with songs by “Bill Evans Trio”

enjoy a trip back to the era where a national crisis was revived by a genre of music. Through innovation from pain and joy, these various artists express true emotion with bass and brass. relax and enjoy just a bit of this flavor.

a dark and intimate bar on some out of the way street in whatever big city you love. cigarette smoke fills the air. you share a stiff brandy with a close confidant, saying nothing, as the trio on stage play soulful brooding jazz. it's the 1920s, the 1950s or present day. it's simply a feeling.

70 songs/ THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR ALL THE LIKES AND KIND WORDS CONCERNING THE FIRST 6 MIXES IN THIS SERIES. ...KENT IN ATLANTA.

the power of 3....

60 Beautiful Jazz songs... Voices of Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington...

+ 31 tracks in Part 2

Enjoy!

In conjunction with Critical Mob's review of the latest album by the Steve Kuhn Trio, please enjoy this playlist incorporating some of the other great jazz pianists of the last five decades.

Yea you have some major studying to do but who says you can't do it with some style? Here's music by Baptiste Trotignon, David Binney, Eddie Henderson and more to help you out.

UPDATE 03.29.12: This mix has been updated to 80 tracks. That's hours and hours of stylish study music (or really classy makeout or sex music haha). Enjoy.

Relaxing jazz music to listen to after a hard week, featuring Hank Jones, Derek Smith, Frank Sinatra, and others

"The 'We'—you're supposed to stop after the 'We' and think about their validity, and of course there's no way for you to tell whether it should be said softly or not, I suppose, but I say it rather softly because I want to represent their basic uncertainty, which they don't bother to question every day, of course."

Post-bop jazz set featuring Eric Dolphy, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and more.

Even though Buttermilk Channel is all the way on the other side of Brooklyn, it's still one of my top spots to eat at in Brooklyn. Love that place. Here's to you Buttermilk.

Fifty tracks. One color.

I refuse to raise children who thinks the "music" played on the radio is what REAL MUSIC sounds like so from the moment they're in the womb, this is what they will listen to.