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  1. Hi folks,

    Do you like Nu jazz?

    I created my very personal Nu Jazz Anthology by gathering tunes from these genres : Nu Jazz | Jazz House | Electronic Jazz | Electro-jazz | E-jazz | Smooth Jazz | Jazz Lounge

    Do you have something to suggest to complete this collection?

     

  2. Hi all,

    I would like to know what's for you the best "bluesy jazz"? I mean a melancholic jazz who seems like blues. Here are some songs I gathered. I'm looking for stuff like this.

    Thanks a lot for your recommandations.

     

    • Freddie Hubbard - Lonely Soul - A Soul Experiment
    • Tony Scott - Blues For Charlie Parker - Born to be Blue Jazz
    • Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Ah Um
    • Art Pepper - The Prisoner - Winter Moon (Remastered)
    • Alif Tree - I Feel Blue - French Cuisine
    • Horace Parlan - Oh So Blue - The Complete Horace Parlan Blue Note Sessions (2000 - Remaster)
    • Jackie McLean - Love And Hate - Destination...Out!
    • Stanley Clarke - Yesterday Princess - Stanley Clarke
    • Kai Winding - Laura - Suspense Themes In Jazz
    • Nicholas Payton;Dr. John;Dianne Reeves - Blues In The Night - Dear Louis
    • Studio Musicians - Blues for the Weepers - Jazz Cabaret Songs
    • Blue Mitchell - Park Avenue Petite - Blue Soul [Keepnews Collection]
    • Donald Byrd - Cristo Redentor - A New Perspective (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
    • The Viscounts - Harlem Nocturne - Single Version - Harlem Nocturne
    • Wynton Marsalis - Indelible and Nocturnal - Standard Time Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling
    • Miles Davis - Blue in Green - Kind Of Blue (Legacy Edition)
    • Shelly Manne;And His Men - The Wind - The Vinyl Masters More Swinging Sounds
    • Zoot Sims - Evening in Paris - Zoot Sims avec Henri Renaud et son orchestre

     

     

    Here is the spotify link : 

     

  3. Here is a collection of tracks exemplifying the essence of a melancholic night of solitude. Jazzy trip-hop/electro tunes filled with ambience and quiet mood. Perfect for a late night drive (or a solo night in). As the city sleeps, allow these tunes to keep you company.

     

    All suggestions are welcome! 

  4. Yes. To be honest I understand the inconvenient of my playlist. It's not a  "long string of one générique after another", but it's the repetition because every music is in the same calm mood with same instruments. But I like it so.

    And here are two other playlists more dynamic.

    L'heure du crime :

     

    Spy game :

  5. I know it. :) You were kind and BBS too. Maybe I seemed offended but I'm not. ( I'm no so fluent in English, sorry). I only wanted to clarify my way of thinking and my approach about this playlist.

    The experience you speak about is very interesting, indeed. :)

  6. Hey!

    Thanks for this good feedback.

    Actually, I'm not a purist. I didn't want to follow the jazz history or stay loyal to a genre in particular. I called my playlist "film noir" but what was really important for me was to create a dark/noir mood ; the one of the lonely detective walking alone through dark streets. I wanted to put some tracks together to inspire a long, lonely and melancholic ride. I agree with you, it's something out of my mind and my imagination (but maybe a collective imagination also) and who has never existed.

    I'm making another jazz playlist who will be called "L'heure du crime/the time of the crime" (excuse my French). :D Inside I will put other tracks, more frightening, more striking and more dynamic. It will be a different face of the "film noir". As I created "Femmes fatales & Detectives" with warm women voices. What is important for me when I listen to music is to see pictures, scenes and to travel through notes... :) I love music when it takes me for a ride. 

    If you look to my profile picture, you will see a smoking cat who's called Blacksad and who is a character in a "noir" comic strip. And so, you would say : "oh! that's not correct, in a true film noir, there aren't speaking and smoking animals...". ;) The creators took the genre's codes and did something else with them. 

    As Alexandre Dumas once said: "Yes, I'm raping History, but I make so beautiful babies with". :P 

    (Sorry for my poor English...)

     

    23 hours ago, Milestones said:

    Of course Miles did a soundtrack for a French noir.

    Yes "Ascenseur pour échafaud" and I put the "generique" in my playlist. The whole album is very good but I had to choose. :)  

  7. 16 hours ago, Milestones said:

    Where is the Payton's version of "Chinatown" to be found?  I really like Terence Blanchard's.

     

     

    On his album "Into the blue". Here : http://www.allmusic.com/album/into-the-blue-mw0000783324

     

    14 hours ago, kinuta said:

    I'd add the themes from Taxi Driver and Don't Smoke In Bed from The Two Jakes.

    I already put this one from taxi driver : http://www.allmusic.com/album/into-the-blue-mw0000783324

    And for the other one, I'd like to keep the playlist instrumental, but maybe I will put it in my "Femmes fatales & Detectives" playlist. But it's not perfectly the same theme. I drive a hard bargain, I know... ;) The Carly Simon's version is perfect for its atmosphere. 

    11 hours ago, JohnJ said:

    'The Big Nowhere', 'The Long Goodbye' and other tracks from this CD have a definite film noir feel.

    Tales From Hollywood

    Thank you for this discovery. I feel that I will like the whole album. But as I said, I would like to keep my playlist in an instrumental mood. I will surely use these songs elsewhere. :) 

     

    Edit : I know, my playlist on youtube is not up-to-date compared to the spotify version. Finally, I deleted the few songs with lyrics and I put them in the other playlist I was talking about. I will fix this. 

  8. Thanks for your recommendations! :)

     I already put "Always say goodbye". ;)  I could add Haunted heart too. But I try to put no more than 2 times the same artist in the playlist. 

    I added Bob Belden's Black Dahlia. Thanks!

     

     

     

  9. Hi everyone,

    Have you ever had this mood when you feel like a lonely detective walking through dark streets in an old "film noir"? Here are some melancholic and relaxing tunes to go with your blue states. Dark jazz playlist.

    Spotify : 

     

    Youtube : 

     

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