Recommendations: Jazz Vinyl Stores in Los Angeles

[undergroundagent]

Hey everyone!

It's been a good long time since I last posted. but I know this is still one of the best resources for jazz on the net. I'm visiting Los Angeles and Southern California in a few weeks and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for stores to buy vintage jazz vinyl?

Any insights would be appreciated!

[colinmce]

I was just there last week and made the rounds to a number of stores. For jazz vinyl, I found Atomic and Freakbeat to be the best (as I was leaving Atomic I saw someone had just dropped off a majorly heavy free jazz collection, but they yelled at me not to flip through it haha). Amoeba's jazz vinyl selection was nice too, but it's a much bigger store and was a bit diluted.

Though you didn't ask, for the record in terms of jazz CDs, Amoeba was just incredible. Freakbeat had a much smaller section but the quality was high and prices were low. 

I found Pooh Bah and Canterbury (both in Pasadena) to be very poor for jazz in both formats. Jacknife was also not good at all imo. 

[B. Clugston]

Record Surplus in Santa Monica is a good spot.