I wanted to listen, over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was a sophomore in college, and a film major. I had spent the last year doing sound for friends and for class assignments. I had stayed in an audio editing suite for more than 24 hours. I wanted to be a sound engineer when I grew up, and I was finally getting a chance to explore that. I didn’t know that the job market was shit for sound engineers; I doubt I would have cared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, I don’t remember the context, but the TA for the class had played a few seconds of this mournful, lonesome trumpet in class, and afterwards I rushed her to ask what that was. Who? What? How? She laughed and gave me the name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a French soundtrack, so I knew Dr Wax wouldn’t have it, so I stopped by Chicago Compact Disc (RIP). The older brother behind the counter greeted me in his empty store, and I heard the absolute smoothest composition playing. I told him that I was loving what he was playing, but did he happen to have…? He pointed me to the back of the store, under IMPORTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was there. It was also $30. And to someone on work study money, that was a LOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I also had to have the album that was playing. I’d never heard anything like that before, and it was completely new to me. And that CD was $20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Needless to say, I bought them both, and then survived on chicken cutlets from my cafeteria meal plan for the next good while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I shoehorned Miles’ trumpet into a short film I made, which the professor recognized right off. I didn’t use Dexter for anything, but it is one of the first things I play for people who want to know jazz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, here’s to Miles Davis’ Ascenseur pour L’echafaud<\/em> and Dexter Gordon’s Go<\/em>. A lifetime of good music, only remembered; it has to start somewhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wanted to listen, over and over again. I was a sophomore in college, and a film major. I had spent the last year doing sound for friends and for class assignments. I had stayed in an audio editing suite for more than 24 hours. I wanted to be a sound engineer when I grew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tallblackguy.com\/write\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}