Tonight I find myself listening to the Blue Note Hour on XM 70. Normally I can listen to just about any form of jazz, but piano trio stuff is what I like best. Right now a low tempo jazzy groove is playing and for once I'm not obsessing over who it is.
My flaw in jazz listening is that I don't have the drive to seek out new artists and new titles. That is, when I hear something I like I just say to myself "wow, that's hot" and let it go. So what happens then is that a melody gets stuck in my head with no way to reference it to the outside world. I still have a chord progression that I've kept in my head for absolutely 10 years. I heard it when the local PBS FM station used to play jazz at night, and I've never heard it since.
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