mp
mezzo piano · moderately soft
Afternoon, unhurried
8 songs · 21 min

A little more lift: warm, jazzy lofi with an easy bounce, still never loud.
Soft Jazz Musicby Purrple Cat
Turn the dialmp · p · pp · ppp
Hush mode
Free to useCC BY 4.0 · all 32 songs
piano, Italian for soft. How soft would you like it?
pppianissimo · very soft
Mellow Rhodes and slow, round bass lines. Soft jazz for reading, late dinners and rain on the window.
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Soft jazz is jazz played quietly: brushes instead of sticks, a felt-soft Rhodes or piano, round upright-style bass and extended chords (sevenths, ninths) that sound warm rather than tense. It sits close to smooth jazz and cool jazz, but it never pushes. The point is a room that stays calm.
This page collects 32 jazz-leaning songs by Purrple Cat, the solo lofi project behind 500+ songs, 500M+ streams and 425K followers. It is honest lofi with a jazz heart, not a live combo: every song here was picked from the catalogue for rich chords and soft attacks, then ranked by how calm it measures. The dial borrows the way sheet music marks volume, from mp (moderately soft) down to ppp (as soft as it gets).
Every song, in plain text. Press a title to play it.
mp
mezzo piano · moderately soft
8 songs · 21 min

A little more lift: warm, jazzy lofi with an easy bounce, still never loud.
p
piano · soft
8 songs · 22 min

Gentle swing with soft drums and extended chords. The classic soft jazz music sound for working or winding down.
pp
pianissimo · very soft
8 songs · 21 min

Mellow Rhodes and slow, round bass lines. Soft jazz for reading, late dinners and rain on the window.
ppp
pianississimo · as soft as it gets
8 songs · 22 min

Hushed keys, barely-there brushes and long, warm chords for the very end of the night.
Soft jazz is jazz played quietly and warmly: brushed drums, soft piano or Rhodes, a round bass line and extended chords. It is close to smooth jazz and cool jazz, but calmer. The songs here are jazz-leaning lofi by Purrple Cat.
Yes. All four playlists are free to play here with no account and no ads. Every song is a Purrple Cat Self Release licensed under CC BY 4.0.
They are dynamics markings from sheet music. Piano is Italian for soft: mp is mezzo piano (moderately soft), p is piano (soft), pp is pianissimo (very soft) and ppp is pianississimo (as soft as it gets). Turn the dial to pick one.
Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows use in videos, streams, podcasts, games, restaurants and cafés, including commercially, as long as you credit: Music: Purrple Cat (purrplecat.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Purrple Cat is a solo lofi project making music since December 2018, with 500+ songs, 500M+ streams and 425K followers. More music is at purrplecat.com.
All 32 songs are Purrple Cat Self Releases under CC BY 4.0. Use them for a café, a dinner, a study stream, a video or a podcast, and give credit.
Music: Purrple Cat (purrplecat.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0.