thejazztome.info
A jazz fan with too much time on his hands. I search the internet for information on the genre I love so that you can read it, free from paywalls and ads.
Visit https://thejazztome.info for 500+ albums of liner notes & ephemera.
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Back from vacation, here are the other LPs I picked up on my trip. These came from Nice Price Books in Raleigh, NC, Noble Records in Matthews, NC, and Blue Arrow Records in Cleveland. #jazzsky #vinylsky
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I had the boxset. There was some good stuff, but ultimately it wasn't enough to take up that much space on my shelf. I finally learned my lesson and stopped buying LP boxsets all together.
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Thank you! I've put nearly nine years of free time into it at this point, so I'm always happy to hear that folks find it useful.
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quite a bit of jazz in there. for voters checking out those albums for the first time, consider taking a look at thejazztome.info where you can find liner notes and contemporary reviews for some of those albums which will give more context to what you're hearing.
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Nice! This is my jam.
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One of the greatest one sheet advertisements I've ever seen. Cashbox, 5/23/70
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12" singles would be worse, so at least you have that going for you
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hoping it goes smoothly tonight! will definitely make life easier for you being that compact
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I have an OG. one of my favorite records. I actually found the CD single shoved in a bus seat when I was in grade school, which is wild for southeast Kansas. It's like the band was meant to find me.
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Incredible thread. Thank you!
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you'll just need to have an account over there to borrow both of those.
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here's the 1960 version on @archive.org: archive.org/details/newe...
and here's The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the 70s from 1976: archive.org/details/ency...
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Jumped back into vinyl this week after selling off the collection last year, and one of the first things I repurchased was Katy Lied. What a great one in a catalog full of highlights.
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A perfect album. Right up there with A Love Supreme in my book.
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Chicago lakefront on a summer afternoon is one of my favorite places
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I held back 20 LPs and sold the other 1200 LPs last year. Took a year off, and now I'm slowly buying again.
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Lived in Manhattan for five years then Overland Park for another five years, so you know I've dropped a lot of money at Love Garden. One of my favorites.
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Just jumped in and subscribed! Was a pleasant surprise to see someone talking Clifford Brown and Jimmy Giuffre this morning.
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Good morning, I know I'm just a random follower, but my website has liner notes and contemporary reviews of all seven of those albums plus over five hundred more. Please go take a look: thejazztome.info
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Now I'm picturing this like it's that scene near the beginning of Goodfellas and you went to jail, but when you come back out everyone is throwing you a party. Lol. I need a vacation, my brain is shot.
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Wait, the *inner* sleeve? This person is nuts. I like how they also inadvertently complimented your shipping methods. I would just laugh it off; anyone that looks at your feedback and reads that will laugh, too.
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Tying this back to jazz, the "music fans in Europe appreciate black musicians much more than Americans" vibe related by the critic was absolutely a big thing, & resulted in a lot of jazz folks expatriating in the early/mid 1960s and not returning for a decade or two. You go where you're appreciated.
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Another slightly less obvious one that I love is Luther Allison's Bad News is Coming from 1972. Lot of standards, but exceptionally well executed.
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I think I first got into Chicago blues from hearing Butterfield's East-West. That album blew me away.
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If you want to keep going, there's a fun video on YouTube from when they opened for The Closing of Winterland (yes, that concert). Quality is terrible for the first five minutes, but it gets better. I always smile when I see Paul Shaffer with hair. youtu.be/e4OMWW25Fzc?...
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I grew up with it, even more than the movie, so I know every word by heart. We actually went and saw a really good Blues Brothers act the last time we were in D.C.
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Not sure that's true. Things are more fragmented, but you've got good people out there like @anthonydeanharris.com and @radiobob.bsky.social in radio, for example, working their tails off to tell stories old & new. I have to keep my scope narrow, but it's not because I don't respect today's voices.
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thank you!
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Love to see this near the top of your posts when I just posted about it the other day. Great album. bsky.app/profile/thej...
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yes, both radio and tv