mikeweil Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Do you remember the first jazz LP you ever bought, or two, or three, and perhaps when? My first: a mono copy of the Modern Jazz Quartet's European Concert, Vol. 1 dtto. mono of Do The Bossa Nova With Herbie Mann some European issue of Cannonball's Bossa Nova Must have been between 1970 and 1972. Quote
brownie Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Autumn 1952. First record was a Decca 10-incher of Louis Armstrong and his All Stars. The album included 'New Orleans Function'. Did not realize at the time I'ld still been hooked bad on that music more than half a century later. Second record was a Count Basie 12-incher will all the great Decca sides. Which is when I caught the Prez fever from which I have not recovered yet. Quote
tonym Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 After skimming a reference book in a store I went around the corner to choose something I recognised in the 'Modern'/ 'Avant Garde' genre. I found Ornette's 'Something Else'. Bitten, a few days later I was in my local secondhand store (mainly rock/indie due to the local student population) and there I found 'Out to Lunch' by Dolphy. At the time, and I've heard this said quite recently, I didn't even realise this was regarded as a demanding record. Quote
Claude Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Pat Metheny Group - Travels This must have been in 1984, when I was 16 years old. I played it over and over again, and bought in on CD later. Quote
Sundog Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Les McCann & Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement Still like this one today. Quote
couw Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 I only started buying in the CD era, my first album was supposed to be Out to Lunch, but the shop didn't have it so I got Out There. I bought Out to Lunch a little later. Quote
Peter Johnson Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 First pressing deep groove Blue Train for ten bucks. I thought the cover looked cool. Little did I know! Summer 1997. Quote
vibes Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Spring, 2003 - Someone posts a link for a cheap buy-it-now auction for Tyrone Washington's "Natural Essence" on eBay. Vibes, so excited that he's going to pee his pants, clicks on the link and wins the auction. A few days later, a god damned LP shows up. I don't have a turntable and don't plan buying one. Anyone want to buy a sealed Japanese pressing of this album? Quote
Claude Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 (edited) As Mike hasn't posted this thread in the vinyl forum, I suppose one is allowed to name the first jazz album bought, be it on LP, CD, 10inch record or 8-track. No generation should be discriminated Edited January 9, 2004 by Claude Quote
Jazz Groove Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 The fist for me was the Wes Montgomery Trio. I believe I was 10 at the time. He got me to want to play guitar, Never came close to his skills though. Quote
PHILLYQ Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 1971, Mahavishnu Orchestra, 'The Inner Mounting Flame'. This led to buying Miles' 'LIve/Evil' soon after because McLaughlin was on it. Over thirty years later and I still dig Miles and now so many other great players that I discovered through Miles and his sidemen(& their sidemen). Quote
Alexander Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 First jazz album I HAD was a second generation dub of the "Stan Getz & Bill Evans" album on Verve, which I got off a friend. The first jazz album I PURCHASED was a cassette copy of "My Favorite Things," purchased at Tower Records on the corner of Newbury and Mass. Ave. in Boston during the spring of 1992. Quote
Man with the Golden Arm Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 (edited) With my own money at the Giant Tiger. Boy they had a great lp section right over by the stretch pants. Not really jazz but a first.- The first jazz album, before it was "smoov' jazz".- ...and Alexander, there is a lot of dough out of my pocket at the same time in that old Tower Records (now Virgin) you speak of. Edited January 9, 2004 by Man with the Golden Arm Quote
BeBop Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Dave Brubeck Quartet on Crown. Right on, Crown Records. My first jazz LP was a Crown. It was presumably, Stan Getz, whom, as a kid sax-player, I had at least heard of. Alas, I never found another Getz record that I liked as much. Then, revelation. Turns out it was actually Wardell Gray on that record. And I have ever since been a Gray-hound. Quote
Noj Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 The first jazz CD I bought was John Coltrane GIANT STEPS. It was also the first jazz I listened to and liked. A little while later Horace Silver's SONG FOR MY FATHER cemented the deal--I was officially hooked. That was around 1992. Little did I know at the time just how much great jazz there is out there, more than there are hours of life to live... Quote
JSngry Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Dave Brubeck Quartet on Crown. Right on, Crown Records. My first jazz LP was a Crown. It was presumably, Stan Getz, whom, as a kid sax-player, I had at least heard of. Alas, I never found another Getz record that I liked as much. Then, revelation. Turns out it was actually Wardell Gray on that record. And I have ever since been a Gray-hound. Was it the one that had a picture of Getz obviously taken from a TV screen? I got that one too. There was a Firestone store in my hometown that sold records, and Crown was a staple of their selection, although that's alos where I got my Woody Herman HEAVY EXPOSURE Lp. I'd like to know who the jobber was who handled that account! Quote
chuckyd4 Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 I only started buying in the CD era, my first album was supposed to be Out to Lunch, but the shop didn't have it so I got Out There. I bought Out to Lunch a little later. couw - I was curious.... what'd you mean your first album was "supposed" to be Out to Lunch? You mean you were planning on buying it on the recommendation of a friend, or something much more nefarious? Quote
Jim R Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Les McCann & Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement That was probably the first one I heard, but it belonged to a friend's older brother, who also had: I'm not sure it was my first, but I was inspired to buy this: The one that really got me started, though (about five years later) was: Quote
couw Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 I wanted to buy Out to Lunch because I had read about it in The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play (a book on Zappa). Also because Straight Up and Down was featured as the opening tune to a television series I liked to watch. Quote
Late Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 November, 1986. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A store called either Sweet Thunder or Sweet Lightning. (Can't remember which now.) I was 16. Tenor Madness Quote
medjuck Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 When the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert appeared on the relatively-new format of LP, I bought it. Also, Armstrong Plays Handy (around 1955). Ditto on Goodman. Then Ambassador Satch and Brubeck's Red, Hot and Cool. Joined Columbia Record club's jazz division and got within one year (I think) KOB, Ellington Indigos, Hampton's Silver Vibes, and JJ Johnson Blue Trombone. Also got Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker. A very good year. Quote
chris olivarez Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 It was either Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" or Pharoah Sanders "Jewels Of Thought". Quote
BeBop Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 Was it the one that had a picture of Getz obviously taken from a TV screen? I got that one too. There was a Firestone store in my hometown that sold records, and Crown was a staple of their selection, although that's alos where I got my Woody Herman HEAVY EXPOSURE Lp. I'd like to know who the jobber was who handled that account! Yep, that's the one. I picked up my copy of Heavy Exposure (and Jazz Hoot) not long after. Them's what we refers to as "my formative years". Quote
mikeweil Posted January 10, 2004 Author Report Posted January 10, 2004 No generation should be discriminated Better not - that I didn't even consider there may be board members starting jazz in the post-LP era shows my age! Or we start as "first CD" thread Quote
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