{"id":24973,"date":"2019-08-26T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24973"},"modified":"2019-09-05T11:39:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:39:47","slug":"brian-j-jazz-poseur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/brian-j-jazz-poseur\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian J.: Jazz Poseur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much of a <em>poseur<\/em> at jazz am I?  I am using the French spelling of it, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>Also, I score 0 of 100 on this <em>GQ<\/em> article which would serve as a quiz if I had any of the answers:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/culture\/article\/best-jazz-albums\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 100 best jazz albums you need in your collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I have numerous albums and collections by artists who appear on this list, but I don&#8217;t have any of the individual records on this list.<\/p>\n<p>Which is explained by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Their collectibility&#8211;I don&#8217;t find the records at library book sales or thrift stores.<\/li>\n<li>I rarely seek out old recordings on CD, and you don&#8217;t find the CDs out in the wild, either.<\/li>\n<li>The list does not contain a lot of jazz\/torch singers, which is the kind of CDs I do seek out.<\/li>\n<li>I am a <em>poseur<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think about getting Miles Davis&#8217;s <em>The Birth of the Cool<\/em> from time to time, but that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s not so much that I&#8217;m a <em>poseur<\/em>; perhaps I&#8217;m not a <em>GQ<\/em> hipster.  It has been decades since I subscribed to that magazine, which I did as part of my late 1990s &#8220;I need to dress better and be more sophisticated by following magazine <em>diktats<\/em>&#8221; phase.  None of the <em>diktats<\/em>, though, included dropping a lot of foreign words in italics in conversations.  Which is just as well.  I wouldn&#8217;t have followed it if it had, much as I did not follow the clothing, music, book, or movie fashion tips I gleaned from the short-lived subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/340122\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ed Driscoll at Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font> Now that I have replaced my failed record player(s) and have gotten back to walking my fingers through my collection, I discovered that I do have Dave Brubeck&#8217;s <em>Time Out<\/em> (I also have <em>Time Further Out<\/em> and <em>Jazz Goes to College<\/em>).  So I have 1 out of 100.  <em>I am a hipster.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much of a poseur at jazz am I? I am using the French spelling of it, aren&#8217;t I? Also, I score 0 of 100 on this GQ article which would serve as a quiz if I had any of the answers: The 100 best jazz albums you need in your collection. I mean, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973","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=24973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25028,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24973\/revisions\/25028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}