Jazz Music - Blog Posts
i need someone to share jazz music recommendations with me back and forth like yesss i wanna show u all of piero piccioni’s freak ahh album covers
Smooth Jazz Vibes: Your Soundtrack for Relaxation, Focus & Peace 🎷
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This mix leans heavily into the “chillout” and “lounge” side of jazz, offering a seamless flow that encourages relaxation and helps melt away…
Review: Whiplash (2014)
Rating: 9.8 of 10
A story about how one young ambitious jazz drummer Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller), captured the attention, and then some, of a talented but ruthless teacher Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons), Whiplash is one of the most electric and intense film about music.
Partly inspired by its writer and director's, Damien Chazelle, own experiences as a jazz drummer at school, the movie defies every stereotype one might expect from such film. Pursuit of greatness is such a prevalent theme in movies about music/dance/sports/whatever to the extent that the trope becomes boring, but Whiplash managed to find a fresh new angle to the trope with refreshing complexity. As we see Fletcher barking orders to his scared students, and as we see him encouraging a little girl to keep playing music; as we see Andrew practicing his beats over and over again through the night, and as we see him having dinner with his loving but unappreciative father, we understand them better as we see different sides of them, and we appreciate them as morally grey characters that they are. JK Simmons stole the show as Fletcher--but with every smirk, every twinkle, and every glance, Miles Teller successfully conveyed Andrew's drive, his humiliation, and his ambition through silence. He also played a convincing drum on screen (for non-drummer like me) too, which always help elevate a movie.
Whiplash is also an extremely intense movie, like you wouldn't believe. With tight shots, sweat, blood, pure determination, strive for perfection and no tolerance for anything less, watching Whiplash is like an endurance sport for your heart. TL;DR Filled with more thrill than any of recent action movies combined (okay, maybe not Mad Max: Fury Road), Whiplash is an experience like no other--and with good jazz music, too? You can't lose.
"Got so sick of crying, so just lately; When I catch myself I do a 180"...
..."As this ache in my chest, as my day is done now; The dark covers me and I cannot run now"...
..."When he comes to me, I drip for him tonight; Drowned in me, we bathe under blue light; His face in my dreams seizes my guts; He floods me with dread; Soaked in soul, he swims in my eyes by the bed; Pour myself over him, moon spilling in; And I wake up alone."
HANNAH PETLEY
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KATIE THOMPSON
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Best Jazz radio station in the world, if you ask me!
Cool Jazz is my favorite music genre, and Vince Guaraldi knows how to set a mood.
All The Things You Are by Ella Fitzgerald
Not a rock one, but her voice...