AJ trainspotters mentioned in Fortune Magazine?
"...He is an idol of the jazz cult, which has developed a critical canon as precise and exacting as that applied to porcelain or Gregorian chant. The jazz cult is apathetic to nine-tenths of modern dance music.... but the cultist will often go to preposterous lengths to hear or collect records of the remaining tenth, the genuine hot music.
Furthermore, the jazz cult is international. It has no boundaries. In Europe, which is more critical and discriminating about all kinds of music than the U.S., there are many jazz connoisseurs. England and France have magazines strictly devoted to hot music."
Wilder Hobson, Fortune... 1933
Pretty cool, eh? Your mom's mom might have been a trainspotter back in the day? Too bad the AJ archives don't go back that far....
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