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i think you got 3 out of 3 there! Terje is the tricky one - I'm always wanting to to add an h in the surname Core artists at one point would also have included Pat Metheny, Stephen Micus, Ralph Towner, John Surman.... names like these and some others you would see a lot ... Garbarek obviously...

"Set Adrift" is the One really, but I remember loving the whole of that album this one almost makes me think of a reality rap versus dream rap opposition then there's "I'd Die Without You" but I don't think that has any rap element at all - it's a gauzy swoony ballad in the Prince lineage...

Skee-Lo "I wish" - the chorus goes "i wish i was a little bit taller"

thought I'd give Keith Jarrett's Koln concerts another go to these philistine ears it sounded a bit like Bruce Hornsby meandering across the keyboard in search of a tune as good as "That's Just The Way It Is"

piling the suggested tunes into this Late Period Reinforced playlist

yeah with the late 2010s wave of mumbly Auto-Tune trap you get a lot of ambient-woozy and IDM twinkly sounds + subdued / sedated delivery further etherealized through effects - so you get this mismatch of hard content (boasts, drugs, sexism etc) and soft sonics.

Guitar loop sampled from Jefferson Airplane's "Today"

this and Pharcyde "Passin' Me By" is probably on the edge of what I'm talking about but has that dreamy hazy quality

It figures that a song about having an inferiority complex would not lead to a lasting career in rap

I was just about to pull up something from PM Dawn! Used to love them

And here's another - British too This is just rapping superimposed over (and a beat underimposed beneath) a US garage tune from the '60s isn't it? Which one? update: It's "Gloria" by Them, Van Morrison's first group - so not US garage, but a song hugely influential on the US garage groups...

Yes probably this forum would tend to favor rap about gangs, guns, girl's butts, drugs and/or drug deals, boasts 'n' threats, conspicuous consumption etc. Either that or the militant hardcore - conscious and righteously rage-full But what about the softcore rap? Dreamy, goofy, quirky, floaty...

One detail I always remember about Jerry Garcia's unhealthy latter years is from some profile where it's mentioned that his blood is so full of THC and other druggy pollutants that it's almost as slow moving as mud. Probably a bit of journalistic-poetic license there but still, it stuck with me...

what a trooper, carried on performing!

Another one that tickles me - but only because it is so symbolic seeming - is the story of how Freddie Hubbard, who had like so many had followed Miles's lead and got into using effects on his instrument and the whole 'electric jazz' trip, wearing snazzy threads and so forth - how he got...

No way. (I mean, sounds horrible - but wow)

This is the place for your favorite rockstar deaths.... bizarre accidents... sundry misfortunes (No need to feel twinges of guilt - finding amusement in this kind of thing is just the Life Force asserting itself) I'll start things off with this story about Ronnie James Dio that really...

this is my fave piece of avian-garde musik from an unfindable cassette, self-released by the Aussie sound art / field recording stalwart Ron Nagorcka ah but turns out it was properly reissued last year, with another tape on the "flip" "Ron Nagorcka (1948) is a composer, performer, and...

A bloke wrote an entire book just about "Wichita Lineman". Dylan Jones - Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song

also liked the Robin Kenyatta and Terje Rypdal albums recommended upthread Urban Bushmen - the ultraclarity of the ECM production really works well with their their sound