Jazz expert Richard Scheinin took the first two music services streaming for a spin
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If you are a jazz fan or a novice, Apple Music and Spotify play for your loyalty.
Each offers a vast collection of music - based on recordings of a century, from the ordinary to the dark. But they differ in their way of helping you get all that music.
To get an idea of what they have to offer to both jazz fans as a new genre, I took both services to give it a whirl. One emerged as a clear winner.
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To be fair, Apple Spotify and music are mostly serving the same music. In each, you'll find great libraries of Ellington, Charlie Parker and even avant-garde songs like Anthony Braxton. The challenge is to know where you can dive; For many, it will be unpredictable, because essential services continue mixing with nonessentials without offering advice on where to start.
Spotify, here and there, outside of Apple Music.
Her "related artists" to Billie Holiday (Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald) were more important than her competitor suggested. When I created a radio station around saxophonist Roland Kirk, the selections were soaked in the free ethos of the 60s and 70s.
And the focus on creating and sharing playlists Spotify reminded me how I learned new or unfamiliar acts in the pre-digital era, through the past fashion of conversations with d Other jazz lovers. Similarly, Spotify adds a social dimension to the Jazz learning process: "Hey, man, look at