Blue Note Collection

[jbs-tom]

let us all know your number of blue note lps in your collection and the ones you are most proud of !

(excluding japanese pressings, french reissues and blueblack reissues)

ok i start:

about 80+ with personal highlights like duke pearson tender feelings, hank mobley soul station and grant green idle moments

[clifford_thornton]

I think I'm at about 125 last time I checked.

Kenny Cox - Multidirection is the newest BN addition; I've lately begun to appreciate a lot of the upper 4200s and lower 4300s.

For some reason, though it's certainly by no means his best recording, the J.R. Monterose gets under my skin a little bit. I also pull out Blues in Trinity quite often, also True Blue and of course tear into the Jackie McLeans a lot too. I need more Horace Parlan, that is for sure...

Apologies, but I'm going to have to include Japanese and '70s pressings, as they fill out the catalog in a way that otherwise I couldn't participate. I do have a lot of NY originals, too, but I'm not as picky about BN pressings as I am about other labels.

[Hot Ptah]

125,223

[jbs-tom]

  Hot Ptah said:

125,223

that means ??

[clifford_thornton]

I'm guessing LPs vs. CDs.

[(BB)]

SONNY CLARK - COOL STRUTTIN`

It's 'NM- (although if played with reversed polarity it sounds NM)

Deep-groove flat edge ORIGINAL King pressing with a Lexington label on the A side and a 47 W. 63rd label on the B.

And of course RVG in the dead wax.

Other than that mostly dmm pressings.

[jbs-tom]

  clifford_thornton said:

I think I'm at about 125 last time I checked.

Kenny Cox - Multidirection is the newest BN addition; I've lately begun to appreciate a lot of the upper 4200s and lower 4300s.

For some reason, though it's certainly by no means his best recording, the J.R. Monterose gets under my skin a little bit. I also pull out Blues in Trinity quite often, also True Blue and of course tear into the Jackie McLeans a lot too. I need more Horace Parlan, that is for sure...

Apologies, but I'm going to have to include Japanese and '70s pressings, as they fill out the catalog in a way that otherwise I couldn't participate. I do have a lot of NY originals, too, but I'm not as picky about BN pressings as I am about other labels.

i am not too far away to get that album hopefully (blues in trinity)

have the jap pressing at the moment only - but its a wonderful jazz record

[brownie]

I have been a faithful member of the BN Church from the day I was converted when I purchased my first album (The Amazing Bud Powell,vol. 1) back in the late '50s.

I have remained faithful through the Lion/Wolff BN/UA/Liberty era! I have turned away since

I have all of these albums with the exception of that damn Urbie Green 10incher that has eluded the various searches I have made!

Most treasured items are those early vinyls with the Lexington adresses. Beautiful sounding and looking albums that have withstood the test of time after multiple playings!

[Hot Ptah]

  jbs-tom said:

  Hot Ptah said:

125,223

that means ??

I have one hundred twenty five thousand two hundred twenty three Blue Note recordings.

[clifford_thornton]

Well, I suppose if you counted ALL the flatted fifths...

[clifford_thornton]

  (BB) said:

SONNY CLARK - COOL STRUTTIN`

It's 'NM- (although if played with reversed polarity it sounds NM)

Deep-groove flat edge ORIGINAL King pressing with a Lexington label on the A side and a 47 W. 63rd label on the B.

And of course RVG in the dead wax.

Other than that mostly dmm pressings.

[JSngry]

  Hot Ptah said:

  jbs-tom said:

  Hot Ptah said:

125,223

that means ??

I have one hundred twenty five thousand two hundred twenty three Blue Note recordings.

I can vouch for that. He bought all my triples-and-above.

[sidewinder]

  clifford_thornton said:

  (BB) said:

SONNY CLARK - COOL STRUTTIN`

It's 'NM- (although if played with reversed polarity it sounds NM)

Deep-groove flat edge ORIGINAL King pressing with a Lexington label on the A side and a 47 W. 63rd label on the B.

And of course RVG in the dead wax.

Other than that mostly dmm pressings.

'Division of Liberty Records Inc.' on the back cover?

[sidewinder]

  brownie said:

I have all of these albums ...

[Niko]

  sidewinder said:

  brownie said:

I have all of these albums ...

if this a correct way of quoting, i don't know... (to brownie it will make a difference, i suppose)

[Hot Ptah]

  clifford_thornton said:

Well, I suppose if you counted ALL the flatted fifths...

Well, since the ultimate point of the thread is to impress everyone with the vastness of your collection, I won! It is a slightly sarcastic comment on the nature of a thread like this.

[(BB)]

  sidewinder said:

  clifford_thornton said:

  (BB) said:

SONNY CLARK - COOL STRUTTIN`

It's 'NM- (although if played with reversed polarity it sounds NM)

Deep-groove flat edge ORIGINAL King pressing with a Lexington label on the A side and a 47 W. 63rd label on the B.

And of course RVG in the dead wax.

Other than that mostly dmm pressings.

'Division of Liberty Records Inc.' on the back cover?

It may say that on the obi but my japanese is not so good.

[clifford_thornton]

  Hot Ptah said:

  clifford_thornton said:

Well, I suppose if you counted ALL the flatted fifths...

Well, since the ultimate point of the thread is to impress everyone with the vastness of your collection, I won! It is a slightly sarcastic comment on the nature of a thread like this.

I got it.

I'll take my two Heavy Soul Music (label) LPs over any of my BNs any day, however.

[jbs-tom]

  Hot Ptah said:

  clifford_thornton said:

Well, I suppose if you counted ALL the flatted fifths...

Well, since the ultimate point of the thread is to impress everyone with the vastness of your collection, I won! It is a slightly sarcastic comment on the nature of a thread like this.

quantity does not equal quality

ps: ... but brownies collection seems to be unbeatable in both categories

Edited November 15, 2006 by jbs-tom

[clifford_thornton]

Where's Chuck with one of his "size" jokes?

[brownie]

OK! OK! Mine's bigger -_-

I started getting those vinyls nearly half a century ago.

Did not count but there must be something like over 300 of them!

[Teasing the Korean]

New Rule: They've got to be mono or they don't count.

[JSngry]

Newer rule: They've gotta be 78s or they don't count.

[michel1969]

My original BLP's (DG lex, ny23, 47w, nyc, etc... in order of appearance...)

5065, 5066, 1519, 1524,1526 (2nd), 1533, 1538, 1541(2nd), 1542(2nd) 1544, 1545, 1562(2nd), 1577(2nd), 1581,1590, 1595, 4003(2nd), 4007, 4013, 4015(2nd), 4019, 4023, 4026, 4031, 4034, 4038, 4039, 4041, 4047, 4048, 4049, 4058, 4063, 4064, 4068, 4069, 4073, 4080, 4084, 4086, 4087, 4090, 4092, 4101, 4104, 4106, 4107, 4109, 4112, 4115, 4117, 4118, 4121, 4123, 4126, 4127, 4132, 4137, 4139, 4144, 4147, 4148, 4149, 4151, 4153, 4154, 4156, 4157, 4159, 4161, 4163, 4165, 4166, 4167, 4172, 4173, 4175, 4179, 4180, 4181, 4182, 4183, 4184, 4186,4189,4191,4193,4194, 4195 4198, 4199,4202, 4203, 4205, 4206, 4209, 4212, 4213, 4215, 4216, 4218, 4219, 4221, 4222,4226, 4227, 4230, 4231, 4237, 4238, 4242, 4244, 4245, 4247, 4249, 4252, 4253, 4257, 4259, 4260, 4262, 4264, 4266, 4273, 4278, 4279, 4280, 4283, 4284, 4288, 4291, 4293, 4303. That's all.

[Teasing the Korean]

  JSngry said:

Newer rule: They've gotta be 78s or they don't count.

But if you have any of the three Blue Note 78s that were released in stereo, we'll count those. And if you have all three we'll count them as 4!