{"id":27491,"date":"2021-01-12T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27491"},"modified":"2021-01-12T06:49:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:49:02","slug":"how-i-got-my-first-jazz-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/how-i-got-my-first-jazz-album\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Got My First Jazz Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I took the back-up car to drive the youngest to school yesterday, and I have my audio course lectures in the primary vehicle.  So I set the audio system to pick up music from my pocket computer.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of my workout playlist, which I tend to stream from my wrist computer when I&#8217;m at the YMCA, it started playing a Keiko Matsui album, a light, jazzy tune as I drove along.  Suddenly, I&#8217;m having a flashback to driving a car in 1996 or so.  But it&#8217;s not me driving: It&#8217;s Philip Marlowe in a video game called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Private_Eye_(1996_video_game)\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Private Eye<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/privateeyevideogame.jpg\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\"><i>Screenshot courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodolddays.net\/game\/id%2C956\/lang%2Cen\/mobile%2C0\/Private-Eye.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Old Days.net<\/a><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>I bought the game at a little PC shop that started out in High Ridge but ended up in Murphy; I had done my own time in a different PC seller before hand.  I was driving a grey sedan at the time and had been wearing a fedora for several years by that point.  So when I spotted this game, I hopped on it.  I remember playing it in the dining room of my aunt&#8217;s house in Lemay, where my mother and I lived for a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>When Marlowe is driving, the game plays a little jazzy music.  And I wanted the same for myself.<\/p>\n<p>Although St. Louis had (and has) a jazz station broadcasting from across the river in Edwardsville&#8211;WSIE&#8211;reception is a bit spotty towards the southern part of the St. Louis area (such as Lemay and later Old Trees when I lived there).  So I thought about picking up a jazz album&#8211;on CD, as I was not thinking in terms of records then.  So I did a little research, perhaps on AOL (lol), and I decided on a saxophone jazz album:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/coltrane.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, my cars at the time did not have a CD player&#8211;and I don&#8217;t think the grey sedan even had a cassette deck&#8211;so I was dependent mostly on the radio for my music listening.  So my foray into jazz at that time didn&#8217;t go very far.  I did end up with a Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald CD, though, by the time I moved to Casinoport&#8211;where I could receive WSIE on my radio when it was on the top of the bookshelves and the antenna was pointed just so.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was a long time ago and many jazz albums ago.  Although, as you know, gentle reader, my jazz tastes tend to run to pretty women doing jazz these days, so I haven&#8217;t listened to the Coltrane album for a long time.  I should probably rectify that.  At some point, probably around the turn of the century, my beautiful wife gave me a Coltrane box set which I should listen to as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took the back-up car to drive the youngest to school yesterday, and I have my audio course lectures in the primary vehicle. So I set the audio system to pick up music from my pocket computer. 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