The Unforeseen Story of a Blog: 10 Jazz Albums Before You Die
josephalapin
Posted on November 18, 2012
Over a month or so ago, I wrote a piece for the OC Weekly on jazz. It was called Ten Jazz Albums to Listen to Before You Die. I wrote the post after I read Sean J. O’Connell’s piece, Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don’t Know Shit About Jazz, at the LA Weekly. O’Connell’s piece was great, but I had a different take. I knew the albums that ignited my curiosity, and I wanted to share my viewpoint. So I wrote the piece targeted at the OC Weekly audience — a readership who is young and with a jazz scene that isn’t traditionally something to write home about, though it’s there. My intention was to write a post introducing people to jazz…