All that jazz

Using jazz as an occasional soundtrack for the practice can be quite captivating.

Excluding trumpet, too cold and shouty (as much as I admire certain trumpeters, like Roy Eldridge and the "banished" Donald Byrd), and excluding piano as well, too sleepy or too acid, I would go for warmer sounds like sax, cello, guitar/bass and drums. I would also exclude voice, as I find it distracting, though there are some vocalists, particularly female voices, I simply adore.

Dealing with genres would require an extremely long post so better let it go.

As for artists, just a few names. For example Stan Gets and Lester Joung, Ray Brown and Ben Ezra (though not exactly a jazz player), Franco Cerri and Django Reinhardt, Peter Erskine (does Weather Report ring a bell?), Joe Morello and Gene Krupa.

That would be my choice today. Maybe I’m too simplistic… don’t know.

Ah, and for Savasana obviously Paul Desmond's (with The Dave Brubeck Quartet) "Take Five" 😎🎷

Happy listening and enjoy your practice!