Playlists
Always fresh. Tracks supplied by curators with taste. The Mix Jedi Profile on Spotify shows all playlists as well.
Singer-Songwriter
Singer-songwriter tracks of low-to-moderate intensity
Refreshed Jun 16, 2025
Recent Releases
Recommended tracks that were recently released.
Refreshed Jun 16, 2025
The Sophisticated Boomer
Songs and artists from baby boomer's formative years
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Breakup Songs
Recommended tracks featuring songs about breakups, former flames, or relationships gone wrong
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Contemplate
Contemplate while listening
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
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Mellow Boomer
Boomer-era tunes; not too intense.
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Disco-ish
Danceable tunes from the disco era that may or may not be true disco
Refreshed Jun 11, 2025
Album Stack
Here's the top of the Mix Jedi album stack. These are the albums recommended by our curators. Feel free to listen along with us.
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 - Capuçon/Haitink (2019)
There’s a chamber-music-like intimacy and introversion to the account of the Cello Concerto. Capuçon’s impetuosity and thoughtfulness are complemented by Haitink’s lifelong engagement with this music. Capuçon provides the best of both worlds, creating a profound sense of a lone figure lost in his thoughts during the first two movements, before suggesting an emotional rejuvenation in the finale. Bernard Haitink and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe follow him every inch of the way.
classical (PRC,GRE,BL) added Jun 08, 2025
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Glass Houses by Billy Joel (1980)
Billy Joel's major effort at making a real rock 'n roll album
rock | pop | singer-songwriter (BEA,BL) added Jun 07, 2025
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Madman Across The Water by Elton John (1971)
An album like Madman may contain four great songs, potentially four brilliant songs that rank among the finest in the artist's discography, but pairing them with several other tracks that sit squarely in the confines of mediocrity hurts most listener's opinion of the record, or maybe provides the counterpoint to emphasize how incredible the great songs are
rock | pop | singer-songwriter (BL) added Jun 07, 2025
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High Violet by The National (2010)
High Violet is the sound of a band taking a mandate to be a meaningful rock band seriously, and they play the part so fully that, to some, it may be off-putting. But these aren't mawkish, empty gestures; they're anxious, personal songs projected onto wide screens.
rock | pop (BL,BEA) added Jun 07, 2025
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - Van Cliburn/RCA (1958)
This recording gained fame following his victory at the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958, which was designed to showcase Soviet cultural superiority during the Cold War, but Cliburn, an American, won over the judges and the Russian audience. This is one of the best-selling classical albums of its time, played from the heart with a spellbinding virtuosity that seems almost effortless.
classical (JJP,TL,BL) added Jun 07, 2025
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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 117 - Rubio Quartet (2002)
This quartet is definitely more optimistic than the previous quartet and was dedicated to his third wife Irina Antonovna. It features jazz-like nervousness and even quotes the William Tell Overture. The Rubio Quartet only did one recording project, which was the complete Shostakovich, and it was masterfully done.
classical (BL) added Jun 01, 2025
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Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins (1957)
A masterpiece in which the melodic exploration is equal to the harmonic analysis that was typical of hard bop. Rollins' tone is rounded, and at times, he seems to stimulate the great Max Roach rhythmically as much as he is stimulated by him. And his always formidable musical intelligence is constantly evident.
jazz (BEA) added Jun 01, 2025
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Legend - The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers (1984)
Quite simply, Legend defines its' genre, and remains the essential way for a newcomer to sample reggae for the first time. Legend was issued originally in 1984, 3 years after Marley died from cancer. It quickly became the biggest-selling reggae album of all time, and it remains so to this day. Accordingly, the vast majority of the songs here have passed into the public consciousness so completely that you'll be able to sing the chorus to them despite never having knowingly heard them before.
rock | world (BEA,CMA) added May 30, 2025
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Plans by Death Cab for Cutie (2005)
Here you will find stately, melodic indie pop. Plans is best for those who like their pop music slow and tranquil - vivid with imagery - over and over again.
rock | pop (BL) added May 20, 2025
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Garden Ruin by Calexico (2006)
Garden Ruin is Calexico's most straightforward "rock" record. It blends jazz, country, American folk, and indie into concise, well-oiled pop songs. Garden Ruin is beautifully fleshed out and focused, retaining some of the duo's Southwestern elements but shifting the horn sound from Ciudad Juarez to Los Angeles.
rock | country | folk | singer-songwriter (BL) added May 18, 2025
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Algiers by Calexico (2012)
The band traveled to New Orleans to record Algiers, named for a neighborhood on the southwest banks of the Mississippi River. Algiers carries very little of the city's baggage and has more to do with burying the past than reviving it. This is an album that never sounds settled or still, defined not by one or another place but by the tumultuous spaces in between.
rock | country | folk | singer-songwriter (BL) added May 18, 2025
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The Thread That Keeps Us by Calexico (2018)
Much of the album was recorded in a studio in the California desert, which influenced its sound and atmosphere. Calexico's signature style lyrical depth and musicality is found here in their ability to blend various genres while maintaining a cohesive sound.
rock | country | folk | singer-songwriter (BL) added May 18, 2025
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