Geographical distribution of your jazz collection

[A Lark Ascending]

Off topic: Bev, is your current profile picture from Avebury?

It is indeed...one of my favourite places. And, unlike Stonehenge, free and rarely crowded.

I spent a wonderful day in Avebury about 14 years ago. That part of England is one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Indeed! From Wiltshire to Cornwall is my heaven.

[A Lark Ascending]

No basements in the UK...just cellars. I don't have one...I'd probably run into old mine workings if I tried to dig one.

All irrelevant anyway. We'll soon be storing everything on our external hard drives. Or one of those 'cloud' things people talk about but I don't understand.

[JohnS]

At a guess I'd say that better than 95% my collection is by US born or based musicians.

[king ubu]

Andorra: 99.5%

Nessa: 0.5%

[mellowT]

For the jazz I do a simple set of columns:

• performer
  
• album title
  
• recording date
  
• date I bought it
  
• format (CD/LP/CD-R)
  
• no. discs
  
• nationality
  

I have different sheets for classical, rock, folk, MOR, Latin, World, Scandinavian (folk), country, Brazilian.

Sounds like a good exercise to do for insurance purposes as well.

[A Lark Ascending]

For the jazz I do a simple set of columns:

• performer
  
• album title
  
• recording date
  
• date I bought it
  
• format (CD/LP/CD-R)
  
• no. discs
  
• nationality
  

I have different sheets for classical, rock, folk, MOR, Latin, World, Scandinavian (folk), country, Brazilian.

Sounds like a good exercise to do for insurance purposes as well.

That was why I did it originally - so if things got stolen or washed away by a tidal wave (very common in central England) I'd know what needed replacing.

It's also a quick reference if I'm not sure if I have a particular recording.

[BillF]

My collection is about 98% jazz and, of that, about 99% is American.

[porcy62]

San Marino: 89%

Australia: 3%

Rest unkown

For fiscal reasons, isn't it?

You, tax-dodger.

[papsrus]

We're supposed to be paying taxes on this stuff?!?

[porcy62]

Actually it was a joke. San Marino is a sort of Cayman Island for Italy: obscure banks, tons of strange companies, so when RC wrote about San Marino I presumed he got 89 per cent of its collection from this: a tax dodger's paradise.

[Claude]

After the US (probably more than 90%), the countries best represented in my jazz collection would be Germany, France, UK and Italy, in that order.

Edited August 30, 2009 by Claude

[papsrus]

Actually it was a joke. San Marino is a sort of Cayman Island for Italy: obscure banks, tons of strange companies, so when RC wrote about San Marino I presumed he got 89 per cent of its collection from this: a tax dodger's paradise.

Me too. Kind of a joke. But we don't actually pay taxes on any discs purchased over the internets, right? I don't think I ever have.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Here's mine

USA 77.64

SENEGAL 8.73

GUINEE CONAKRY 3.94

MALI 2.76

JAMAICA 1.69

SOUTH AFRICA 1.13

CUBA 0.89

NIGERIA 0.60

GAMBIA 0.45

UK 0.39

COTE D'IVOIRE 0.33

GHANA 0.17

SPAIN 0.17

CABO VERDE 0.16

HOLLAND 0.14

BRAZIL 0.10

HAITI 0.10

JAPAN 0.08

SIERRA LEONE 0.08

CAMEROON 0.06

FRANCE 0.06

MEXICO 0.06

NAMIBIA 0.06

BENIN 0.04

D R CONGO 0.04

BERMUDA 0.02

CANADA 0.02

GERMANY 0.02

MOROCCO 0.02

NIGER 0.02

SWITZERLAND 0.02

TURKEY 0.02

VENEZUELA 0.02

Based on the nationality of the artists.

So that's

USA 77.64

Africa 18.55

Rest 3.81

MG

[Teasing the Korean]

Haven't done a formal analysis, but I'm guessing US first, Brazil second, Italy third, France fourth.

Not sure quite how to categorize all the latin jazz and exotica.

Edited September 26, 2009 by Teasing the Korean

[A Lark Ascending]

Here's mine

USA 77.64

SENEGAL 8.73

GUINEE CONAKRY 3.94

MALI 2.76

JAMAICA 1.69

SOUTH AFRICA 1.13

CUBA 0.89

NIGERIA 0.60

GAMBIA 0.45

UK 0.39

COTE D'IVOIRE 0.33

GHANA 0.17

SPAIN 0.17

CABO VERDE 0.16

HOLLAND 0.14

BRAZIL 0.10

HAITI 0.10

JAPAN 0.08

SIERRA LEONE 0.08

CAMEROON 0.06

FRANCE 0.06

MEXICO 0.06

NAMIBIA 0.06

BENIN 0.04

D R CONGO 0.04

BERMUDA 0.02

CANADA 0.02

GERMANY 0.02

MOROCCO 0.02

NIGER 0.02

SWITZERLAND 0.02

TURKEY 0.02

VENEZUELA 0.02

What? No Zambia?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

What? No Zambia?

Nope. Apart from South African Township jazz (which is rather different to all other kinds of African music), I've almost nothing from any of the Bantu-speaking nations. They've always struck me as being insufficiently rhythmically complex. But that may just be the ubiquitous influence of Congolese Rhumba throughout those countries.

MG

[aparxa]

What? No Zambia?

Nope. Apart from South African Township jazz (which is rather different to all other kinds of African music), I've almost nothing from any of the Bantu-speaking nations. They've always struck me as being insufficiently rhythmically complex. But that may just be the ubiquitous influence of Congolese Rhumba throughout those countries.

MG

No per mille of Zimbabwe ??

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Glasgow 10%

Friends 9%

With me 1%