Free Bird LP: The Winner Is . . .
OK, the summer is over, the living is no longer easy, and it’s time to give away our latest free record: Charlie Parker Memorial Volume 1, Blue Note 12000. This is an original pressing with the deep red label and the deep groove. It’s not in mint condition, but it is quite nice and quite listenable. As we have mentioned many times before, all you have to do to be eligible to win our record contests is to post a comment on the Jazz Collector site — anywhere on the site — from the time the contest begins until it ends. The idea is to encourage visitors to comment on the site. The concept seems to be catching on: This time we have our highest number of eligible contestants, and the amount of commenting on the site is clearly growing (as is the overall traffic, by the way). Anyway, those eligible to win this week’s grand prize are:
Rudolf and Michel (of course); Geraint, Bethellodge, Jason Sweet, Doug, Peter A, Maarten Kools, Erich Schultz, Dave, Doug Hines, Russ E. S., CeeDee, Huder, Red Colm O’Sullivan, Matt, Dick Kammeier, Robert and Larry Rybicki. And, drum roll please, here is Mrs. JC, fresh from her limited engagement at the Monterey General Store, to choose the winner. The names are on the table, they are being shuffled around, and . . . the winner is . . . Red Colm O’Sullivan. Congratulations Red. If you send a separate email with your address and contact information to al@jazzcollector.com, we will send you this great record, and we’ll even pay for the shipping. Our next contest begins tomorrow, so please stay tuned.
I have just returned back to the jazz world of collecting LP’s after a 30 year gap. I used to collect Japanese labels of jazz, due to the high level of recordings at such time. I gave most of the records to friends and collectors as I moved on at the time. My Dad who is a jazz musician and jazz journalist, suggested I return to my old passions of collecting jazz records from my youth, so I found your website very helpful to renew an old passion, and reconnect with my Dad with common bonds. If I were to receive this LP from Charlie Parker I would like to give it to my Dad, that lives in Australia, and is a Charlie Parker fan.
Kind regards, Richard
Welcome Richard. If you check the date of that post it is from 2009. That record has been sitting on someone’s shelf for the past four years. But keep coming to the site — you never know when I will decide to give something away.