Biblioteca

Features sax greats like Paul Desmond and Stan Getz, among many others.

Mostly Turkish and Tunisian, although I'm looking for oud music that I like from anywhere and everywhere!

Multicultural, pancultural, syncretic, eclectic, folkloric, traditional, experimental, avant-garde, old-timey, multigrenre, multiculti, and multikulti musical adventures from all times, places, and...

Flutes from Turkiye, Japan, India, China, the Andean lands, and many other countries. Flutes include: Ney, Bansuri, Shakuhachi, and Panflute (Panpipes).

Milt Jackson (vibes), John Lewis (piano), Percy Heath (acoustic bass), Connie Kay (drums)

Non-traditional, new-agey (but not terribly so), acoustic guitar pieces derived from flamenco and Spanish melodies.

John Zorn and artists affiliated with the recording label, Tzadik, founded by Zorn.

Jazz heavily steeped in Afrocuban sensibilities, culture, tradition, and joy. Not synonymous with "Latin jazz," this is a special musical river. You'll need your paddles from time to time; keep...

Guitarists and singers from Mali, singing in that arab-tinged, nasal, minor tonality music of the desert and plain.

Ambient, impressionistic, soundscape, moody, dreamy, trance, color-rich, altered-states-of-consciousness-inducing...

Intensely intelligent, immensely moving, jazz performances.

Featuring guqin, dizi, guzheng, pipa, and other traditional instruments of China.

"Greek blues," or the old roots music of the Greek underground (subculture) during certain historical periods.

Compilation of the best ney (end-blown, reed flute) music I've found so far. It's not popping up like roses in June, but there's just enough ney music on the web to keep me entranced .... and even...

Percussion, particularly the djembe, from countries of West Africa (Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and the Senegambia region).

I am unable, at the moment, to muster the multiplicity of brains required to explain this music. I urge you to listen, despite the fact that I've given you know shiny lure, no trail of blood in...