Podcast 32 - Assorted Jazz Masters Go Mellow

Christmas comes early for all my podcast listeners.  As promised, we have a distinct change of pace for this episode.  It has been too long since I have let the virtuosity of jazz masters shine through on the podcast.  That was the general drive behind this mix with the added constraint that I wanted to keep things on the mellower side.  That took a bit of effort since I have a tendency in all genres of music I listen to, if you haven't noticed, to find the most driving songs.  This leads to a lot of uptempo stuff like bluegrass or drum and bass.  That's not to say I don't like the slow stuff, quite the contrary really but it's gotta be just right.  So with that in mind, here is collection of Goldilocks tracks for your listening enjoyment.  Well and I should say, I really tried to keep it all mellow but there might be a little spark here and there.  I didn't want yall falling asleep.

Thanks for listening, merry Christmas, happy new year, and don't forget to support the artists,

Aaron

Tracklist

1. Quite Nights of Quite Stars (Corcovado) by The Oscar Peterson Trio on We Get Requests

2. Poinciana by Ahmad Jamal on Poinciana

3. Gloria's Step by Bill Evans Trio on Sunday at the Village Vanguard

4. How Insensitive by Pat Martino on Footprints

5. I Surrender Dear by Great Jazz Trio on 's Wonderful

6. Blue in Green by Miles Davis on Kind of Blue

7. Terminal 7 by Tomaz Stanko Quintet on Dark Eyes

8. Day in Done by Brad Mehldau on Day in Done

9. Smilin' Jones by Bill Frisell on Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones

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Podcast 31 - Heavy Hitters

So before I even get into talking about my lastest podcast, if you find yourself in need of a new one hour continuous trance, electro, house mix for your workout or whatever, look no further than the latest Data Transmission podcast by Thomas Gold.  It's pure hotness.  Here's the direct link to play it or you can right click and "Save link as..." to download it.  http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/podcasts/DTP197-ThomasGold-datatransmission.mp3

Okay, now to the podcast at hand.  I have really been meaning to get some more acoustic stuff into the podcast but I've just been on a heavy electronica kick recently.  For better or worse, this is the last one of these for a bit.  Some mellower jazz stuff is coming up next but I'm getting ahead of myself.  This mix is decidedly not mellow.  Quite the opposite actually.  After that house mix I didn't want anyone to think I my electronic tastes were going soft.  These tracks bring the bass and an edge that is common of this growing region between electronic dance music and hip hop.  Trip hop finds it's way into the mix too with killer Massive Attack remix that finishes out the podcast.  Enjoy.

Thanks for listening and don't forget to support the artists,

Aaron

Tracklist

1. Take Your Time by Paper Diamond on Levitate

2. Tea Leaf Dancers (Low Limit Remix) by Flying Lotus on Lazer Sword Remixes

3. 1685/Bach by Nosaj Thing on Drift

4. More Lazers by ediT on The Game is Not Over

5. Mike, Aaron, and Eddie (Boreta Remix) by Haiku D'etat

6. Get the Money by PANTyRAID on Beba

7. Beaver Blink (Ooah Remix) by Fine Cut Bodies on Beaver Blink Remixes

8. Louder (Doctor P and Flux Pavillion Remix) by DJ Fresh on Louder

9. Paradise Circus (Zeds Dead Remix) by Massive Attack

Same old directions on how to access the podcast

1. Use Itunes

-Open Itunes

- Click the “Advanced” pull down menu and select “Subscribe to a Podcast”

- Paste following URL into the box: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ActiveListener

- Click “OK” and you’re set. Downloading should begin immediately and Itunes will automatically download new episodes

2. Download the file direct

-Click the link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ActiveListener

-Find the link that says “Play Now” under the desired podcast and right click on it

-from the right click menu select “Save link as…”

-Choose location and file name and download. This needs to be done each time I release a new podcast.