Back In the Business of Jazz Collector
Sorry I haven’t posted all week. I have moved, once again, this time in the city and I’ve been quite busy, as you can imagine, packing and unpacking records. We have moved from one small place into another small place and decided to keep just one record cabinet with room for about 1,500 records. You can see it in the picture, and perhaps make out a record or two — I see Jackie McLean, Lights Out and also the Cecil Payne on Signal. Anyway, I had to go through the process of weeding out and deciding which records to keep in the apartment, and which to move to other locales. I decided to keep the collection in the city focused primarily on original pressings from the 1955 to 1970 era, and to weed out some of the vocals to make this portion of the collection more bop/hard-bop specific. I also had to remove some of the traditional artists, such as Louis Armstrong and Count Basie, in order to have enough room for the records I wanted to keep here. I also nixed the idea of organizing the records by label and continue to have them alphabetically by artist. This way I’m less compelled to keep around records and artists in which I have less interest, either musically or as collectibles. Anyway, I don’t want to get into all of that, just wanted to explain why I’ve been absent from my post and my posting at Jazz Collector. But I’m back now, ready to once again explore, unearth and expound upon the hidden and not-so-hidden treasures of the Jazz Collector world.
Think I see “we three” at the top shelf, a great record with the underrated Phineas Newborn. My favorite pianist. Greetings from Sweden
Wow, I’m impressed. That is We Three. Did you use a magnifying glass?
Sort of 😉 I usily play that record ones a week so it is very familiar :)Now spinning on the turntable is Harold Lands classic “Grooveyard” on the quality label, Contemporary,
Just curious (and mayby jalous), but is that a Linn turntable?
And it looks like some Linn electronics below! Nice system, what speakers?
Why a television set?
Is the solid chunk of Impulses on the right Coltrane?
Yes, it is a Linn turntable, Linn electronics and Linn speakers. Why a television? Football mostly. That solid chunk of Impulses is, indeed, Coltrane.
That small batch of Impulses to the left of the Coltranes, on the other shelf, turns out to be JJ Johnson and Elvin Jones, in case anyone was curious. I was, that’s why I looked.
Wow..you guys that can spot titles or covers from that photo are obviously some sort of “X-men” mutations that are perhaps ready for a comic book of your own-I can’t do it! Besides the Impulse spines,it’s all(small) greek to me. As for the TV,what better place to view the great black and white concert footage of Trane,Evans,etc in the JAZZ ICONS dvd series from the folks at “Reelin’ In The Years”? And if you’re limited to bookshelf spks,Linn does them as well as anyone(I used to have Canton GlE’s back in the day). Crank ’em,Al!
Funny, no one mentioned that dog toy in the bottom left below the Linn ?… This is starting to get a bit creepy. It’s like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic ‘Rear Window’… (If you look closely at the movie poster in this link you can almost see Al’s records I think ! heh heh.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d6/Rearwindowposter.jpg
Good thing this isn’t a live webcam…
good god, its’s a full scale Peep show!!
The erotic dirty picture world of Jazz Record Hoarders
storage shelves…. Weird!!!
It is strangely interesting though, rather disturbing as you just want to know what there!!!!
Like an adolescent leering up at the top magazine shelf…
You guys are very funny. I may have to think twice posting pictures of my records again. 🙂
Al, I just returned from travel and saw the picture. Thanks for posting, because I have often wondered how large your “retain” record collection is. Congratulations for surviving another record collection move…you must be in good shape by now!