What music do/would you listen 2 to relieve stress

[jazzbo]

Pops

Fats

Willie the Lion

Jackson T

Nat

T-Bone

Grateful Dead

lots of solo piano from Tatum, Jarrett, Beethoven, Hines, Satie, my friend Mel Winters, various people playing the D'Imperio Wellington, etc. . . .

Others too, but these are proven.

Edited October 19, 2005 by jazzbo

[Swinger]

Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power

It works fine every time when I want to get rid of stress!

[BeBop]

STRESS? WHAT STRESS?

I've gone from listening 40 hours a week to 40 minutes. 100+ hour work weeks. Constant travel. No 'portable' music, most of the time. Next time I see my CD collection (January '06), I'll try to pull out a couple of the recommendations here. Like the Coleman/Bierach, which I have only vague memories of.

Sorry, don't mean to gripe.

Personally, I'm a Ben Webster-for-stress-relief guy. No one better at low to moderate tempos.

[montg]

I tend to prefer music to match my mood, so the more stressed I am the better I feel, for some reason, if the music reflects that..so, something turbulent by Mingus, or Elvin, or Coltrane, or Booker Ervin....

Now, when I'm goofy happy, there's nothing better than Eddie Condon to match that mood. But that's another thread.

[clifford_thornton]

Recommended Music to Relax to...

Terry Riley's Persian Surgery Dervishes (New Tone)

But don't get too stressed if you can't find it...

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I love that record. I have a Shandar vinyl, and have played the shit out of it.

[CJ Shearn]

Enigma. LOL. A mix of made of some of their stuff. Mainly I like the atmospherics, but "I Love You, I'll Kill You" is strangely relaxing in an odd way.

[marcoliv]

anything from Jorge Ben. it works smoothly in less than 3 minutes

Marcus