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Post by gregorythefish on Apr 5, 2015 19:28:12 GMT
I have seen it! i love it. i've watched it several times. i don't know what draws me to it. honestly, i don't think i could eat there. i would need to go to mcdonald's to feel full afterwards! but it would be delightful. although now that you mention it, i would probably rather have the original blue notes.
you say you just can't do it because of meat? there is plenty of veggie sushi! a vegan friend of mine and i have sushi all the time and each leave feeling full and satisfied. although i suppose there isn't any of that at jiro's place.
well, at that place, i've had to accept that i will always miss out on something. i can have a stack of ten great deals and top-wanted items and there are twenty more out in the bins. i always try to fill gaps in the want list and such first, though. and get the best deals. john coltrane and johnny hartman original for $25, for example, is not about to be passed up!
anyhow, no recent purchases, but i did just take advantage of the offer of a local establishment to VPI clean some records for just a dollar each! i haven't gotten them home to play yet among the easter travel fray, but we will see how it goes.
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Post by Evan on Apr 6, 2015 6:22:07 GMT
I have seen it! i love it. i've watched it several times. i don't know what draws me to it. honestly, i don't think i could eat there. i would need to go to mcdonald's to feel full afterwards! but it would be delightful. although now that you mention it, i would probably rather have the original blue notes. you say you just can't do it because of meat? there is plenty of veggie sushi! a vegan friend of mine and i have sushi all the time and each leave feeling full and satisfied. although i suppose there isn't any of that at jiro's place. well, at that place, i've had to accept that i will always miss out on something. i can have a stack of ten great deals and top-wanted items and there are twenty more out in the bins. i always try to fill gaps in the want list and such first, though. and get the best deals. john coltrane and johnny hartman original for $25, for example, is not about to be passed up! anyhow, no recent purchases, but i did just take advantage of the offer of a local establishment to VPI clean some records for just a dollar each! i haven't gotten them home to play yet among the easter travel fray, but we will see how it goes. Sorry, I meant the fish and seafood sushi. I hear people talk about it and it's like listening to someone describe a religious experience. I eat veggie sushi from time to time, and I love it, but I do feel I'm missing out. I hear what you're saying about several good small deals vs. one or two big ones. The decisions we have to make! That Coltrane & Hartman album is beautiful. I have it too, though it's a reissue. I'm very jealous of that Ornette original on Contemporary. After your previous message I got the two records I have on Contemporary out - Art Pepper meets the Rhythm Section and Rollins' Way Out West. Though they're Japanese reissues the sound quality is absolutely incredible, particularly the Pepper one. The drums are crystal clear; I have original Blue Notes that don't sound as good. Gonna make it my business to chase down more. VPIs are to old records as _____ is to _____. I don't know what to insert in there but man, they are miracle workers. Every record I buy online gets a good seeing to by a VPI. Costs me a bit more (Y200) but it has a 100% record of improving the listening experience - sometimes massively so. Nothing recent here either - won't be buying a thing till payday - but I'll tell you about a purchase from last month, see if you drool: The Ray Draper Quintet feat. John Coltrane (original mono). I love the bassier instruments in jazz so hearing someone soloing on a tuba is great fun, it's just so weird. It's a great record, but I probably prefer his other album, which features Jackie McLean instead of Coltrane. I don't have that one though, unfortunately, except for on my iPod.
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Post by gregorythefish on Apr 6, 2015 15:18:45 GMT
ah, that makes sense. honestly, my favorite part is the wasabi. the texture of the fish rolls is nice but if i could only have veggie sushi i'd still be happy.
the ornette original was a risk. the description wasn't great but the price was very low and i figured i could return it if need be. it was an excellent score.
haven't listened to the VPI'd records yet but i am about to. that django 10" was one of them. it was mastered so quietly that any noise at all wrecks the listening. :/
that ray draper album is on the tip-top of my want list! i love coltrane, i love ray draper, i love new jazz as a label, and i keep missing out! i actually just also missed out on one of my last big impulse holes because of a bad ebay connection. but there will be other chances.
so yes, i'm drooling. i would love a copy of that record. enjoy!
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Post by Evan on Apr 8, 2015 9:04:43 GMT
Disappointed to hear the Django one is mastered quietly, that's a real pity. Hope the VPI does a job for you, enjoy your nice clean records!
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Post by gregorythefish on Apr 8, 2015 14:00:28 GMT
i haven't listened to all of them yet, but the django has definitely been brought back to life. it sounds so great!
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Post by Evan on Apr 9, 2015 4:02:47 GMT
Result! Magic machines those VPIs!
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Post by gregorythefish on Apr 24, 2015 22:25:53 GMT
I had a huge score today, for me, anyway.
My favorite local haunt put out a 3,000+ piece jazz collection last weekend. Given that I am moving soon and also changing jobs, I decided to stay away until this weekend, when the more reasonably-priced items would probably still be there. It must have been one hell of a collection, because I was able to walk away with two very nice NM original mono Blue Notes!
Not many folks like Jimmy Smith, but I increasingly find many of his outings enjoyable. "At Club Baby Grand, Vol. 2" was available for a nice price, on original Lexington labels, no less!
I also got another one by my main man: Horace Silver's "Horace-Scope". I love Horace, and I have several originals of his Blue Note output, all of which are outstandingly good.
I also bought a cha-cha dance album, but that's another story entirely. Haha.
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Post by DobermanBoston on Apr 25, 2015 20:01:25 GMT
Not many folks like Jimmy Smith, but I increasingly find many of his outings enjoyable. "At Club Baby Grand, Vol. 2" was available for a nice price, on original Lexington labels, no less! I LOVE Thornel Schwartz, who I first discovered via Jimmy Forrest's Prestige release Forrest Fire. And count me as a Jimmy Smith fan. One of my best friends is a Hammond organist, so I learned a lot about the lions of that instrument, as varied as Booker T and Smith and Larry Young, from him.
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Post by Martin on Apr 25, 2015 21:20:34 GMT
Today saw one of my infrequent visits to London and I took the opportunity to visit a shop South of the river that our benevolent host will know well. I scored the following:
Lee Morgan - The Gigolo Duke Pearson - The Right Touch Stanley Turrentine - Easy Walker
All Liberty stereo first pressings. The covers are a bit beat up but the vinyl looks NM.
Also Don Wilkerson - Elder Don. This one's a mono first pressing. Again, the cover has some flaws but the vinyl is in fine shape.
Last one is Harold Mabern - Rakin' and Scrapin', Prestige purple labels.
So plenty of listening for the coming weeks!
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Post by gregorythefish on Apr 27, 2015 14:37:21 GMT
those later covers which are just two pieces of cardboard pasted over on the spine never survive, sadly. esp-disk, later blue note, and occasionally prestige were very guilty of that. my NM copy of horace silver "song for my father" has a ruined spine and is splitting a lot.
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Post by Martin on Jun 25, 2015 11:27:49 GMT
I work in the centre of a large city in the West of England (shouldn't be hard to guess which one) and we're still lucky enough to have a few second hand record shops within walking distance so I sometimes visit them during my lunch break. To be honest, most of them stock little if any jazz so these visits are more in hope than expectation.
That changed yesterday...
I was in one of these shops thumbing through the crates when I happened to glance up at the sleeves displayed in plastic wallets on the wall. There right in front of me was the cover of the Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet "Live" LP. I'd always assumed these covers on the wall were for decoration only - you know, they've got old sleeves but the records are trashed or long since lost. But this was too important a sleeve to ignore, so I made my way to the counter and, as casually as I could manage, I enquired whether they actually had the record or not. Well, the answer was yes and would I like to see it? Would I ever!
So there I am with an original stereo Lansdowne Series near mint record with the right black labels and matrix numbers for a first pressing of this holy grail of 1960s British jazz in my hot little hand trying to appear nonchalant as I ask about the price. The guy behind the counter had to check a list and then phone the shop owner to confirm before giving me a figure. Hmmm, it was in the ballpark of what I expected but still more than I was prepared to pay. So I asked if he could keep it behind the counter while I did my other lunchtime errands. This, of course, was a ruse to give me thinking time and to check Popsike.
Checks done, thinking done, negotiating strategy decided, I returned half an hour later. Some further discussion and a second phone call to the shop owner, a satisfactory deal was struck and I walked away with my prize and an enormous smile.
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Post by gregorythefish on Jun 25, 2015 21:24:31 GMT
congrats, martin! i have felt that way a few times. ain't it great!
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Post by Evan on Jun 26, 2015 12:15:35 GMT
I love hearing stories like this. Well played!
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Post by Martin on Sept 13, 2015 11:15:55 GMT
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Post by gregorythefish on Sept 13, 2015 19:26:45 GMT
recent purchase: original mono of hank mobley's "turnaround". highly recommended.
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