Jazz, Blues & Funk, Vol. 2 Album

Nine tracks split into six full pieces and three corporate stings of under forty seconds each. The six are a jazz fusion take, a jazz ballad, a late-night blues, a noir detective theme, a gospel blues with organ, and the most percussion-heavy jazz funk in the collection. The three stings are cut to the same specification as the two on Volume 1, so across the two albums there are five interchangeable bumpers a single campaign can draw on without a change of sound. The numbers worth knowing: a hundred and twelve turns up three times, more than any other tempo here; a hundred and sixty-two twice; ninety-nine, on the detective theme, is the slowest and also carries the widest dynamic range of the nine, because it is written as a theme with an arc rather than as a bed. Two tracks run exactly three minutes twenty-five, to the second, at tempos fifty apart — the fusion piece is the flattest thing on the album and the blues is one of the most patient. The thirty-second startup sting is the only track here with no detectable key at all: it is too short and too rhythmic for one to settle. The gospel blues is the only piece whose level builds across the take instead of holding steady.

All 320 kbps, no vocals, released under CC BY 4.0. Use them for noir and true-crime intros, 1940s-styled drama, blues bars and late-night radio pastiche, documentary and human-interest footage, night city and club promos, long lounge and restaurant service, and explainer, keynote and startup promo openings. Credit Alex Morgan and you are done.