What music did you buy today?

[sidewinder]

Pete LaRoca 'Basra' RVG CD - for a fiver ! About time I had this on CD.

I bought this recently as well, sounds good, a bit different than the Japanese version.

The only drawback with this issue is that it is Copy Controlled. My CD player has had 'the op' so that it can deal with these though without skipping, so I'm happy to buy them.

[jazzbo]

Got the Miles Bitches Brew Anniversary set today (from amazon) - looks GREAT!

Only thing that's a drag: you almost have to damage the foldout (vinyl size) that holds the CDs on one side. I got them all out without doing too much damage, but won't got back in there!

It is indeed great !

The innards of my box were damaged on one corner though (box fine) so a replacement is on its way. And as you say, those CDs are an absolute pain to replace in their 'slots'.

Glad I'm not alone there... mine arrived in fine condition, luckily. The box was flimsy and huge (almost as our beloved boxes from zweitausendeins back in the day when they had these amazing ZYX/Fantasy offers) but inside, everything was ok.

I don't often complain about silly packaging, I can handle most of it (ok, my fingers get rusty from the Bill Evans Verve box, too - but I like the idea of the rusty box a lot) but this here is just silly! If it's a bit of a drag to get discs out and back in with some boxed sets, that's one thing, but if you're afraid of breaking a disc just to get it out, that's more than annoying!

I took the discs out and put them in a four-banger, even made artwork. Much easier to get to all around.

[papsrus]

Happy Rhythm: New York Columbia Recordings, Vol. 1

Rhythmic Eight -- "48 of the Best 48: 1927-1930"

Fess Williams -- "Pre-Victors the Complete Set 1925-1927"

Preservation Hall Jazz Band -- "Marching Down Bourbon Street"

Preservation Hall Jazz Band -- "New Orleans 1"

Get Easy Blues

[mikeweil]

Haven't been buying any jazz for months, but yesterday I couldn't resist:

Just as I thought it would be, it's a gas! Boland's treatments of these standard tunes are gorgeous ...

I like it that they added the two tracks recorded under Kessel's leadership 'cause Benny fell ill - they swing so much it's hard to believe. They don't swing like that any more ...

[jlhoots]

One of those 'one thing led to another' purchases, ordered earlier tonight:

Sam Charters' Washboard Jazz Band -- "New Orleans Jazz"

I know the artist who did the cover, Earl Linderman.

I own 2 of his paintings.

Bought the new Roscoe Mitchell & Michael Formanek ECM CDs.

[paul secor]

Fletcher Henderson: Yeah Man! (Hep)

Jimmy Giuffre: The Easy way (Verve)

Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisers (BN RVG)

[mikelz777]

I was in the mood for some '70's Springsteen and was surprised to find that I only had "Darkness On The Edge Of Town". I'd forgotten that the others were in album form and I'd sold them years ago. Time to remedy that.

Greetings From Asbury Park

The Wild The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle

Born To Run (30th Anniversary CD/2-DVD)

[kh1958]

Miles Davis Seven Steps to Heaven box set for $20.

[JohnJ]

Miles Davis Seven Steps to Heaven box set for $20.

Great price for a great box!

Bought a used copy of the big LP sized box Thelonious Monk Complete Riverside Recordings (15 CD's).

Price was 8,000 yen which is a bit below $100.

[BillF]

Shorty Rogers/André Previn, Collaboration (RCA Victor)

Thanks to Teasing the Korean and Larry Kart for bringing this to my attention.

[AndrewHill]

Ginormous used cd haul throughout town:

Jimmy Smith-Open House/Plain Talk-BN

Oliver Nelson-Blues and the Abstract Truth-Impulse! (long overdue)

Ornette Coleman Sound Museum-Hidden Man-Verve/Harmolodic

Three Sounds-Live at the Lighthouse-BN

Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. I-Savoy Jazz

The five dollar bin, though is where some real great stufff showed up:

Charlie Parker-Bird in Boston 1952-53-Vol. I-Fresh Sound Records

Charlie Parker-Bird in Boston 1952-53-Vol. II-Fresh Sound Records

Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. II-Savoy Jazz

Sonny Criss Orchestra-Sonny's Dream-Prestige/OJC

and the $2.50 bin wasn't too bad either:

Johnny Griffin and Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quintet-Tough Tenors-Jazzland/OJC

Peter Brotzmann/Bill Laswell-Low Life-Celluloid

Jon Madof-Rashanim-Tzadik

[papsrus]

One of those 'one thing led to another' purchases, ordered earlier tonight:

Sam Charters' Washboard Jazz Band -- "New Orleans Jazz"

I know the artist who did the cover, Earl Linderman.

I own 2 of his paintings.

Bought the new Roscoe Mitchell & Michael Formanek ECM CDs.

Very cool. I love the cover art. Nice album, too!

Ordered over the past couple of weeks or so:

1. Fletcher Henderson -- Tidal Wave

2. Freddie Keppard -- 1923 - 1926

3. Clarence Williams -- vol. 1 1923 - 1928

4. King Oliver -- Sugar Foot Stomp

5. Johnny Dodds -- Definitive Dodds 1926 - 1927

6. The Owls' Hoot

7. The Georgians -- 1922-23

8. That's My Stuff, Chicago 1929 - 1930

9. Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band -- Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise

10. Hot Notes -- New York, Vol. 1

11. John Kirby -- Complete Associated Transcriptions Vol. 1

12. John Kirby -- Biggest Little Band in the Land

13. Pioneer Recording Bands 1917-1920 - Various Artists

(have yet to get a confirm on this last one from deep discount dot com, and I've struck out before trying to snag it, so I'm not holding my breath.

And from Jazz Crusade, some Captain John Handy plus an Omer Simeon:

14. Capt. John Handy -- All Aboard Vol. 1

15. Capt. John Handy TV Airshots, 1968 - 1970

16. Captain John Handy's New Orleans All-Star Band - 1st half (Connecticut Concert)

17. Captain John Handy's New Orleans All-Star Band - 2nd half (ditto)

18. Rare Cuts Well Done, Vol. 7: Omer Simeon

Edited November 21, 2010 by papsrus

[colinmce]

Ginormous used cd haul throughout town:

Jimmy Smith-Open House/Plain Talk-BN

Oliver Nelson-Blues and the Abstract Truth-Impulse! (long overdue)

Ornette Coleman Sound Museum-Hidden Man-Verve/Harmolodic

Three Sounds-Live at the Lighthouse-BN

Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. I-Savoy Jazz

The five dollar bin, though is where some real great stufff showed up:

Charlie Parker-Bird in Boston 1952-53-Vol. I-Fresh Sound Records

Charlie Parker-Bird in Boston 1952-53-Vol. II-Fresh Sound Records

Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. II-Savoy Jazz

Sonny Criss Orchestra-Sonny's Dream-Prestige/OJC

and the $2.50 bin wasn't too bad either:

Johnny Griffin and Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quintet-Tough Tenors-Jazzland/OJC

Peter Brotzmann/Bill Laswell-Low Life-Celluloid

Jon Madof-Rashanim-Tzadik

Makes me homesick for my old town that actually had a record store. Buying at random on the internet is way too hard, I really love the "luck of the draw" nature of the used section.

[AndrewHill]

Ginormous used cd haul throughout town:

Jimmy Smith-Open House/Plain Talk-BN

Oliver Nelson-Blues and the Abstract Truth-Impulse! (long overdue)

Ornette Coleman Sound Museum-Hidden Man-Verve/Harmolodic

Three Sounds-Live at the Lighthouse-BN

Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. I-Savoy Jazz

The five dollar bin, though is where some real great stufff showed up:

Charlie Parker-Bird in Boston 1952-53-Vol. I-Fresh Sound Records

Charlie Parker-Bird in Boston 1952-53-Vol. II-Fresh Sound Records

Charlie Parker Memorial Vol. II-Savoy Jazz

Sonny Criss Orchestra-Sonny's Dream-Prestige/OJC

and the $2.50 bin wasn't too bad either:

Johnny Griffin and Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quintet-Tough Tenors-Jazzland/OJC

Peter Brotzmann/Bill Laswell-Low Life-Celluloid

Jon Madof-Rashanim-Tzadik

Makes me homesick for my old town that actually had a record store. Buying at random on the internet is way too hard, I really love the "luck of the draw" nature of the used section.

Yeah, me too. I mean the Cleveland area has some "hotspots" but overall it can be pretty drab here (I find the Pittsburgh and Chicago areas to be the best). So today I head over to the Coventry area where there are two stores: the Record Revolution and the Exchange. RR is essentially doing away with all their cd's and focusing on records only, so they've marked all their cd's down to 50 cents a piece! Nothing really exciting there, but they did have a sealed copy of Ernie Krivda Plays Ernie Krivda on CIMP, which I bought for the tidy sum of 54 cents. Unbelievable deal, but a sad reminder of the demise of cd's too. The exchange had a copy of Horace Silver Quintet's Silver's Blue for $7, which I bought in a split-second.

[save0904]

Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Franz Koglmann Annette

[mikelz777]

Billy Taylor Trio - Warming Up

[TedR]

The Marsh/Konitz Storyville set Two Not One for $13.99 using the Borders 50% coupon yesterday.

[EKE BBB]

-Lyle Spud Murphy - New Orbits In Sound/And His 12-Tone System (FSR)

-Herb Pomeroy & His Orchestra - Band In Boston/Life Is A Many Splendored Gig (FSR)

-Ronnie Ball - All About Ronnie (FSR)

-Dinah Washington - Sings Fats Waller (FSR)

-Ahmad Jamal - The Legendary OKeh & Epic Recordings (Columbia)

[mattes]

-Artie Shaw, King of The Clarinet(Hindsight)

-Jo Stafford, For You(Memoir). Her featured solo recordings with Tommy Dorsey. As recommended by Will Friedwald in his new book!

[save0904]

Randy Weston And His African Rhythms Sextet Storyteller

[sidewinder]

Picked up a bundle of RVGs in London for £3 each (Fopp, if anyone is in that area).

And Terry Durham 'Crystal Telephone' on Deram/Vocalion for £2.50 !

Edited November 27, 2010 by sidewinder

[jostber]

Just bought a nice batch of used LP's:

Booker Little - Victory & Sorrow

Denny Zeitlin - Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

Duke Jordan - Dukes Delight

Jerry Butler - Soul Goes On

Kenny Dorham - Whistle Stop

McCoy Tyner - Echoes Of A Friend

Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?

Smokey Robinson - Quiet Storm

Edited November 27, 2010 by jostber

[mikelz777]

Art Pepper - Among Friends

[EKE BBB]

-Ted Brown & Warne Marsh & Art Pepper - The complete Freewheelin' sessions (Vanguard/Lonehill)

-Ted Brown - Free Spirit (Criss Cross)

-Ted Brown & Jimmy Raney - In Good company (Criss Cross)

[mikelz777]

Boogaloo Joe Jones - Legends Of Acid Jazz and Snake Rhythm Rock/Black Whip

Funk Inc. - Funk Inc./Chicken Lickin'

Roy Hargrove - Of Kindred Souls