So I’m sitting here on a Saturday night realizing it’s been just under a month since my last update. I guess it would be threadbare to say I’ve been busy but, as boring as that sounds, it’s mostly true. Sorry to disappoint.
A lot has happened in the last 4 weeks but here are few highlights:
Most people who know me are aware that I’m a huge music snob.
I got my first radio job in 1997 at this tiny jazz station in Lansing, MI where I grew up. They played “contemporary” (err… smooth) jazz during the days for all the state workers and at night it was all “straight-ahead” jazz, and late nights it was the blues (and I’m not talking about the classics… it was mostly modern, urban, white blues for weekend warrior types). I was 20 years old and already had a fairly wide lexicon of knowledge about jazz. My first few months I mainly got stuck doing the smooth jazz and blues shifts so it was absolute torture for me to open up the mic and try to sound somewhat enthusiastic. Didn’t I say I was huge music snob?