A sweet jazz commute

It's Tuesday, wet, wild, and wooly.  Another night of heavy rains and high winds, more flooding around the region, power outages, and fallen limbs.  I know at one point last night I woke to the sound of wind-driven rain slamming into the western wall of our bedroom.  

Miles Davis kicked of the morning commute shuffle with one of the most beautiful jazz and orchestral compostions of all time, from the highly regarded Sketches of Spain collaboration with Gil Evans.  It started on my drive home last night, so only about half of the 16 minute track was left to savor this morning. This remains one of my favorite of Davis' albums, tied with Kind of Blue.  The Concierto was a wonderful way to ease into the early morning hours of the day.

Then it was on to more great jazz and a seemingly genre-focused selection this morning.  All but one of the tunes were instrumental, and the one vocal was an instrumentally-heavy piece of solid blues (Midnight Radio).  Even the Belle and Sebastian track (Fiction Reprise) is a sweet instrumental piece from a film soundtrack the group wrote.

The full playlist:

• Miles Davis: Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
• Charlie Hunter Quintet: Whoop-Ass
• Terence Blanchard: Flow, Pt. 3
• Big Head Todd & The Monsters: Midnight Radio
• Belle and Sebastian: Fiction Reprise