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Would be interested in looking at a list of the BN in your collection. Wow!
I have ALL of the 12" and about 1/3 of the 10", but I'm sure Jack has every last one except for maybe some of hte late 60's/70's Liberys and UAs.
Actually, Allan, your assessment is spot on.I lost interest after Liberty took over. (Not that there isn't good music ...
I bought most of them for less than $10--MANY of them for $2 or $3 just to "round out the set." But every once in a while some Reuben Wilson or Ronnie Foster sounds SOOOOOOOOOOO good . . . .
You didn't think we'd forget that, did you?
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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!
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.
Yep.
Yep, I have a few of dem dar jazz LP's.
I want them all!
That music is not hard to find either as reissue Lp or on CD. Here is but one (well done ) example of that particular (excellent) recording. The originals are of course another matter. I usually don't sweat it until I get my hands on one and realize how special they can be.
Good work, Jack Seaton!
but they keep coming.
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I bought my Lexington flat-edge 1533 "off the wall" at Aaron's Records (RIP) for $100. It's NM/NM all the way. This was around 1988 or so.
and it was all I could do to scrape up $3.79 for an OJC. Every 3rd Friday at Leopolds's.
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