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“And then — she walked in” Jazz Noir, Dark Jazz, and How Music Tells a Story
Featuring thoughts from Morten Gass of Bohren & der Club of Gore
Consider, for a moment, the following:
The acrid smoke from the last cigarette in my pack wafted up from the dim ember and mingled with a thin misting of steam rising up from the gutter. Each passing pair of headlights that crawled by on the street only briefly illuminated the grimy, rain-slick concrete sidewalk, but it was long enough to confidently take another step in the murky darkness. I reached up with my free hand — the one unencumbered by the the only stress reliever I could rely on anymore — and pulled the corners of my overcoat closer around me. At a guess, I had another handful of blocks before I would pass my apartment building stoop. Being the night that it was, though, meant that I would be passing right on by. After all, I had been hired to find her — and it was nearly midnight.
Pulpy, ridden with time-tested noir tropes, but most importantly, evocative. It’s that kind of writing that birthed an entire genre of film. A Streetcar Named Desire, L.A. Confidential, The French Connection, to name a few.
Jazz noir, however, is predicated on the idea that the music is just as vital of a storytelling component than any fedora-wearing, revolver-packing, grizzled detective with a troubled past....
"Jazz-Noir" - Photography: Sebastian Sava Gor
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