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In Reply to: novelty posted by analog guy on May 15, 2007 at 10:20:27:
with 2800+ Jazz titles on my spread-sheet I think a few of 'em might be non-novelty. Of course, there's some others might wonder why I keep. but if it's good, it's good.One name that aways comes to mind when I think of the "oddballs" and questionables is Jonah Jones. I have gone through 3 major culls in the past 5 years or so and during the first one I pulled out a couple of his LPs to see if I should bother keeping him. I kept all that I had...quite a solid player!
But, then there's rarities like deep groove Blue Notes, Emarcy and Riverside. So there are a few non-novely LPs in amongst what used to have a bit of lard and has, through those 3 culls, been trimmed down, tightened up, and now has abs and buns of steel.
Is it "the best damned collection" in the world...hell no! Am I proud of what I have found? This non-ending diatribe probably proves that.
But one has to keep Jazz LPs like Crown LPs' "Jazz Masquerade" "Who's playing? It could be Charlie Parker... Do we hear Erroll Garner and Stan Getz?" Now THAT is a novelty Jazz LP!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Follow Ups:
...is generally pretty awful (in my experience0. their status as a budget reissue label didn't really help.does that record really sound good to you?
i think those 'mystery' sessions were gimmicks to try to sell more albums; they did 'masquerade' versions of some other types of music, too.
tell us some more about your riverside, emarcy & blue notes. love to hear it!
hee, hee.And all this time you wanted to hear about LPs that gave me a vinyl erection when I saw them in a box at a yard sale or flea market...silly me!
At one...1...ONE flea market I had to get defribulated when I saw for 1 buck each, 120 Jazz LPs, some were:
Chet Baker & Crew” Pacific Jazz PJ-1224
Chet Baker sings and plays with Bud Shank and Russ Freeman” Pacific Jazz PJ-1202
Banjo Kings, The
“… Vol. 1” Good Time Jazz L15
“…”Good Time Jazz L2
"Banjo Kings go West" Good Time Jazz L26
"Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers" Impulse A-7
Cliffor Brown
“Best Coast Jazz” Emarcy MG-36039
“Jam Session” Emarcy MG36002
“All Stars” Emarcy MG36102
Dave Brubeck
“Re-union” Fantasy 3268 VG+/VG+ Red vinyl
“…Trio” Fantasy 3204 VG+/VG+ Red vinyl
“…Plays and plays and plays…solo piano” Fantasy 3259
“Dave Brubeck Octet” Fantasy 3-239 Red vinyl
“…at the Wilshire-Ebell” Fantasy 3249 Red vinyl
“Jazz at the College of the Pacific” Fantasy 3-13 10” red vinyl
“Mood Ellington: Columbia CL6024 10”
“Gone with Garner” Emarcy MG26042 10”
Benny Goodman
”Session for Six” Capitol H202 VG+/G+ 10”
Lionel Hampton
“Hamp in Paris” Emarcy MG36032
Hawes, Hampton “Lighthouse at Laguna”Contemporary C3509
Jutta Hipp and her German Jazzmen; Mike Nevardd’s British Jazzmen “Cool Europe” MGME3157
Hodges, Johnny “Creamy” Norgran MGN1045
Kenton, Stan
“Artistry in Rhythm” Capitol H167 10”
“The Kenton Classics” Capitol H358 10”
“New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm” Capitol H383 10”
Shelly Manne
“My Fair Lady”Contemporary C3527
“Shelly Manne and His Friends” Contemporary C3525
McCoy, Clyde “Sugar Blues” Mercury EP1 3054 VG+/VG- 7” EP
Charles Mingus “Pithecanthropus Erectus” Atlantic 1237
Modern Jazz Quartet; Sonny Rollins “At the Music Inn” Atlantic 1299
Mulligan, Gerry “Mainstream of Jazz” Emarcy MG36101
Roach, Max “Jazz in 3/4 Time” Mercury Emarcy SR80002
Rollins, Sonny “Our Man in Jazz” RCA LSP2612
Scobey, Bob “Scoby and Clancy” Good Time Jazz L12009
Smith, Jimmy “Bucket” Blue Note 4235
“I’m Movin’ On” Blue Note BST84255
“Hobo Flats” Verve V8544
“Got MY Mojo Workin’ Verve V6 8641
"The Incredible Jimmy Smith with Kenny Burrell and Philly Jo Jones" Blue Note 84200
“Sit On It!”Mercury SRM1 1127
"Art Tatum" Capitol H216 10”
Tjader, Cal
“Jazz at the Blackhawk” Fantasy 3241 Red vinyl
“Mas Ritmo Caliente” Fantasy 3262 Red vinyl
Waller, Fats
“Ain’t Misbehavin’” RCA LPM1246
“One Never Knows, Do One?” RCA LPM1503Or is it just something like this:
Morgan, Lee; “The Sidewinder” Blue Note 4157, cause I have no idea where I found some of that sorta thang! Finding 120 early Jazz LPs in one place sorta sticks in one's head!That's the sort of thing I found in the 80's forcing myself to get up at 5 in the morning on weekends!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
which ones do you enjoy the most in that list, performance-wise?
I hit a score of LPs every weekend. Sometimes a bunch of old Rock...like Little Richard and Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. Sometimes late 60's, early 70's. I've had, on different occasions, 4 very clean "Disraeli Gears" on ATCO in my possession for 25 cents or less, for instance (there's 2 in the collection right now).Jazz scores were not that rare, but nothing like that one I wrote about earlier. I'd stopped at a flea market that had just opened...a little farm house along a rural road just off an exit on I-81. I asked about records and the guy just pointed upstairs. I walked into one room; had a huge pile of old Classical I'd picked out and then went to another room, started looking through huge piles of LPs, finding only a few that I wanted. Then I looked into a closet that had the door removed and damn near passed out!
I had never seen that sort of stuff before and probably never will in that amount. I've gotten calls from flea marketers to look through a few thousand LPs and I found lots and lots of late 50's and 60's Jazz, but never a pile of early LPs like that. I get shivers thinking about it today. It was a miracle! I still remember seeing those Emarcy LPs...I really thought I was going to have the big one, Alice!
It just occurred to me that with the sort of stuff they had, they probably had some old tube gear...I never thought of it until now...WAAAAAH, SOB, SOB! I got some Griswold frying pans there, if you know what those are. It was a great flea market, but they never "refreshed" it...once all the good stuff was gone there was nothing in the place worth buying.
I could have bought an old Allis-Chalmers tractor there for, I think, $75. That would have driven the old farmers around here batty! They had an old Ford and a really beat up John Deere. I'm a city boy...I can appreciate them but I'd never buy them.
Jeez, now I'm thinking about what I saw there and I could shoot myself for passing it all up! Lamps that were selling for 5 or 10 bucks that are probably worth thousands!
I'll get you for this, you mangy rat...you made me remember, now you're gonna pay! It'll take a while, but I'll think up an appropriate torture. Maybe send you all the Barry Manilow LPs I run across! No...not good enough!
The Monty Python method! Chased by a bunch of nude young women and forced to jump off a cliff! That'll do it!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
...you wouldn't say the mingus as i wouldn't mind giving it a nice home! :)great score & story; thanks for sharing. those days must'a been heaven for you.
at those prices, you could afford to be adventurous. i'd say it's less affordable for folks building a collection (of jazz, at least) to be absolutely adventurous. the low-priced stuff is, many times, not all that 'great'.... and the good stuff is less and less likely to be cheap (and even crap is often way overpriced).
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