Playlists
Always fresh. Tracks supplied by curators with taste. The Mix Jedi Profile on Spotify shows all playlists as well.
Jazz Club
Recommended jazz tracks
Refreshed Jun 19, 2025
Fine Dining Soundtrack
The perfect accompaniment to a fine dining experience. Subliminally-penetrating melodies and soundscapes from classical to ambient to instrumental rock and jazz.
Refreshed Jun 19, 2025
Classical Sampler
Recommended classical tracks
Refreshed Jun 19, 2025
Singer-Songwriter
Singer-songwriter tracks of low-to-moderate intensity
Refreshed Jun 16, 2025
Recent Releases
Recommended tracks that were recently released.
Refreshed Jun 16, 2025
The Sophisticated Boomer
Songs and artists from baby boomer's formative years
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Breakup Songs
Recommended tracks featuring songs about breakups, former flames, or relationships gone wrong
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Contemplate
Contemplate while listening
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
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Mellow Boomer
Boomer-era tunes; not too intense.
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Disco-ish
Danceable tunes from the disco era that may or may not be true disco
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Album Stack
Here's the top of the Mix Jedi album stack. These are the albums recommended by our curators. Feel free to listen along with us.
Fun & Games by The Connells (1989)
This is perhaps the best all-around set of songs that The Connells have put together, and a great introduction to their music for the new listener. There's actually quite a variety and on the whole Fun & Games is just plain fun to listen to. This is a band that has gone without acclaim, and though many people have labeled them pop, they are certainly a cut above that category. There's more talent here, both in songwriting and musicianship.
rock | pop (BL) added Jun 19, 2025
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Flowers by The Rolling Stones (1967)
After a string of albums in the 1960s that showcased the bands roots and influences with a sampling of covers, Flowers is the band's first pop-rock-songwriter masterpiece, featuring the depth of Jagger-Richard songwriting. All songs are written by them with the exception of one Motown cover, and the most of the songs are classics.
rock (BL) added Jun 19, 2025
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Power To The People by Joe Henderson (1969)
This isn't one of those "topical" album titles jazz musicians slapped on instrumental works in hopes of instant relevance. Henderson had thought about what "power" is, and his originals focus on quintessential jazz manifestations of it. He suggests that an individual's power is less about brute force than elasticity.
jazz (TM) added Jun 19, 2025
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The Beatles White Album (1968)
Born in a poisonous climate, The White Album documents the painful fraying of the Beatles, the moment when the musicians retreat into their own zones to do their own things - with or without help from the others. While there's a great degree of brazen experimentation, there's also plenty of striking quintessential Beatles music, and it remains many fan's favorite Beatles album.
rock | pop (BEA,TM,BL,CL) added Jun 19, 2025
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Stand Up by Jethro Tull (1969)
A fantastically multifaceted and lighthearted album. The band toys with various styles and tries to inject the tired and true blues formula with some vitality and originality. They draw inspiration from a wide spectrum of genres, ranging from classical, to blues, folk, and even Indian music.
rock | singer-songwriter | blues (BEA) added Jun 19, 2025
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Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 - Capuçon/Haitink (2019)
There’s a chamber-music-like intimacy and introversion to the account of the Cello Concerto. Capuçon’s impetuosity and thoughtfulness are complemented by Haitink’s lifelong engagement with this music. Capuçon provides the best of both worlds, creating a profound sense of a lone figure lost in his thoughts during the first two movements, before suggesting an emotional rejuvenation in the finale. Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe follow him every inch of the way.
classical (BL,GRE,PRC) added Jun 08, 2025
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Glass Houses by Billy Joel (1980)
Billy Joel's major effort at making a real rock 'n roll album
rock | pop | singer-songwriter (BL,BEA) added Jun 07, 2025
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Madman Across The Water by Elton John (1971)
An album like Madman may contain four great songs, potentially four brilliant songs that rank among the finest in the artist's discography, but pairing them with several other tracks that sit squarely in the confines of mediocrity hurts most listener's opinion of the record, or maybe provides the counterpoint to emphasize how incredible the great songs are
rock | pop | singer-songwriter (BL) added Jun 07, 2025
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High Violet by The National (2010)
High Violet is the sound of a band taking a mandate to be a meaningful rock band seriously, and they play the part so fully that, to some, it may be off-putting. But these aren't mawkish, empty gestures; they're anxious, personal songs projected onto wide screens.
rock | pop (BL,BEA) added Jun 07, 2025
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Van Cliburn/RCA (1958)
This recording gained fame following his victory at the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958, which was designed to showcase Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, but Cliburn, an American, won over the judges and the Russian audience. This is one of the best-selling classical albums of its time, played from the heart with a spellbinding virtuosity that seems almost effortless.
classical (JJP,TL,BL) added Jun 07, 2025
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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 117 - Rubio Quartet (2002)
This quartet is definitely more optimistic than the previous quartet and was dedicated to his third wife Irina Antonovna. It features jazz-like nervousness and even quotes the William Tell Overture. The Rubio Quartet only did one recording project, which was the complete Shostakovich, and it was masterfully done.
classical (BL) added Jun 01, 2025
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Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins (1957)
A masterpiece in which the melodic exploration is equal to the harmonic analysis that was typical of hard bop. Rollins' tone is rounded, and at times, he seems to stimulate the great Max Roach rhythmically as much as he is stimulated by him. And his always formidable musical intelligence is constantly evident.
jazz (BEA) added Jun 01, 2025
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