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Post by Doom Girl on May 6, 2020 23:36:58 GMT
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Post by gregorythefish on May 7, 2020 16:23:17 GMT
yeah, he played with steve marcus a lot, too. and to say his collection had some treasures... it is still the best collection i've ever purchased. amazing stuff. all over the jazz tradition, lots of fabulous lesser-known titles. it was a delight. and his family were some of the nicest people i've ever met.
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Post by Rikki Nadir on Mar 23, 2024 0:42:45 GMT
I realise I'm rather late to the party on this one but, FWIW, here are my thoughts.... I'm more interested in quality than quantity, so anything that I'm not likely to play again gets sold or given to a charity shop. I've got rid of hundreds and hundreds of records (vinyl and CDs) over the years, and I don't miss any of them. I find it therapeutic to slim down a collection from time to time. It focuses my mind on what I'm still interested in hearing, and of course it creates shelf space for new discoveries. I've stopped collecting vinyl. I have about 500 LPs, all neatly boxed up and catalogued waiting for the day when I'm ready to sell them to some dealer who'll give me a respectable price for them. I still have a few thousands CDs (mostly classical, avant-garde and jazz). Some genres (rock, electronica, avant-garde) I don't buy anymore because I've finished exploring those areas. There's very little jazz I still want to collect and very little classical I still want to collect; I prefer to stream those genres, or listen to the discs I've already got. My main areas of collecting activity are film soundtracks and library music, which I don't often buy because they're so expensive. I can foresee a time when I will reduce, reduce, reduce the collection down to the bare necessities - the key recordings that define who I am as a listener.
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Post by dottorjazz on Mar 23, 2024 11:11:35 GMT
I realise I'm rather late to the party on this one but, FWIW, here are my thoughts.... I'm more interested in quality than quantity, so anything that I'm not likely to play again gets sold or given to a charity shop. I've got rid of hundreds and hundreds of records (vinyl and CDs) over the years, and I don't miss any of them. I find it therapeutic to slim down a collection from time to time. It focuses my mind on what I'm still interested in hearing, and of course it creates shelf space for new discoveries. I've stopped collecting vinyl. I have about 500 LPs, all neatly boxed up and catalogued waiting for the day when I'm ready to sell them to some dealer who'll give me a respectable price for them. I still have a few thousands CDs (mostly classical, avant-garde and jazz). Some genres (rock, electronica, avant-garde) I don't buy anymore because I've finished exploring those areas. There's very little jazz I still want to collect and very little classical I still want to collect; I prefer to stream those genres, or listen to the discs I've already got. My main areas of collecting activity are film soundtracks and library music, which I don't often buy because they're so expensive. I can foresee a time when I will reduce, reduce, reduce the collection down to the bare necessities - the key recordings that define who I am as a listener. none is too late here and you brought food for thought. 1) I've got rid of hundreds and hundreds of records (vinyl and CDs) over the years, and I don't miss any of them. 2) It focuses my mind on what I'm still interested in hearing. 3) I don't buy anymore because I've finished exploring those areas. 4) I can foresee a time when I will reduce, reduce, reduce the collection down to the bare necessities - the key recordings that define who I am as a listener. 1) in 60 years of collecting I never bought a record in order to resell it, it should have some interest for me. when the interest faded away, for any reason, I sold it AND I've never missed it. Began 1968. 2) my main interest is in 50s and 60's Jazz. at a certain point of my life, I thought to have explored the whole period extensively so dedicated my research to Classical, beginning with the polyphony of 15th century. Began 1988. 3) never stopped buying vinyl, looking for 2 different features: original first edition and quality. this means I have upgraded single records a lot. 4) now I have around 1000 Jazz records, over 95% originals and I'm so proud of them all. 5) when one record doesn't satisfy me anymore, it goes fastly on my sale list that's now around 100, so 10% of my collection. 6) I've been offered to sell but I refrained. I dedicated part of my whole life to music, and I've been reciprocated. 7) my sons are not interested in following my path, and that's a pain for me. 8)I listen to my music everyday, even when in my office. 9) I'll be 71 next Fools day, how old are you?
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Post by bassman on Mar 23, 2024 13:24:18 GMT
[ ... ] There's very little jazz I still want to collect and very little classical I still want to collect; I prefer to stream those genres, or listen to the discs I've already got. [ ... ] In general, streaming is not for me. At best, I use digital sources if I want to get informed about something I don't know, or if somebody wants me to participate in a project that involves getting acquainted with new music. Otherwise, i.e. when I listen to music for my own pleasure, I tend to use old-fashioned media such as CD or even vinyl. Not being a "serious" collector at all, my collection still is rather bulky, and I do love the authenticity and historical flavour of (old) vinyl. So, more often than not, I listen at home. I don't need any soundtrack while walking, cycling, driving, or riding a bus. There will always be some kind of soundtrack in my head anyway.
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Post by Doom Girl on Mar 23, 2024 16:20:31 GMT
.....There will always be some kind of soundtrack in my head anyway. I fondly recall walking to school with the sound of A LOVE SUPREME playing in my head. I had listened to the record so many times that I could replay the entire album, anytime, anywhere I liked!
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Post by Rikki Nadir on Mar 24, 2024 1:26:21 GMT
dottorjazz, in answer to your question, I'm 64. I'm very pleased to hear you're interested in "the polyphony of 15th century". Me too. In fact, my classical collection is mostly Early Music. From early plainchant to late Baroque and all points between - sacred and secular works. Some classical fans collect multiple recordings of Beethoven symphonies. I collect multiple recordings of Gesualdo madrigals.
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Post by dottorjazz on Mar 24, 2024 9:06:01 GMT
thanks Rikki. while in Jazz listening I've never been interested in Voice, in Classical I've been hooked. not in Opera, which I think must be enjoyed in theater, but starting from Medieval Gregorian chant going through Lassus, Palestrina, De Victoria reaching the hights in JS Bach, and the whole world in between. Voice can build cathedrals of sound alone, is our heart that can understand and enjoy. thus my listening pleasure is now divided into two quite different worlds. if my Jazz hero is Trane, with Dolphy, Rollins, Evans, Monk, Parker (and on and on), my classical hero is Bach, remember how Bud Powell praised him. two different worlds, same satisfaction, no limits in opening your ears, mind and heart.
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Post by alunsevern on Apr 22, 2024 13:42:48 GMT
There was a period -- actually two periods: the late-70s/early-80s, and again in the early-2000s -- when I listened almost exclusively to classical music, dominated by early and baroque music and especially baroque keyboard music. But the strange thing is, I don't listen to jazz *and* classical at the same time (consecutively, I mean) for some reason. For instance, during the early covid period for reasons I still can't explain I simply couldn't listen to jazz and what little music I did listen to was almost exclusively Bach keyboard music (Gould and Hewitt especially).
Listening to classical music requires such a lot of dedicated listening time...
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Post by bassman on Apr 23, 2024 11:27:37 GMT
There was a period -- actually two periods: the late-70s/early-80s, and again in the early-2000s -- when I listened almost exclusively to classical music, dominated by early and baroque music and especially baroque keyboard music. But the strange thing is, I don't listen to jazz *and* classical at the same time (consecutively, I mean) for some reason. For instance, during the early covid period for reasons I still can't explain I simply couldn't listen to jazz and what little music I did listen to was almost exclusively Bach keyboard music (Gould and Hewitt especially). Listening to classical music requires such a lot of dedicated listening time... I've been listening "to jazz *and* classical at the same time" again lately, first time in years - Jacques Loussier! I know you - or was it dg? - gave up on him years ago, but the guy can be so damn slick nevertheless.
It also works the other way round. You may know this one:
Unfortunately, there is no audio file to be found anywhere. The Barclay version is good, but it's not what I mean.
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Post by alunsevern on Apr 23, 2024 13:36:20 GMT
^^^^ You're right, bassman, I did give up on Jacques Loussier -- but with some regret, I should add. In the late-60s a few friends and myself 'discovered' JL and adored his records. we probably only had three or four between us but we played them endlessly. In fact, I went to see him in concert in Birmingham (UK) at about that time and that in itself is remarkable because I have probably only been to a dozen or so gigs in my entire life. Anyway, many years later, the early-2000s, JL records were almost impossible to sell and could be picked up here and there for a couple of quid and I bought at least half-a-dozen. But when I listened, the magic had gone. I was left wondering what I had heard in these rather trite and stiff homages to JSB. it is curious how these things happen. I think the romance existed in finding these records when I was a teenager and feeling that what I was listening to was somehow a 'private' find... The fact that millions of people around the world clearly also loved the music of Jacques Loussier somehow eluded me. Oddly, I still love the covers of some of those JL records. The first three or four in their French Decca jackets were beautiful. But on the subject of Bach and jazz, I have been listening again to this: B-A-C-H, A Chromatic Universe: Peter Herbert
Peter Herbert (acoustic bass) <-- he is leader, composer and bassist, incidentally Ingrid Jensen (flugelhorn/trumpet) Carol Robinson (bass clarinet) Marc Copland (piano) Kenny Wollesen (drums/percussion) Really rather beautiful -- and all the more so because it is inspired by Bach rather than an attempt to ' swing' Bach...
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Post by bassman on Apr 23, 2024 14:31:07 GMT
[ ... ] Oddly, I still love the covers of some of those JL records. The first three or four in their French Decca jackets were beautiful. But on the subject of Bach and jazz, I have been listening again to this: B-A-C-H, A Chromatic Universe: Peter Herbert
[ ... ] So true, on both counts. I'm glad you dig my compatriot's music .
As for record covers and labels, I'm a sucker for German Brunswick pressings (cf. Bernard Peiffer EP).
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