Jazz might be the best  cliché since patriotism. The idea of pulling a scratchy record out of a battered sleeve covered in abstract pastels and laying on a record player, releasing a long wail of saxophone while you brood and smoke and shoot heroin sounds about as cheesey and pretentious as the pledge of allegiance. But sometimes I need a little romanticism, OK a lot of romanticism. Tomorrow is Martin Luther Kings day, and it’s raining this morning in Shaw. Imagine that I finished that analogy, I have to clean my needle.

 

Everything I Have is Yours –  Sarah Vaughan
51% — Mark Sandman
Underwater — Undercover Monks
That Fossil That You Call Your Lover –The Aluminum Group
Turiya And Ramakrishna – Alice Coltrane
Flowers — Dudley Perkins/Peanut Butter Wolf
Do It Again – Herbie Mann
Lucky Cloud – White Hinterland
skiffling – Fourth way
No Time To Chill – Labtekwon
João e Maria – Chico Buarque
That Song –Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family
See Line Woman –Nina Simone [remix]
Your Motion Says – Holiday Shores
Very Small Rock – Happy Apple
What Was Your Name –Aloe Blacc
Microscopic Horses – Todd Sickafoose Group
Nautilus – Bob James
Fillings – Grenadine
Building Steam With a Grain — DJ Shadow
You Know, You Know – Mahavishnu Orchestra
Famous Redheads – Lotion
I Think I’ll Call It Morning – Gil Scott-Heron