Comments on: Rare Jazz on eBay: Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Barney Wilen and More

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 00:58:58 +0000

Yes, Zappa had some great lines. An interviewer with a wooden leg said to him, ‘So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?’ Frank Zappa: ‘You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”

By: Lennib

Lennib — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 22:25:09 +0000

Yes, the comments on D. Burrell’s “Echo” made me smile. Remember buying BYG’s in cutout bins, then the cycle turned and everybody wanted them and prices went upupupup!
Had to play it again before packing it off to sell. Somewhat liberating packing shelves of records into boxes.
As many are buying, I’m selling, it’s time, I’m older and the market is somewhat insane. Might as well cash in at high end, sold waaay too many Blue Notes for $10.00 or less over the years.
Sean, I knew some cats who came to Jazz, as yourself, from Mr. Zappa. Though didn’t he once say that “Jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.”

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 15:40:49 +0000

Bill W.: yeah, Echo is on another level. I do like the flipside, Peace, though.

@Abrasive_Beautiful — indeed, as I think commenter Michel has pointed out, the Blue Note/Prestige situation has gotten really crazy in terms of prices and it’s a lot easier and cheaper to focus on sessions done for other labels during the same period (also many of those are getting expensive!). I also buy a lot of random cheap ($5) 70s jazz titles just to check ’em out — I think one gets a pretty broad spectrum of the music, coupled with 50s/60s classics, free music, bop and pre-war forms.

By: Abrasive_Beautiful

Abrasive_Beautiful — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:34:39 +0000

Little late to the discussion, but it’s interesting how people’s collecting paths change from the mainstream as time goes on.

I enjoy most styles of jazz, but I’ve spent the majority of the last few years focused on collecting Blue Note. There have been brief detours of a few weeks into Contemporary, inexpensive but excellent 70’s sessions, etc. I have also always appreciated Free jazz, which I think in part is due to a period of time (before jazz) that I was around a lot of DIY experimental and noise music. A lot of Free jazz sounds harmonious and beautiful compared to standing in a dark basement listening to distortion, static, and feedback. Heh.

Unfortunately, I feel like I’ve hit a wall lately on collecting Blue Note, getting burned a lot, and paying a premium for less than average condition. Not fun. So instead, I’ve been heading deeper into the modern jazz on the mid to late 50’s on various other labels. I could have just as easily started collecting the Blue Note artists’ later works or gone down the avant-garde rabbit hole, but I have always liked the 50’s best. I’m finding a lot of new music, and some familiar names too, but with a much lower price tag and better condition.

By: Bill W.

Bill W. — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 03:03:04 +0000

The farthest out I get is listening to George Russell, Carla Bley, Jeanne Lee, Vienna Art Orchestra, Sun Ra, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and some of Coltrane’s more experimental stuff. But… I just can’t picture myself coming home from a hard day at work and chilling out to “Echo” by Dave Burrell.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:23:57 +0000

When I was in my teens I was very much into Frank Zappa and the song “Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue” made me seek out (no pun intended) Dolphy records. Also I thought “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” was brilliant. Zappa got me into the out and Dolphy made me the jazz lover I am today.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:35:03 +0000

Haha, beautiful Monk quip.

Agreed, though Thembi does feel to me like snippets of something larger, which was more fully realized on other Sanders LPs. Black Unity is in my opinion the strongest.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:59:12 +0000

Richard- A friend of mine’s dad saw Monk play in the mid 60s and he caught him outside before the show, asking “Whats up Monk?” And Monk supposedly responded with “Whoa thats some heavy sh*t man!”

By: Gregory the Fish

Gregory the Fish — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:22:53 +0000

Art, you’re so cheeky.

Ethan, Yeah. I hear you. I used to love the multi-horn squawk stuff, and i still do, but i have become more selective with it. but goodness, don’t skip tracks! that’s like only looking at part of a painting or skipping 1/6 of a movie! to each their own, but that’s my two cents.

Richard, that’s exactly my feeling as well. In his biography, he is quoted as saying ornette coleman wasn’t that new because “i did that twenty years ago!”. haha.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:20:31 +0000

@Art — a friend of a friend supposedly pulled a nice copy of Peter Broetzmann’s “Nipples” (original Calig) out of a free bin at a shop in Austin some years ago. Quite a good score.