The range of music that I play on this show is pretty broad. It reflects my own varied musical tastes, and until I hit upon the one rule to guide me (“beautiful, wordless music”), I had no guideposts at all.
Limits can inspire, they can help to shape things in a world of many possibilities. The themes I’m composing are further limits, partially to force me to highlight things I haven’t fit in before, partially to give structure and meaning to what could, easily enough, just be a randomly-generated playlist.
This month, I’m highlighting the jazzier side of my CAFFEEN! collection. It’s not all strictly jazz — if much of anything I play can ever be strictly genre-identified in one genre or another — but they all inspire me to think of jazz.
So here’s the first installment, simply entitled: “Jazzy I”.
- please abide by spiritual triumphs by bloemfontein from the album the longer now.
- Icicles / Bicycles by Bell Orchestre from the album As Seen Through Windows.
- Vapeur Mandarine by Maxime De La Rochefoucauld from the album Orchestraki.
- White Light Of by Do Make Say Think from the album & Yet & Yet.
- Klein Mandelbrot by Blue Man Group from the album Audio.
- So Well Remembered by Friends Of Dean Martinez from the album Random Harvest.
- Person Most Likely To Enjoy The Taste Of Human Flesh by The Samuel Jackson Five from the album Easily Misunderstood.
- One-Armed Bandit by Jaga Jazzist from the album One-Armed Bandit.
- Toccata by Emerson, Lake and Palmer from the album Brain Salad Surgery.
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