Below are two new releases I’ve been listening to this week: John Coltrane – Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album Discovering a lost John Coltrane album in 2018 is nothing short of a miracle, especially a studio album recorded in March of 1963 with Rudy Van Gelder and performed with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison … Continue reading What I’m Listening To: 7.5.18
I am sucker for jazz drum solos. I stumbled on two this weekend, both by Max Roach and from the same album, Brown and Roach Incorporated. The album features trumpeter Clifford Brown and was released in 1955. The first song, Sweet Clifford, comes at you with break neck, hard bop speed, as if the musicians … Continue reading Max Roach’s Drum Solos
I curated a playlist of laid back hip hop instrumental music to play in the background while writing, editing or even washing the dishes. It features music from Rafiq Bhatia, Fujitsu, Leavv, Yo La Tengo, Dirty Beaches, Jeff Parker and more. If you enjoy this playlist and would like to hear others, I have Vol. 1, Vol. … Continue reading Concentration Beats Vol. 5
I curated this one hour playlist of music to help you concentrate and focus. This playlist differs from those online in that it offers an instrumental beats/lo-fi/hip-hop/jazz driven style instead of classical or ambient. This playlist features music from BadBadNotGood, Khruangbin, Peanut Butter Wolf, The Album Leaf, Oddisee, Helios and many more. If you enjoy … Continue reading Concentration Beats Vol. 4
It’s time for another edition of Concentration Beats! This is the third volume of my beats playlists designed to allow you to plug in and play during those times when you need to lock out distractions and focus on that project you’ve been putting off all week. This will play for about an hour and … Continue reading Concentration Beats Vol. 3
It’s the Monday following the Super Bowl and you may be excited the Eagles won or you’re disappointed in the Patriots’ loss, but either way we’re all recovering in one way or another. I thought it would be a great time to post a new playlist of Concentration Beats, this being Volume 2 (Volume 1 … Continue reading Concentration Beats Vol. 2
I decided to officially “start listening” to jazz in high school. I started with the staples, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. This was in the CD era so I invested in buying jazz carefully because it’s easy to find something that looks great but in reality isn’t. And in … Continue reading Hartley’s Jazz Jams Vol. 1
This week’s playlist is all Eighties Babies with jams I hope would have persuaded Elizabeth Shue or Molly Ringwald to invite me on their next adventure. Appropriate for playing at work but also goes well with long night drives. Follow along below: Continue reading Hartley’s Eighties Babies Vol. 1
Aaron Hartley 