Comments on: Another Visit to A Record Store, Pandemic Edition

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:16:45 +0000

ah, well done — the only ones that have eluded me in their original form are the Dewey Redman and Rod Levitt.

By: James Allen

James Allen — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:42:36 +0000

I too love those Marte Rolings designs Clifford. I managed to pick up all but one of these great LPs in the W.H.Smith (a UK chain stationers) sale in 1972 after the abolition of retail price maintenance in the UK for around 50 pence each.
The one I missed? Marion Brown,Juba-Lee, and out of my price range ever since!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 04:59:57 +0000

Love the ESP / Sun Ra abstract covers as well. I have quite a few of the Independent Free Jazz stuff from the 60’s with great graphic designs on them. Of course , I am a sucker for David Stone Martin DSM and have made purchases just for his covers.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 02:51:48 +0000

Good question, Daryl. I love Lee Friedlander’s Atlantic cover shots from the tail end of the ’50s and beginning of the ’60s. Certainly have a ton of Atlantic jazz releases in the racks and they do get regular play.

Favorite covers, for me, the starker the better — those black & white earlier ESPs, and several albums on Danish Debut really knock me out as well. And for a more colorful change, Marte Röling’s designs for Dutch Fontana… or some of the hand painted items from Sun Ra’s vast discography.

By: DARYL L PARKS

DARYL L PARKS — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 02:12:40 +0000

This post brought to mind one of my many points of confusion about my JC Community. Overwhelmingly, posts of love and passion are (in descending order) BN, Prestige, New Jazz, Riverside, Norgran, Impulse, and the great unwashed. In this post, however, I find my hero Al discussing titles & labels outside the JC oligarchy! 😉 This comes at the same time that I pulled out Charles Lloyd Quartet– Love In on Atlantic, lovingly admiring the awesome psych cover, for a spin. 1) Will there be a time when my JC family discusses top Atlantic jazz recordings? 🙂 2) I love this Love In cover so much, I found myself wondering about our favorite jazz covers of all time, something implicit in Al’s post today.

By: lennib

lennib — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:46:33 +0000

And Al, comments on presence of canine Gordon brought a question to mind. Which is, where was your dog Marty when all this was going on? Seems to me, from pasts posts, i.e. Bruce West collection, Marty was always riding shotgun.
Having lost a four legged companion recently, I do hope Marty’s okay.

By: jimrjim

jimrjim — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:35:19 +0000

I always thoroughly enjoy your features on the hunting and gathering aspects of collecting. Most of us have pressed the “enter” button with crossed fingers as an online auction ticks down the final seconds but I’ve always found real joy flipping through album after album in a good used shop (even a bad one) or flipping through crates on the floor of a record show or pawing through somebody’s absurd heaps of cultch as they help you locate their uncle’s old jazz collection in the musty back corner of a cellar.
Now that you are within fifty or sixty miles of both the Pioneer Valley and the Upper Hudson Valley I hope to see many more of these posts. Gordon could grab one of those K9 masks if he is feeling particularly anxious about human contact (or if the smell of damp records is overwhelming).

By: lennib

lennib — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:49:38 +0000

That Paul Serrano lp is pretty nice. Used to have it years ago. Lot’s o’ Chi-town cats, like Jodie Christian and alto man Bunky Green, as I recall. Caught Serrano and Green many times in sets here and there in Chicago. Sets Joe Segal often ran.
Paul Serrano later opened his own recording studio, and later worked as engineer producer for Delmark Records. Think they bought his studio.
Anyway a nice record of a moment in time.

By: Art Klempner

Art Klempner — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:59:01 +0000

Could there really be great jazz that’s not Blue Note ? Surely you jest Al ? Do yourself a favor and put on a blindfold and then judge the music you bought. I tip my pork pie hat to you for supporting brick and mortar record stores .

By: Al

Al — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:31:05 +0000

Thanks Maarten. I have to admit, I smiled to myself when I wrote it. 🙂