Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of

Happiness Podcast.

For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want

to share that science with you.

And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley.

I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that

calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds.

BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

I'm Laurie Taylor and this is a podcast for BBC Radio Force thinking aloud.

Want to know the musical and political connections between

soul and reggae and asset house and rare groove and jungle? What a

sophisticated survey of the black musical scenes in London is all here. Hello, yes, my favorite things, refashioned by John Coltrane.

It's one of my favorite things too because for as long as I can remember I've loved the music that gets filed under modern jazz.

Miles Davis, the loniest mon Keith,

Jarrett, Wayne Shorter, Joshua Redmond,

Lee, Morgan, McCoy Tyne, and John Coltrane. train. Enthusiasm was only briefly undermined by a smarty pants postgraduate sociology student

who told me a few years ago that my taste was dreadfully predictable. Modern jazz, he told

me, is the perfect soundtrack for someone like yourself. I mean you don't dance to Modern Jazz, you lean back in your Eames chair, put your forefingers together, and appreciate it. It's cerebral, high-minded, cool, abstract, respectable.

It's never, well it's ever low down and dirty and with the people.

On the face of it, respectability seems an odd, but an odd chunky term to apply to something so fluid, so various, so unpredictable, so imaginative as modern jazz.

But as any study of musical styles quickly reveals music which speaks to one group of people

about their lives and their condition can sound quite alien to others.

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