I wasn’t expecting an Anthony Braxton reference when I started reading The Prone Gunman (née: La Position du tireur couché, 1981) by French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942-1995). The person going on about jazz here isn’t the titular gunman. It’s an annoying character who’s married to the gunman’s ex. The novel is old enough that maybe in the early 1980s the “noir protagonist listens to jazz” trope wasn’t yet as tired as it has become — or perhaps this scene was already pushing back at the trope.