Playlists
Here are some recently curated playlists for a variety of different listening experiences. This provides a taste of what the platform produces. You can also go the Mix Jedi Profile on Spotify to see all available playlists.
Album Stack
Here's what's currently in the Mix Jedi album stack. These are the albums our staff are currently listening to. Feel free to listen along with us.
Shadow on the Day by Jeb Loy Nichols & Jennifer Carr (2024)
You can’t get more back-to-basics than this. Take a piano, a singer, and a love song. Musicians have been doing it for centuries, and always will. But few handle it as convincingly as singer Jeb Loy Nichols, who is joined by his longtime associate, Australian pianist Jennifer Carr.
rock | pop | singer-songwriter (TG) added Nov 03, 2024
Fifth Dimension: Greatest Hits (1969)
This album is a time capsule. Songs written by professional song writers, tasteful arrangements performed well by members of the Wrecking Crew, and perfect pop vocals in all vocal ranges. Despite the factory-produced lineage, these songs capture a time and place in the late '60s and are guaranteed to make us all feel a little better after listening to them.
pop | vocals (BL) added Oct 28, 2024
American Beauty by Grateful Dead (1970)
This is a band known for their live performances rather than their studio recordings. American Beauty is the clear standout among their studio output. Everyone in the band plays and sings; and sings well alone and together. The variety of styles and themes take you on an album-length Deadhead journey.
rock | country (BEA,BL,TM,RD) added Oct 28, 2024
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38 "Spring" - Rattle/Berlin (2014)
One of his most joyous, openhearted large-scale works, cheerful almost throughout. Written in less than a month, it was one of many pieces composed during his profound creative period following 1840 and his marriage to Clara Wieck, whom he has long-yearned for. Rattle's rendering is simply delightful.
classical (ACE) added Oct 26, 2024
Wild God by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (2024)
This stands out as a more uplifting record in Cave's catalog, with recurring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reflection. The album's tone is both "joyous" and "unchained," reflecting Cave's reconciliation with personal tragedies. He makes use of poetic storytelling - balancing grand, emotional lyricism with grounded, everyday language.
rock | singer-songwriter (BL) added Oct 24, 2024
Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix (1968)
The result is an album of interesting compositions and unequaled sonic coloring. Splitting time between sixties psychedelic epics and timeless blues jams led by one of the greatest rock guitarists ever. Further, many of the tracks on the album expand beyond the traditional sound of the power trio by featuring collaborations with a range of outside musicians playing an array of instruments.
rock (BEA) added Oct 24, 2024
Nordic Stew by Timo Lassy and Jukka Eskola (2024)
What happens when Finnish horn players Timo and Jukka get bored one day and decide to fly to Louisiana to hire a real New Orleans rhythm section? There’s no need to wonder what it sounds like, because here it is. Timo Lassy and Jukka Eskola put it all down on record in the Tremé neighborhood, and brought the tracks back to Helsinki to mix.
jazz (TG) added Oct 24, 2024
Clifford Brown And Max Roach (1954)
A collaborative effort between one of the hottest trumpet players at the time and one of the genre’s very best drummers.Their true impact resides in the collaboration. This album is not flashy, but it is maddeningly consistent, and all five players perform exceptionally well. The jazz here is buttery smooth without delving into “cool jazz” territory, the ensemble works in a wonderfully unified way.
jazz (BR,CMA,BEA) added Oct 20, 2024
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