Why.Grow>Up?

The beat goes on… Yes! You are absolutely spot on. It is indeed Buddy Rich. Jazz- the music lover’s music, as it originated, still binds people together. It came about as a confluence, a merger, classic east meets west. Jazz is indeed the true world music.

A true music lover can listen to Jazz day in, day out. So do I. And here are some of the tracks that were playing on my iPhone last night:

• Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
• Frank Sinatra - Mack the knife
• Michael Buble - Sway
• Ella Fitzerald - Too darn hot, The nearness of you (with Louis Armstrong), Love for sale
• John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Moment’s notice
• Amy Winehouse - I heard love is blind
• Art Blakey - Moaning, September song
• Charlie Parker - Hot house, Moose the mooche, Relaxing at Camarillo
• Skalpel - Shivers, Sculpture
• Nina Simone - House of the rising sun
• Portico Quartet - Knee deep in the north sea, The Kon Tiki expedition
• Jaga Jazzist - Day, Low battery
• Dizzy Gillespie - A night in Tunisia, Caravan
• Morphine - I had my chance
• Sun Ra - Saturn
• Tom Waits - Step right up
• Buddy Rich - The beat goes on
• Pharoah Sanders - You’ve got to have freedom
• Parov Stelar - Crushed island
• Mahavishnu Orchestra - A lotus of Irish streams
• Modern Jazz Quartet - Autumn in New York
• Billie Holiday - Autumn in New York, Don’t explain
• The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Parallel Corners
• Donald Fagen - Walk between raindrops
• Les McCann - Compared to what (with Eddie Harris)
• Louis Armstrong - It takes two to tango
• Weather Report - Young and fine
• The Cat Empire - So many nights
• Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Eighty eight days in my veins
• Chet Baker - My buddy, But not for me
• Charlie Christian - Seven come eleven
• The Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday
• Room Eleven - Lalala love
• Fats Waller - Alligator crawl
• Jaco Pastorius - Donna Lee
• Chich Corea - Armando’s Rhumba (with Gary Burton)
• Ray Charles - Unchain my heart
• Nino Katamadze - Olei (with Insight)
• Waldeck - Jerry Weintraub
• John Zorn - Mao’s moon
• Jimmy Smith - Mellow mood (with Wes Montogomery)
• Miles Davis Quintet - It never entered my mind
• Miles Davis - Nature Boy
• Fatima Spar und die Freedom Fries - Candy shop
• Avishai Cohen - Remembering
• Wayne Shorter - Dance cadaverous
• Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
• Polar Bear - Beartown
• Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas
• Naked City - Latin quarter
• Tom White - Diamonds on my windshield
• Boz Scaggs - Miss Riddle
• Clifford Brown - I get a kick out of you (with Max Roach)
• Kari Bremnes - A lover in Berlin
• Contemporary Noise Quintet - Evil melody
• Motorpsycho - Theme de yoyo (with Jaga Jazzist)
• Nat King Cole - When I fall in love
• Richard Bona - Souwedi na wengue

Jazz relaxes one like now other music. If you think otherwise, just Google any track in the list. In spite of the gray lyrics sometimes, it will surely calm help you unwind.

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