Comments on: Reorganizing Records: A Particular Insanity?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 03:21:53 +0000

I own about 2500 -3000 records.
I really trimmed down the collection so basically I have “Choice picks” collection and not to many filler.
I sort by genre. Jazz with jazz
60 psych
60′ garage
60’s surf
And so on….
But all my jazz is together wherther Blue notes, prestige , riverside etc etc..
You get the point…
But it’s true Al some times I go back and sort through them again. It’s amazing what you forget!

Peace

By: GST

GST — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:32:36 +0000

Brian…that is sacrilege! That’s why I own OGs of both (at least Dolphy’s Out to Lunch) 🙂

By: Daryl

Daryl — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:16:41 +0000

Rereading your column, a tidbit jumped out that caught me by surprise, Al: What lp’s do you own that are 1970+? Having followed the JC family for the past couple of years, I don’t recall any mention or exploration of records from this era. Hmm… late Impulse?

By: brian o'blivion

brian o'blivion — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 06:16:42 +0000

“…I have thousands of songs available on my IPOD as opposed to having a small apartment filled with vinyl reissue albums worth 10 bucks a piece…”

i don’t understand why you have vinyl at all then… if you can make do with mp3s what’s the point of having any records? and some of the greatest records ever made are worth between $8-15 and i’m not talking about jazz reissues…it may be sacrilege around these parts but i’d take It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back before anything by say, someone like Eric Dolphy. OG press or no OG press…

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:02:35 +0000

Last spring I drove my 15k lps from our home in Las Vegas to our Iowa house. Finally,they are filed and in order my having touched every one of them–though some hurriedly. While checking out the jazz forms I’ve listening to(watched) on Youtube a Count Basie concert, Diana Krall live at Newport,and now Thad Jones is on. May be this record hoarding is nuts. But I enjoy hearing about how others are storing their “loved ones.”

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:24:31 +0000

Being a completist in jazz would bring almost anyone to financial ruin!

The problem is which John Coltrane albums do you “really” need, etc…some days I look at my 40+ Sun Ra albums and wonder if I need that many but then one can view it as a library; it’s there for listening when the desire arises.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:22:22 +0000

yeah, I’d say my collection is modest – a touch under 4000 LPs and I’ve really whittled down my CD stash. But with a small Brooklyn apartment it’d be hard to fit more in there.

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:59:12 +0000

Fredrik,

I’m with you. I buy quality over quantity – don’t have the wife or room that would accept thousands of LPs. 🙂 Nor have the time to listen to such a collection. I buy what I like, and I got over my anal-retentive completist bent years ago. Can’t afford that OCD behavior anyway.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:33:48 +0000

Shaft: cool. Yeah, I can relate to the notion of having to have the music on vinyl to feel that you do own the album. The problem with collecting only 1st pressings is that it’s so damn expensive that you can’t buy so many albums per year. But I have time to build a nice collection in the years to come, I’m only 39. The satisfaction of collecting only 1st pressings of these lovely gems is hard to put words on. They have soul. Reissues don’t. Browsing through the collection without the feeling of dissatisfaction when you hit a reissue copy in the pile.

By: Shaft

Shaft — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:50:30 +0000

Fredrik, I respect your vision about owning only 1st pressings – especially sincy you can actually listen to other music through other channels with a better selection.
I’ve thought about going the same way but then again I find cheap and interesting records that are not on CD or Spotify. If I don’t have the title on Vinyl if feels like I don’t really “own it”. I have about 2500 vinyls and 5000CDs so I never run out on music 😉