Oldest CD in your collection

[Jim R]

I didn't buy a CD player until 1990. Had too much invested in vinyl...

Same here. I remember what player I bought, because I still have it (Sony CDP-C705, 5-disc carousel). However, I have very little memory of which CD's I bought first. I'm pretty sure there were a few Miles OJC titles in there... Dexter's "Our Man In Paris" was an early purchase... oh shit, I probably went crazy buying Bird, Monk, Trane, Wes, etc etc etc... I shudder to think about how much money I was spending (probably before I had a lot of cash flow from LP sales )

[Adam]

My first CD was The Waterboy's - Fisherman's Blues. I thought I bought it in 86 or 87, but I just looked at it (still have it of course) and teh date on it is 88. I didn't own a CD player until late 89 or 90, but I bought that CD in 88 and transferred it to cassette using a friend's CD player.

I do remember that a few other early ones were the Jimi Hendrix Live at Winterland shown earlier, Mano Negra - Puta's Fever; Les Negresses Vertes - Mlah.

[BeBop]

In late 1981 or early 1982, I got a test CD for listening evaluation of the upcoming Sony CDP-101 – the first real, production CD player.

I hereby apologize for not somehow pulling the plug on the whole (early) digital phenomenon before it reached a reasonable level of sonic maturity. But against the Sony/Phillips colossus…

I bet that CD sounds horrid now, just as it did then, but in starker relief against the modern background.

[medjuck]

Oldest I can find is Roach/Brown "Study in Brown". Manufactured in Germany. No date on it. Probably about '84. Picked it up free from an office in Warner Brothers where I was working on a laser disc project (which eventually became Criterion). I also got the Koln Concert but traded it for a later edition because the first one didn't have the coda.

[Brownian Motion]

I didn't buy a CD player until January 1989. At the time I was living in the Pennsylvania sticks, and there was very little in the way of interesting music available on CD. My first CD purchases were both used--Volume I of the Quintessential Billie Holliday, and, to test the sonic capabilities of digital playback, the Rounder Guitar Album.

Still got them.

[mikeweil]

I've been wrecking my brains but cannot remember the first CDs I bought - it was jazz, that's for certain. (I'm a bit surprised how many here bought rock and pop before jazz on CD ....) I do remember the first player, a Philips, and the first item I bought on ebay (Brahms' 1st Symphony conducted by Roger Norrington), but not the first CD ...... strange. My first three LPs back in 1968 were rock, though - Paul Revere & The Raiders, Cream, Pink Floyd. Then it was the Modern jazz Quartet, Herbie Mann, and Cannonball Adderley.

[Christiern]

I've been wrecking my brains but cannot remember the first CDs I bought - it was jazz, that's for certain. (I'm a bit surprised how many here bought rock and pop before jazz on CD ....) I do remember the first player, a Philips, and the first item I bought on ebay (Brahms' 1st Symphony conducted by Roger Norrington), but not the first CD ...... strange. My first three LPs back in 1968 were rock, though - Paul Revere & The Raiders, Cream, Pink Floyd. Then it was the Modern jazz Quartet, Herbie Mann, and Cannonball Adderley.

You shouldn't have wrecked your brains (how many have you?)--I hope they can be repaired. If so, may I suggest that you wrack them (or the main one) to see if your original CD purchase comes to mind?

Sorry, that word used to confuse me, too.

Edited May 28, 2006 by Christiern

[mikeweil]

After consulting my dictionary I understand that (w)racking can be as painful as wrecking; both didn't lead me to the oldest CD, but I'm alive and well.

[P.L.M]

I'm another one of those who tried to stick to vinyls but had to give up when the record stores aliminated their vinyl sections. Gave up the fight in the late '80s.

Same here.

First CD was ART PEPPER WITH WARNE MARSH (CONTEMPORARY, FRENCH PRESSING BY CARRERE)

A "pure" AAD that I still have.

Bought because it was the first edition of the complete (10 takes with three alternates) session from whom only four titles have been previously published on the LP, THE WAY IT WAS (that I Still have, also).

That was around 1989.

[BruceH]

I held off getting a CD player until 1992. At this late date, I can't really remember which CD was my first...

[paul secor]

I'm pretty sure that it was Duke Ellington: All Star Road Band (Doctor Jazz/King Japan). I know that I bought it in '86, shortly before I bought a CD player.

[Peter Friedman]

I bought my first CD player in 1984. There were very few jazz CDs available at the time. Almost all were imports from Japan or Europe. The first 2 jazz CDs I recall buying were:

Don Menza & His '80's Big Band - RealTime

Oscar Peterson Trio - Tristeza On Piano - MPS

I still have both of them.

[JohnJ]

Started buying CDs in 1984. Selection was very poor and they were expensive at 3,500 Yen (around $30 at current exchange rates). Can't remember the first, maybe "Silk Degrees" by Boz Scaggs. Still plays fine and I still love that CD.

[spinlps]

My P's gave me a CD Player for my 16th or 17th birthday... I promptly when out and bought the Imagine: John Lennon soundtrack and Joy Division's Substance best of... hard to believe that was almost 20 years ago...

[montg]

I bought my first CD player with some wedding money when we got married in 1990. I don't remember for sure the first CD I bought, though Bob Dylan's 'Oh Mercy" was surely among the first.

My first jazz CD, which I still have and which was a perfect introduction to the music, was actually one of those dreaded Verve compilations, purchased in 1995

Edited June 3, 2006 by montg

[Guy Berger]

[scottb]

Around this time in 1988. I got a CD player for high school graduation and brought this home with it.

The next day went back for The White Album and another Beatles title I can't remember which.

[LAL]

Beatles' Abbey Road bought mid 1990.

[CJ Shearn]

oldest CD: probably Count Basie Jam at Montreux '75, which is from 1987. when I started really collecting things on CD, this is one of the first things I got, tho I did not own it on LP, this was maybe '93 or 94. JOS' "The Master" would qualify also,have had that since it came out.

[Chuck Nessa]

This was my first cd - 1984. It's an outstanding collection and still plays fine.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

my first one ... had it on vinyl and the sound was so stunning that i figured the CD was a ringer. had just seen Joe in Chicago at Rick's Cafe so I was on the hunt. i do remember having a time trying to figure out how to open a jewel case!

[Jazzmoose]

First one was when I tried to give this here 'jazz' stuff a try. Something called "My Favorite Things" by a John Cortrain, or something like that. Anyone ever hear of it?

[Big Al]

First one was when I tried to give this here 'jazz' stuff a try. Something called "My Favorite Things" by a John Cortrain, or something like that. Anyone ever hear of it?

Dude, whattya think this is, a JAZZ Bored or something? Sheesh.....

[Free For All]

"My Favorite Things" by John Cortrain

Japanese version?

[Jazzmoose]

Japanese version?