The Musik Lounge

  Mizo and I linked up one mo' gin! As the end of the year approaches and we start contemplating the best sounds we heard this year (many documented right here, crazy to think we have been at this Sunday vibes thing for over three months now!) we knew it was time to lay down one more pure Jazz sesh. Given that one volume of our best of the year mixes will be entirely Jazz we figured this round would be best served to touch base on older sounds of this improvised social music we both love. We open with a Cannonball Adderley and David Axelrod jam espousing the traits of a Gemini over an atmospheric groove. As it plays along you will see some familiar names from the past and the more recent scene. Mizo dropped in a Freddie Hubbard jam and the tunes spoke to me in a way that I couldn't refuse an Irreversible Entanglements tune from their debut I recently swooped from IA's bandcamp. Hopefully the sounds here will soundtrack this gray and drizzly Sunday with peace, joy and som...

  Back at it on the solo tip! Mizo is still frolicking around LA (or chilling out socially distancing w/ friends) so I took the chance to get in the lounge and lay down a mix after work on Friday to bless y'all lovely peeps with. It started out flowing along bouncing between records I'd listened to this week and tunes from the cloud I'd come across while cooking and progressed into what's rapidly becoming a theme to these mixes of seeking interesting interplay between tunes when blended together. Sometimes it works and sometimes it might have been a stretch. I was also intrigued by the amount of live tunes I happened to drop throughout, the crowds cheers and applause definitely added a certain flavor to the blends. Either way, guaranteed listening pleasure for your Sunday!