Music has always been important to me, and I love discovering new-to-me music. See below for some of my current and past favorites organized by category.

I tend to listen to full albums so the individual songs here are representatives for their albums and likely also more albums by the same artist/performer. This list spans a wide range of genres and the music I actually listen spans a lot more than what’s listed here. On Spotify, I often explore mixed playlists based on one artist to discover related ones (“Radio …” etc.).

I tend to listen to one musician/ genre/ composer/ performer for a while – hours, days and sometimes weeks – before switching to something else.

This is a companion article to A few of my music favorites through the years which organizes the music on a timeline.

The “Read more” button will reveal this full article and a linked index.

Table of Contents

Categories

Contemporary African & Franco-African Fusion

These days, this is the music I tend to listen the most to.

Nu-jazz, soul-jazz, Afro-Latin grooves

And also this.

Neo-soul & contemporary jazz

I often listen to Radio … on Spotify for this kind of music, partly to discover more artists since there are so many excellent ones. This is just a small selection.

Indian & South Asian fusion

Latin music

Brazil & Bossa Nova

Jazz classics – instrumental

Since my twenties, I have listened to jazz classics now and then, starting with Django Reinhart. More recently, I have listened more to other kinds of jazz classics. This list could be very long so I’ll make it short.

Jazz song

Nordic Music

I love the music of Mari Boine, and enjoy other Nordic music now and then.

Electro-swing

In the mid-2010s, I had a period where I listened a lot to electro swing.

Electronic & ambient

Now and then, I still enjoy electronic and ambient music.

Traditional & global

Celtic & North-American traditional

Soundtracks

Sting & Kate Bush

I love the music of Sting and Kate Bush, for slightly different reasons. Kate Bush gives me goosebumps and Sting is just very good songwriting with a heart.