Cocktail Bar & Lounge Jazz, Vol. 1 Album

Eleven café tracks in three groups: two hard bop cuts, five ballads, and four jazz funk numbers. The ballads split four against one — Coffee Shop, Cocktail Bar, Midnight Club and Restaurant all share C major, while Sunny Cafe is the only minor-key ballad here, which gives it a depth the others deliberately avoid. Tempo runs wider than in any album so far: a hundred and forty-four beats per minute on Hard Bop Restaurant down to sixty-eight on the slowest ballad, a seventy-six beat spread. Jazz Funk Restaurant is the only track in the whole set with no detectable key at all, and it carries the heaviest percussion here to match. Two jazz funk cuts, Cocktail Bar and Coffee Shop, land on the exact same hundred-and-three tempo despite one running more than twice as long as the other — Coffee Shop, at one minute eighteen, is the shortest track in the album, built more as a sting than a bed.

All 320 kbps, no vocals, released under CC BY 4.0. Use them for cocktail and hotel bars, jazz-leaning restaurants, record shops and hi-fi content, romantic and late-evening scenes, spa and quiet dining rooms, and short-form video that needs a punchy jazz funk stinger. Credit Alex Morgan and you are done.