In a listening rut...

[jazzbo]

I agree with Conn that you bring your mood and interior life into a listening and the result is deeply influenced by what you bring.

And like others here I listen to a multitude of styles of jazz in rotation, or sometimes in a fixated sequence, and also to Hendrix, Dead, brazilian music, etc. and that helps me stay interested.

And when things are really bad Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller and Nat Cole are what I reach for and they WORK.

[Bright Moments]

two words:

moody blues! B-)

[clifford_thornton]

There are so many people who are so comfortable with listening to the same crap year in and year out that we should be thankful having 'ruts' where we're listening to too many BNs in a span of a few weeks. Christ! You people need to worry less!