JAZZ IS LIKE HEROIN TO ME ! ! ! ~~~~ ILM POST-1945 JAZZ ALBUMS POLL - THE RESULTS COUNTDOWN (now counting top 25!)

You guys need to buy from amazon or get a Fopp like chain. (Tho Fopp is shit now for Jazz cds, 10 years ago it was awesome. Rows and rows of jazz cds under a fiver. )

www.dustygroove.com is a good place for cheapish jazz CDs (and some pricey LPs if that's your thing).

my store!
also jazz record mart http://jazzmart.com/

(not mine as in i own it or work there, just that i like to go there)

you own it and are loaded, admit it!

how cheap is amazon.com compared to amazon.co.uk ?

pretty cheap if you order from 3rd party sellers. I've recently bought these new:
Page One $2.85
Mwandishi $5
Brilliant Corners and Monk's Dream $7 each

(wasn't familiar with Page One, the rest I was but want hard copies)

oh man you got a bargain for page one.

just got a £3.75 refund from paypal for a coltrane cd i bought on ebay, but no email or anything from ebay. but i assume it's not a mistake or cancelled,but i dont want to buy it off another seller until i have proper confirmation.

speaking of jazz dealzz http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LR5JZO
i just ordered this, the complete miles/coltrane columbia box for $20.
i have most of it already (don't have jazz at the plaza), but i am a sucker!

i ordered another cd from the same seller at the same time so i hope that doesn't get cancelled too

tyler did you get your free mp3 too? :)

i did, yes. just suckering me into buying more things ...

i dont think i've ever had a free mp3 from amazon. Anyone ever got that from amazon uk?

I've been buying a bunch of stuff cos of this thread too, mostly whatever Blue Note stuff that I hadn't heard that I can pick-up cheaply. Enjoyed Page One a lot on the one listen so far, mostly for some of the lovely purplish hues that McCoy's playing brings to the music. Which was a nice surprise anyhow cos he's not given a credit on the front cover (sleeve notes say 'contractual reasons').

i really need to read sleevenotes more often, haha

Just picked up vol. 4 of the Coltrane impulse reissues. All I can do is look at it - the movers took away all my cd playing devices this morning. It'll just be staring at me for weeks, taunting and mocking me.

speaking of jazz dealzz http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LR5JZO
i just ordered this, the complete miles/coltrane columbia box for $20.
i have most of it already (don't have jazz at the plaza), but i am a sucker!

― tylerw

xposts: this sucker paid $120 for it back when it came out. you gots the deal o' the day tylerw! it sounds sublime. enjoy!

Jazz album covers circa 1955-1965 so much cooler than pop/rock albums covers of that era

poll?

today i received my john coltrane Blue Train cd which has a bonus cd of 2 other albums 'dakar' and 'traineing in' which I got for £3.19 ppd (and its brand new and sealed not 2nd hand) on ebay .
Are those 2 extra albums any cop? i think its a bit of a bargain.

Just picked up vol. 4 of the Coltrane impulse reissues.
definitely want to get the rest of these (just have the first two). why are the new ones so much $$$? first two were a bit of a steal.

New ones are Hip-O Select. I'm guessing they're printing way fewer because these are primarily the "way out" stuff, and thus are charging through the teeth. Vol. 5 has Live in Japan, which is part of its price bump over and above Vol. 4.

curses!

But you said you haven't bought Vol. 3 yet. That one's cheap! And packed with awesome!

not so cheap over here

i wonder if the jazz listening club impacted on the results here. Maybe it was a success after all. Dunno if it would be worth starting up again however.

obv not :)

Coltrane on Impulse vol 4 does look great:

Expression
Live at the Village Vanguard Again!
Om
Cosmic Music (with Alice Coltrane)
Selflessness featuring My Favorite Things

Already have Expression and I've got LATVVA on vinyl, but haven't heard any of those last three. All pretty hard to come by on CD I should imagine. Any idea what'll be on 5?

I just got Money Jungle in the mail, so far I'm liking it a lot. I love how minimalist and punctuated by empty spaces Ellington's playing is. (Though I do wonder if it was merely an aesthetic choice, or whether his advanced age forced him to play that way, not being able to play that fast anymore?) Also, Roach's showcase tune ("A Little Max") is hella groovy, good thing they found it in the Blue Note vaults, since it wasn't on the original album. I love it when bebop drummers who were mostly delegated to cymbal tapping get to show off like that.

if i had lots of money i would certainly have bought those impulse sets. As i said on the FOPP thread, i wish they were still good for jazz like they used to be. Terrible now.
But since a bunch of classic Blue Note is £3.99 on amazon it's not so bad. Got a big list bookmarked and ready to buy from once i can afford more.

I may have said this on other jazz threads, but my almost purely classical-loving dad was really into money jungle when I played it for him.

Coltrane on Impulse Vol. 5:

Live In Seattle
Sun Ship
Transition
Infinity
Coltrane In Japan

but you can't listen to it to tell us how they sound?

Not out yet. I can't listen to Volume 4 for several more weeks.

I may have said this on other jazz threads, but my almost purely classical-loving dad was really into money jungle when I played it for him

I just got Money Jungle in the mail, so far I'm liking it a lot. I love how minimalist and punctuated by empty spaces Ellington's playing is. (Though I do wonder if it was merely an aesthetic choice, or whether his advanced age forced him to play that way, not being able to play that fast anymore?) Also, Roach's showcase tune ("A Little Max") is hella groovy, good thing they found it in the Blue Note vaults, since it wasn't on the original album. I love it when bebop drummers who were mostly delegated to cymbal tapping get to show off like that.

― Tuomas, Friday, September 9, 2011 3:29 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he wasnt that advanced in age, and its definitely a conscious aesthetic choice -- his chops werent hurt by age & tbh he was never really a speedy player anyway? he was known for overall conceptual choices & musical ones not technique or something

interesting, the classical connection w/ money ungle. a little while ago, richard brody (film ed. for new yorker) wrote:" Money Jungle, the one jazz record that gives me the same feelings as when I listen to Beethoven's late quartets."
anyway, yeah, ellington was not like a virtuoso pianist (at least compared to say, art tatum), and it served him well -- he was able to adjust his style for all kinds of recording situations, from Money Jungle to the COltrane record to his own stuff.

ellington was not like a virtuoso pianist

if jazz ever gets hip to indiekids then duke ellington will be their main mann.

Anatomy of a Murder score is another good later-period Duke imo

Transition
Infinity

Never heard either of these and tend to get the posthumous muddled but is Infinity the one with the overdubbed strings or something?

yeah infinity is the one alice overdubbed strings/organ/etc on. it's cool.

Hmmm, that seems to be the expensive one to buy separately. £69 on Amazon here wah!

wow that's a bit expensive

is it a japanese reissue?

Transition
Infinity

Never heard either of these and tend to get the posthumous muddled but is Infinity the one with the overdubbed strings or something?

Transition is amazing, one of the better quartet dates, nearly as intense as Sun Ship.

For those on the fence about the Impulse Vol. 5 set, the 2CD Live In Seattle and the monstrous(ly brilliant) 4CD Live In Japan are essential, and aren't as well served by the original LP formations as some of the other Impulse dates are.

so so expensive

I saw a few copies of The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings at Rasputin for around $40. Also on Amazon. I think from 1998, should sound fine.

not heard the 4cd live in japan i dont think. I have olatunji on cd

no cds in mail today :(