Song of the Day: "Hippies on a Corner" by Joe Sample on the Best of Smooth Jazz, Vol. 1 album. This track started me on a serious quest for some really good Jazz. Not that I didn't like the genre previously, but now I have a better understanding of what I like in Jazz: mixed and complicated rhythms, played on a variety of instruments, but most especially the piano. Mr. Sample does this and more in the several tracks that I've collected since though "Hippies" is still my favorite for all these reasons and more. This piece has a simple joy to it, much like "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by Vince Guaraldi with the passion behind George Winston's "Linus & Lucy." This easily makes it easily fit many moods and situations.