International Jazz Day [Something Interesting #47]

Apparently, International Jazz Day is a whole thing!

I was originally planning on making this just a micro-post, let's just go ahead and put a whole bunch of things up to celebrate. Jazz, like classical music and minimalist music, are things I enjoy in fits-and-starts while I'm working on tasks and other projects. It's never been an obsession like pop music has for me but I know enough to be dangerous when talking about it I guess. While I like a lot of the basic albums everyone's heard at some point (Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme, Time Out), jazz is a lot woolier and more expansive which warrants anyone willing to give it the time to develop their own personal canons. Much like the alternative to reading lists I posted a while ago, I'm mostly just going to use this post to do the following:

Post links to various Greatest Albums lists and articles about jazz history (plus recommend one of my personal writing influences, Ted Gioia...)
Post documentaries and other primer videos about jazz
Post Spotify widgets for albums that are personal favorites or recent listens I've just discovered for the first time (in no particular order)

Jazz history and appreciation contains such a wide field of knowledge and experiences that I'll never be able to do it any justice with a blog post. (This isn't going into actually playing jazz, which is its own can of worms.) Go forth, find what you like, and enjoy the music today.