"Noir L.A." Dark Jazz Radio :::: 24/7 Stream & Jazz Noir Various
“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 m