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In Reply to: I am sure Jack has ALL of them!!!! posted by Allan Songer on September 18, 2006 at 07:31:47:
I'd kill to own all the Blue Notes! Well, maybe not kill...ya, I'd kill!While my collection ain't no slouch, it has more gaps in it than Penssylvania's Allegheny mountains (inside joke for easterners only). I keep buying reissues when I realize the gap exists, just in time to find more! It never ends!
If I had more money, I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LP's!
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No Rock. No Classical. 4000 or so jazz records--the number has been pretty stable for many years--I've been in refining mode for a long, long time.
I vaguely recall Kareem Abdul Jabar supposedly owning a 50,000 title jazz collection, stored in his house that burned down many, many years ago. Does anyone have any knowledge of Kareem and jazz, unobscured by a poor memory made worse by old age and dead brain cells?
Grew up in Harlem. Loves the music. Lost his collection in the fire I heard. I or 2 failed labels (Cranberry Records was one I think). Shows up at the clubs and concerts in NYC from time to time. His autobiography has great descriptions of the club scene in NY when he was a young man. A gentleman, a great man.
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VERY nice man. He also lost about 3 million dollars worth of antique oriental rugs in that fire . . .
in his interviews. Plus, there's his direct connection to 'The Wizard of Westwood', one of my personal heroes.So, is the 50,000 jazz title figure accurate? Was Kareem able to re-build his collection after the fire? The only reason I ask is that a jazz vinyl collection of that size and, presumably, scope, is almost archival, and a huge musical treasure. Would love to hear that he was able to put it all right. Allan, you're an S.C. guy, why don't you run up to his house some afternoon and see what's up. (-:
BTW, I googled the crap out of this a couple of weeks ago, and came up with nothing.
When you think of the wealth of knowledge and first hand experience here in Vinyl Asylum ... man, it just astounds me.I love this wing of the Asylum.
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