I love it when an album perfectly matches my mood and the music allows me to enjoy or wallow in whatever the state I am in.

There are, however, many albums in Jazz that breaks up my mood and disrupt the activities I’m engaged in. Totally schizophrenic. I have to stop reading or driving (rather, paying attention to the road) or crying or reminiscing so that I can fast forward to where music and I are back in sync. It’s annoying. I get why some cats would do that. You want your album to have a range and you want to show the world what you are capable of. I just wish that you would do that over multiple albums and not in one disc. And I don’t mean for any album to be mono-tone but I like it when an album has a certain vibe and it manages to let me soak in it from beginning to end. 

Me’Shell N’degeocello is a master of that. Her albums are totally different from one to the other and each one has a very distinct feel. I know which one to listen to when I’m happy and which one to listen to when I’m depressed.