Jazz Study Sessions, Vol. 2 Album

Eleven acoustic jazz cues for reading, office work and dinner service. Cool jazz mixed down to furniture level, a drumless cocktail piece that runs on piano and air alone, two gypsy-swing takes driven by rhythm guitar instead of a kit, a hard bop cut with the rhythm section pulled unusually far down, and a rubato ballad with no pulse to follow at all.

The common thread is what has been removed. Most of these are real jazz arrangements with the element that normally makes jazz unusable as background — an assertive drummer — either mixed to the back or left out entirely. What is left is the harmony, at a level you can talk over.

All 320 kbps, no vocals, released under CC BY 4.0. Use them for reading and revision, office and coworking backgrounds, dinner service, hotel and lobby playlists, bistro and travel content, and audiobook or podcast narration. Credit Alex Morgan and you are done.