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CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

The proximate reason I cracked the jazz albums waiting patiently on my A shelf was context: confronting political exile Abdullah Ibrahim, pondering media here Wynton Marsalis, knocked for a loop by boho posers the Lounge Lizards, I needed a sense of their musical competition.

February 1, 1987
ROBERT CHRISTGAU

CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

ROBERT CHRISTGAU

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The proximate reason I cracked the jazz albums waiting patiently on my A shelf was context: confronting political exile Abdullah Ibrahim, pondering media here Wynton Marsalis, knocked for a loop by boho posers the Lounge Lizards, I needed a sense of their musical competition. A few days later I was anticipating the labors of the forthcoming CG with dismay—somehow this music was not preparing me to calibrate microdistinctions among young white bohemians. Then again, neither is anything else these days, so I decided to take a breather for the rest of the month.

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