{"id":24970,"date":"2019-08-26T08:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24970"},"modified":"2019-08-25T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T21:46:19","slug":"a-musically-unbalanced-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/a-musically-unbalanced-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Musically Unbalanced Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/brian-j-unbalanced\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March<\/a> when I last updated you, gentle reader, as to my musical purchases and checked to see how balanced they were between heavy metal and jazz songbirds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a little naughty in buying CDs here recently, so I thought I&#8217;d go back through time to see how I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>In the last six months, I&#8217;ve purchased:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>True Love<\/em> by Jessy J<\/li>\n<li><em>Second Chances<\/em> by Jessy J<\/li>\n<li><em>Rewind, Replay, Rebound<\/em> by Volbeat<\/li>\n<li><em>Cherry Blossom<\/em> by Keiko Matsui<\/li>\n<li><em>A Drop of Water<\/em> by Keiko Matsui<\/li>\n<li><em>Another Place<\/em> by Hiroshima (I already own it on vinyl, but want it available when I am not at a working record player.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Meliora<\/em> by Ghost<\/li>\n<li><em>Crossfade<\/em> by Crossfade<\/li>\n<li><em>All I See Is War<\/em> by Sevendust<\/li>\n<li><em>Storyteller<\/em> by Morgan James<\/li>\n<li><em>Hunter<\/em> by Morgan James<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/a-new-jazz-crush-has-entered-the-arena\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We&#8217;ve Only Just Begun<\/em><\/a> by Ashley Pezzotti<\/li>\n<li><em>Core<\/em> by Stone Temple Pilots<\/li>\n<li><em>No. 4<\/em> by Stone Temple Pilots<\/li>\n<li>The Purple Album<\/em> by Stone Temple Pilots<\/li>\n<li><em>Shangri-La Dee Dah<\/em> by Stone Temple Pilots<\/li>\n<li><em>Tiny Music&#8230;.<\/em> by Stone Temple Pilots<\/li>\n<li><em>Storyteller<\/em> by Tine Thing Helseth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my defense, the Stone Temple Pilots CDs came in a set that cost as much as a single CD.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve got 8 jazz songbirds, although Hiroshima is a stretch even with Barbara Long on the vocals and Morgan James considers herself to be a soul singer and not a jazz singer.  We&#8217;ve got 9 metal albums.  So it&#8217;s not as unbalanced as I thought.  Also, one classical trumpeter who might be the second prettiest trumpeter in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t make up for the jazz-heavy winter and spring, but there&#8217;s a new Hellyeah! album coming out next month.  Which will help.  Also, my opportunity to listen to metal has been curtailed.  I&#8217;ve not been going to the gym that frequently lately.  My job has frequent phone meetings which interrupt.  And I&#8217;m not driving far enough to listen in the car.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps it is just as well, although it&#8217;s just as sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was March when I last updated you, gentle reader, as to my musical purchases and checked to see how balanced they were between heavy metal and jazz songbirds. I&#8217;ve been a little naughty in buying CDs here recently, so I thought I&#8217;d go back through time to see how I&#8217;m doing. In the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-musical-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24972,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24970\/revisions\/24972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}