Playlists
Here are some recently curated playlists for a variety of different listening experiences. This provides a taste of what the platform produces. You can also go the Mix Jedi Profile on Spotify to see all available playlists.
Classical Sampler
Recommended classical tracks
Updated Dec 04, 2024
Workout Mix
Up-tempo, energetic songs good for exercising to
Updated Dec 02, 2024
Muscle Car
The soundtrack to wrenching on, or driving, your muscle car on a hot sunny day
Updated Dec 02, 2024
Singer-Songwriter
Singer-songwriter tracks of low-to-moderate intensity
Updated Nov 30, 2024
Mellow Boomer
Boomer-era tunes; not too intense.
Updated Nov 28, 2024
Recent Releases
Recommended tracks that were recently released.
Updated Nov 27, 2024
The Sophisticated Boomer
Songs and artists from baby boomer's formative years
Updated Nov 27, 2024
Fine Dining Soundtrack
The perfect accompaniment to a fine dining experience. Subliminally-penetrating melodies and soundscape from classical to ambient to instrumental rock and jazz.
Updated Nov 26, 2024
Soft Rock
"Soft Rock" is my favorite oxymoron. Yet, there's nothing like a dose of low- to moderate-intensity songs from the rock era that feature a nice variety and skillful songwriting.
Updated Nov 26, 2024
Some Classic Soul
There's something about Soul music of the 1960s and '70s. A lot of heart, and, er . . soul was poured into those tunes. A gastropub full of millenials and Gen-xers had a streaming-service-version of this music playing, but Mix Jedi does it so much better.
Updated Nov 24, 2024
Disco-ish
Danceable tunes from the disco era that may or may not be true disco
Updated Nov 24, 2024
Rock With A Country Flair
There is a place where Rock meets Country, and stories are told that are rooted in love and loss, that everyone can relate to as an accompaniment to their day.
Updated Nov 23, 2024
GenX in the Aughts
GenX tunes from the late nineties and 'aughts
Updated Nov 22, 2024
Roots of GenX
Songs from GenX's formative years
Updated Nov 21, 2024
Divaville
Vocal jazz and pop from (or influenced by) the 1950s and early 1960s, representing the golden age of vocals, great songwriting, and swinging orchestrations.
Updated Nov 21, 2024
Nostalgia For Millennials
Songs and artists from Millennial's formative years
Updated Nov 18, 2024
Jazz Club
Recommended jazz tracks
Updated Nov 18, 2024
Breakup Songs
Recommended tracks featuring songs about breakups, former flames, or relationships gone wrong
Updated Nov 17, 2024
Pure Decadanse
Inspired by the "Decadance" section at the legendary Other Music in lower Manhattan, you'll find something a little quirky or out of the ordinary that gets under your skin, and you can't stop listening.
Updated Nov 17, 2024
Contemplate
Contemplate while listening
Updated Nov 17, 2024
91X in the 80s
A taste of what was played on San Diego's 91X in the 1980s
Updated Nov 16, 2024
Out In The Country
A playlist based on Out In The Country by Three Dog Night
Updated Nov 09, 2024
Long-playing Rock Tracks
Recommended rock tracks across all genres and periods that are longer than radio-friendly length, but deserve to be heard.
Updated Oct 30, 2024
Album Stack
Here's what's currently in the Mix Jedi album stack. These are the albums our staff are currently listening to. Feel free to listen along with us.
Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch (2001)
This is some refreshingly charming, rustic folk-country music that bears the mark of a culture buried in the Blue Ridge mountains, 3000 miles removed from her home in LA. The strength of these tracks are Welch's plaintive vocals, as tender as they are weathered.
rock | country | folk | singer-songwriter (BEA) added Nov 30, 2024
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I Often Dream of Trains by Robyn Hitchcock (1984)
A dreamy, acoustic, psychedelic folk album (no drums). The lyrics are brilliant and fearless, and often a bit cheeky. This is a great introspective album for listening to in front of the fire on cold, rainy evenings. The result is a sense of intimacy and a confessional tone that goes down easy and sits long on one's consciousness.
rock | pop | singer-songwriter (BL) added Nov 30, 2024
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Night Reign by Arooj Aftab (2024)
Jazz meets Singer-Songwriter in this Pakistani-American Practitioner of the Deepest Grooves. If I was teaching singers how to phrase over slow groove songs, I’d assign this album as homework. Who else today sings with such patience and flexibility, yet also such power? As good as the vocals are—and they are fantastic—I’d be impressed even just listening to the rhythm section.
jazz | singer-songwriter | experimental | world (TG) added Nov 28, 2024
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Funeral by Arcade Fire (2004)
They tread water in ambivalence because they have known real, blinding pain, and they have overcome it in a way that is both tangible and accessible. The eventual catharsis is part of our continual enlightenment. Funeral evokes sickness and death, but also understanding and renewal; childlike mystification, but also the impending coldness of maturity.
rock | pop (BL,BEA) added Nov 25, 2024
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Haydn: Symphony No. 100 'Military" - St. Martin/Marriner (1977)
This symphony makes innovative use of military instruments. Its context is within Haydn's prolific period of the London Symphonies and was popular in its time and continues to be a mainstay of classical repertoire.
classical (ACE) added Nov 23, 2024
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor - Montreal/Payare (2023)
From funeral marches, to frenzy, to love songs, Mahler takes us on a cohesive yet emotionally expansive journey, utilizing the orchestra in all its beauty.
classical (ACE) added Nov 23, 2024
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All Mod Cons by The Jam (1978)
The Jam delivered one of their defining statements, their initial punk ferocity injected with a stronger sense of ’60s R&B and a soulful invective. Weller’s sneering, lyrical indignation would reveal itself on the likes of Mr Clean and Billy Hunt, while more sensitive aspects of his songwriting emerged on English Rose and The Place I Love.
rock | pop (BL,RD) added Nov 22, 2024
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Beethoven Blues by Jon Batiste (2024)
Here Beethoven's repertoire is reimagined through the idioms of jazz and blues improvisation. Using Beethoven's music as the launch point for this is brilliant; the core tunes are full of potential and recognizable to just about anyone. Don't be a snob - go along on the journey.
jazz | classical (BL) added Nov 21, 2024
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Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers (1955)
This marked the beginning of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, and though Blakey's strong drumming helps establish the authority in this music, it's Silver who built the landscape here. He took what jazz had been since 1940 or so and made populist sense of it.
jazz (BR) added Nov 21, 2024
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Breakfast At Tiffany's by Henry Mancini (1961)
Mancini displays his knack for sweet, enduring melodies in this, his most decorated work.
jazz | musicals | decadanse (TM) added Nov 19, 2024
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Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor - Schwarz/Seattle (2011)
This is glorious music, played with character and vitality, with some terrifically rich and imposing playing; a bonus is the attractive and discernibly Slavic "edge" to the orchestra's string tone, particularly low down. The performance is lean and taut without losing its poetry.
classical (PRC) added Nov 18, 2024
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Aja by Steely Dan (1977)
Most music from 1977 sounds like it was made in 1977. Aja is timeless. The seven tracks exist in a kind of hyper-real state, where each snare drum hit is a dagger to the heart. Embedded within these tunes are chord sequences more demanding than you'll find in most jazz. Aja marks the rare occasion when a pair of wisecracking music obsessives managed an elaborate, unapologetically sophisticated end run around the lowest-common-denominator mentality of pop radio.
rock | pop (BEA,BL,TM) added Nov 17, 2024
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