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  3. Silly questions regarding cd transport and storage

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    I realize that some East Bay residents probably own cds, but I thought I'd ask this for my own peace of mind.

    My girlfriend and I will be moving out to Oakland, California next week. We're renting a Penske 16-footer. I'd like to bring my cds out with us, but my girlfriend (who probably would be happier if the cds were not out there with us but will live with them if I want to take them) cautioned me that they might be damaged by warm temperatures as we cross the Southwest. I'm also concerned - hopefully without justification - about storing them on shelves in our apartment out in California. My discs currently sit in my parents' basement, which is always fairly cool. Oakland, on the other hand, can get warm during the summer, although perhaps without the stickiness of Minnesota summers.

    To recap, does anyone have an idea of how likely the cds will be damaged while sitting in the truck as we traverse high-temperatured states, or how likely they are to be damaged by storing them in an non-air-conditioned third-floor apartment in Oakland?

    Thanks

  4. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Earlier this week I spent a couple hours at the Berkeley Amoeba and picked up a brand new Good Time Jazz title (The Famous Castle Jazz Band In Stereo) that's not even available used on Amazon for 8 bucks, and 18 or so Blues and Rhythm Classics titles for 5 bucks a pop. Compared to the Half Price Books and Cheapo locations in the Twin Cities, Amoeba's prices are damned fine.
    18 Classics R&B titles for $5 each! That's a great score.

    I know! Brand new and shrink-wrapped, too. For whatever reason, they're in much less demand than the jazz classics series.

  5. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Earlier this week I spent a couple hours at the Berkeley Amoeba and picked up a brand new Good Time Jazz title (The Famous Castle Jazz Band In Stereo) that's not even available used on Amazon for 8 bucks, and 18 or so Blues and Rhythm Classics titles for 5 bucks a pop. Compared to the Half Price Books and Cheapo locations in the Twin Cities, Amoeba's prices are damned fine.

  7. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Niko is right, it's Jimmy Heath.

    Penguin Guide says the ablum is "less arresting [than The Quota]; more of a straight blowing session, it doesn't play to Jimmy's real strengths and the production seems oddly underpowered, as if everything has been taken down a notch to accomodate Burrell's soft and understated guitar lines. 'All the Things You Are' has some moments of spectacular beauty.... Good straightforward jazz, but not a great Jimmy Heath album."

    Not quite a ringing endorsement, but I like Heath and don't always agree with Penguin, so I'm looking forward to it.

  8. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Took advantage of J&R's 2.95 flat shipping rate and Memorial Day weekend special - spend 150 and get 15 off, and got

    Andy Bey Andy Bey & The Bey Sisters

    Barry Harris At The Jazz Workshop

    Billy Taylor Billy Taylor Trio

    Charles Mingus Jazzical Moods

    Charlie Byrd Latin Byrd

    Don Ellis New Ideas

    Don Patterson/Sonny Stitt Brothers-4

    Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Johnny Griffin Blues Up And Down

    Hampton Hawes The Seance

    Hampton Hawes The Sermon

    Harold Mabern A Few Miles From Memphis

    James Clay The Sound of Wide Open Spaces

    Jimmy Forrest Soul Street

    Jimmy Forrest Out of the Forrest

    Jimmy Forrest On The Trail

    Johnny Griffin Sextet

    Junior Mance At The Village Gate

    Miles Davis Conception

    Paul Desmond Paul Desmond Quintet

    Red Garland All Kinds Of Weather

    Roy Haynes Cracklin'

    Willis Jackson After Hours

    They came out to around $6.4 apiece.

    Also found a number of titles available via Concord's website that are cheaper than those offered by Amazon Marketplace vendors:

    George Wallington The New York Scene

    Red Norvo Music To Listen TO Red Norvo By

    Gerry Wiggins Relax and Enjoy it

    Jim Robinson New Orleans: The Living Legends - Plays Spirituals and Blues

    Don Ewell Man Here Plays Fine Piano

    Burt Bales They Tore My Playhouse Down

    Red Garland The Nearness Of You

    I'm giving myself a couple more good-sized purchases before I say goodbye to the Fantasy umbrella and move on to something else (or saving money).

    Finally, I got shipping confirmations of a couple VSOP albums(the Red Norvo and Harry Babasin titles) from Deep Discount after placing an order back in December 2009.

  9. Chronological Classics

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Thanks for the response, Brownie. It is indeed a shame that the label is defunct. I was one of those idiots who put off purchasing them because they were too pricey compared to other labels' titles. Look at the prices now.

  10. Chronological Classics

    in Re-issues

    Posted

    Would someone owning or familiar with many titles comment on the general frequency of duplications in this series? For instance, will the same track appear on both Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, or Mildred Bailey and Red Norvo titles?

    Thanks.

  11. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Ever since 2004, when various persons started threads predicting the end of the Fantasy labels, I've been playing catch up on titles. Although I still have probably 150-200 titles I'd like, I feel as though I'm finally over the hump.

    I got ten of the remaining Legends of Acid Jazz titles I had been missing (thanks, Magnificent Goldberg, for the comprehensive thread!), each for 8 bucks a pop:

    Boogaloo Joe Jones, Vol. 1

    Idris Muhammad

    Melvin Sparks

    Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers

    Johnny "Hammond" Smith

    Don Patterson

    Houston Person

    Billy Butler

    Shirley Scott

    Taking advantage of JR.com's shipping offer, I also got the following for $7 each:

    The Billy Taylor trio with Candido

    Lucky Thompson - Lucky Strikes

    Barney Kessel's Swingin' Party at Contemporary

    Barry Harris - Bull's Eye

    Roy Haynes - Cracklin'

    Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Cookbook, Vol. 2

    Steve Lacy - Evidence

    Yusef Lateef - Other Sounds

    Yusef Lateef - Cry!/Tender

    Chuck Wayne - Morning Mist

    Gerry Mulligan - Mullgan Plays Mulligan

    Sidney Bechet - Up A Lazy River

    Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Chubby Jackson Big Band

    Cal Tjader - Monterey Concerts

    Finally, I found super cheap copies of the following from Amazon marketplace vendors:

    Red Holloway - Brother Red

    Barry Harris - Luminescence!

    Ahmed Abdul-Malik - Jazz Sounds of Africa

    Shirley Scott - Soul Shoutin'

    Kenny Burrell (2fer) - All Day Long/All Night Long

    Whew! Someone on this board once told me "Don't forget to listen...." I don't know that I've internalized that bit of wisdom completely, but I'm doing my best.

  14. Bob Crosby and his Bob Cats

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    Does anyone have any of the compilations featuring Crosby's stuff? I couldn't find much information about Crosby on the board.

    So far I'm aware of the 15 or so discs in Halycon's comprehensive Crosby series, four discs of just the Bob Cats material from Swaggie (both mentioned in the Penguin Guide), and most recently, three discs from an outfit called Sounds of Yesteryear, also featuring the Bob Cats' sides.

    Any Organissimites own any of these discs? If so, any thoughts on them?

    Thanks.

  16. Worlds Records deals on Jazz Oracle/Heps

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    Moderators, please move this to the pertinent area if necessary; I wasn't sure if it belonged in the sell/trade, reissue, or recommend sub-forums.

    If you like the Jazz Oracle or Hep series, Worlds Records (http://www.worldsrecords.com/catalog/year.html), which is usually too blue for my blood, has some excellent deals on select Heps ($5 - Joe Mooney, the Dorsey Brothers, Ted Heath titles) and Jazz Oracles ($10.20, on 3-4 titles, the cheapest retail price I've ever seen for the label).

    Sale lasts until 21 Dec, and I'm in no way affiliated with the Worlds Records, except, hopefully, as a satisfied customer.

  18. Guilt and self-doubt

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    It's been some time since I've actually posted (and I should probably change my handle to something more civilian-esque), and a cursory search of the board tells me that I've used "guilt" in a topic title before (and the only one, at that), but so be it, I'm a guilt-ridden guy.

    Since my discharge in June 2007 and the concomitant termination of significant disposable income, I've done my best to avoid the compulsive purchases that typified my first couple years as a self-proclaimed jazz aficionado; for example, in the month before my first deployment, I spend somewhere around $7,000 on the music. Believe me, that's no boast. Anyway, I spent the last two years in college, living off the GI Bill and some savings, limiting my jazz purchases to BMG/Yourmusic deals and the occasional Mosaics (the Tal Farlow, once it hit running low). Hopefully I'll be accepted into a graduate program for this coming fall, but for now I'm unemployed but possibly on the verge of being employed. I have some cushion, in the forms of remaining savings and long-term stocks (which I will not touch anytime in the next few decades), and everything seemed to be going okay. I was shopping at ALDI (the best damn food deal in my neck of the woods), watching Netflix with the gal pal instead of paying ten bucks to see current films, etc. Everything was fine.

    Black Friday has triggered a relapse into my old buying habits. I bought 4 of the JSP Waller sets and a few VSOPs on DeepDiscount; the Eddie Condon, Chris Connor, Jimmy Giuffre, John Lewis, some MJQ titles, and a few OJCs that I didn't have at Oldies.com (sale!); and the 1950s Teagarden and Shorty Rogers Mosaics on Ebay. Maybe 700 bucks in the last week. I can afford it, but just barely/not really.

    While I look forward to enjoying the music, I can't help but feel that this will be a never ending cycle. Months or a year of relative frugality, followed by frenzied buying. I'm partly motivated by the knowledge that the music that was available on cd four years ago is now out of print, and partly motivated by the realization that, although my collection has grown considerably in the five or so years that I've been avidly into the music, I'll never have it all, and therefore must get as much as possible before...before death or children or something else, I'm not sure.

    I've read the thread about jazz as an addiction/having more than one can ever really get to know, and it is certainly comforting. I'll never go broke because I can't refrain from buying, but I still feel it's unhealthy. On the other hand, aside from following politics (free) and working my way through official histories of WWII (also free, via the library), jazz is the only thing I do in my free time.

    Does anyone have any comforting words of wisdom or cutting but hopefully helpful criticisms? Either are most welcome.

  25. question about oil leak in car

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Nowhere is my ignorance more obvious than when it comes to automobiles, especially the one I own. It's a 1993 Lumina that I bought off a buddy a couple years ago for 500 bucks, and so far it has had no major problems. I recently drove from North Carolina to Minnesota, and I'm about to head back. Before I left, I had a tune-up, and oil leaks from the front and rear seals. I made it to MN with no problem. I also got a mechanic here to look at it, and he also mentioned the leak, but when I asked him if that would be a problem on the return drive, he said just to keep an eye on it. My question:

    If I bring extra containers of oil in the car, should that be good enough? Are oil leaks relatively normal? Do I need to fix this before I leave?

    By the way, I can see a little bit of oil under the car when I park, but it doesn't look excessive.

    I appreciate any knowledge you car savvy folks can impart. Thanks.

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