The most bizarre place you bought Jazz in

[Clunky]

last summer at a farmers market in Provence ( France) I picked up first edition pressings of Art Blakey Vol. 1 ( at Club St Germain) and Lou Bennet- Amen both on RCA France in NM condition and only 8 euro each. I was pleased.

[mikeweil]

Hmmm ... odd stores, but bizarre? Garage sales, flea markets - quite normal, methinks.

Where's the real bizarre places?

[neveronfriday]

Hmmm ... odd stores, but bizarre? Garage sales, flea markets - quite normal, methinks.

Where's the real bizarre places?

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Youre right of course. So far the posts indicate that many people think that finding good jazz in odd places is already bizarre.

I'll add this one then. I once bought a Dave Brubeck LP off a Dominatrix (is that the word?) in her studio. And no, I was not a customer there. I also refrained from asking what she had used the LP for or under which circumstances it was played, but the LP was in mint condition, so ...

Last year I saw that she's still in business. She must be in her middle/end 60s now. Talking about dedication ...

Edited July 1, 2005 by neveronfriday

[mikeweil]

Now that was bizarre ...

[Dig'Em]

I picked up an LP of Art Blakey ('Hold On, I'm Coming' or some such thing) from a guy pushing a cart in Tajikistan. Also bought a 'souvenir' copy of some Louis Armstrong (notes in Cyrillic) from a Siberian flea market...along with some old Russian Army medals. Finally, bought a jazz 'comp' CD (obvious bootleg) on the streets of Hanoi, circa 1985.

[Dig'Em]

Incidentally, I think the Blakey is on red or yellow vinyl. (It's presently 6000 miles away.)

[Adam]

I picked up an LP by Air (Air Lore or Air Time - I'm blanking and I don't feel like getting up) at a thrift store in Ogden Utah for 25 cents. Every other LP was typical beat-up pablum, but this one was in excellent shape.

[Kalo]

Seems to me that Starbuck's is a pretty bizarre place to buy music in. Or other chains like Putamayo or Victoria's Secret.

Never done it myself, but lots of folks do...

[clifford_thornton]

A friend of mine was in Belgium in the mid-'90s on a road trip, and was getting gas at a gas station. This gas station happened to have a small book-and-record shelf in it, and in the rack he found the Alan Silva solo LP on Center of the World. Unfortunately, he didn't have any Belgian currency and couldn't buy it - it would have amounted to like $5 US at the time. Bizarre, to say the least.

[Dan Gould]

A friend of mine was in Belgium in the mid-'90s on a road trip, and was getting gas at a gas station. This gas station happened to have a small book-and-record shelf in it, and in the rack he found the Alan Silva solo LP on Center of the World. Unfortunately, he didn't have any Belgian currency and couldn't buy it - it would have amounted to like $5 US at the time. Bizarre, to say the least.

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Uh, then how come he was able to buy gas at the same station? Did they take a different currency for gasoline?

[47 West 63rd N.Y.C.]

Last year, I bought a jazz CD in, of all places, a middle-eastern restaurant on the Northside

of Chicago by a local trumpeter by the name of Yves Francois (nee Yves Smierciak).

[Jazz Kat]

Macy's Closeout City.

[clifford_thornton]

A friend of mine was in Belgium in the mid-'90s on a road trip, and was getting gas at a gas station. This gas station happened to have a small book-and-record shelf in it, and in the rack he found the Alan Silva solo LP on Center of the World. Unfortunately, he didn't have any Belgian currency and couldn't buy it - it would have amounted to like $5 US at the time. Bizarre, to say the least.

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Uh, then how come he was able to buy gas at the same station? Did they take a different currency for gasoline?

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Good question - I'd assume that he was not the one buying the gas in the first place. Knowing him, he probably only had a credit card.

Edited July 3, 2005 by clifford_thornton