Got my dad a 3rd iPad shuffle to fill with jazz at the nursing home.
The first two times I had the music in my computer, but not the stuff in my external hard drive.
This time it’s from my Blues and Jazz playlist which is 4 and 5 star Jazz and Blues songs.
Lots of vocal stuff.
Tons of Ella Fitzgerald (30 tracks), Billie Holiday (33 tracks). Lots of Duke Ellington (30 tracks), Muddy Waters (34 tracks).
Also good sprinklings of all sorts of good jazz and some blues that my dad and me love. Bo Diddley (7 tracks), Chet Baker (11 tracks), John Coltrane (6 tracks), Louie Armstrong (8 tracks), Miles Davis (8 tracks), Robert Lockwood Jr. (5 tracks), and Bill Evans (8 tracks).
233 tracks all stuff we both love. I love that my dad taught me a love for music. Ended being 71 blues tracks and 162 jazz tracks, good mix. And yes, I like lists and numbering things.
Some favorite albums (all highly recommended) on the playlist include: Kind of Blue – Miles Davis, The Aristocrat of the Blues (mostly Muddy Waters), The Best of the Songbooks – Ella Fitzgerald, Billie’s Best – Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman.
Happy birthday, dad (yes it was on October 23rd), but will be there tomorrow.