maren Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 1970, senior in high school: (I had tried to buy Eddie Harris's "Compared to What" as a single -- since it got a lot of radio play -- but no record store in my home had a clue -- neither did I, till I got to college in Madison the next year) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILLYQ Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 1972, 16years old, 'The Inner Mounting Flame' Mahavishnu Orchestra. It totally twisted my head around. Serendipitously, I was in a record store a few months later and noticed that McLaughlin was on a Miles album(Live/Evil). That lead to more Miles, Zawinul, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jack DeJohnette, and 32 years later I still love that album and I still love jazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 My first Jazz CD was Steve Coleman and Five Elements - Curves of Life, not exactly an ideal choice. There was a review published in Oor, a Dutch rock magazine, stating that this was a title that might win curious listeners over for the genre. It was all a bit too much for me. A couple of years later I bought three Miles Davis CDs (Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Nefertiti) and got into Miles' second great quintet's music. That was when I started collecting, bought a Penguin guide, and stopped buying rock CDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 It was a long time ago now but I can remember a 10" by Humphrey Lyttleton That was probably the first lp. In the effort to discover more, other early purchases were Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert and Dave Brubeck's "Jazz Goes To Junior College". Well, John, mine was a 10" "Humph", too: Jazz at the Royal Festival Hall, bought in 1957: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Question - what's a jazz album? Is it this? Or these? The Five Pennies was my 3rd LP, (my Dad had taken me to see the film, which was just out) the MJQ LPs my 7th & 8th (bought in the same transaction, because they were on Atlantic, my favourite R&B label). Did I know what I was doing, on either occasion? Well, I still don't MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 It would have been a Blue Note or Atlantic, possibly Jackie McLean's "Let Freedom Ring" or perhaps John Coltranes' "My Favourite Things". However the first actual vinyl I ever bought was this single: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 My first was Bitches Brew. Or Soft Machine's Third, if you classify that as jazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 The regular catalogue issue of this Benny Goodman-Make Believe Ballroom Tribute to Fletcher Henderson concert: http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/2007-March/044757.html Don't recall that it knocked me out. Probably bought it because it looked like something special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Probably Dave Brubeck Jazz Red, Hot and Cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 in 1972, age 16 or 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Before I "listened to jazz" I owned a few LPs: A Love Supreme, Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Ornette!, Where is Brooklyn?, New Grass, Mingus^5, This is Our Music, etc. When I made a concerted decision to really listen to jazz, I bought Brilliant Corners and then these all at once: Out To Lunch!, Unit Structures, Ascension. Jumped off the deep end, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danasgoodstuff Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 November, 1986. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A store called either Sweet Thunder or Sweet Lightning. (Can't remember which now.) I was 16.Tenor Madness I that wass Sweet Thunder and they were in Victoria too? Nice store, NOT cheap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 The first jazz album I bought was Bix Beiderbecke and the Chicago Cornets, a Milestone two-fer. It was an odd choice for a 15-year-old who had been into the Grateful Dead, but I had read Ralph Berton's Remembering Bix, and was fascinated and curious. I still remember my first spin of the record - I didn't get anything out of the first track, "Fidgety Feet," but as soon as Bix went into his solo on the second track, "Jazz Me Blues," I got it. I could tell that he was something out of the ordinary from that solo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 Wes Montgomery - Small Group Recordings (two lps of his Verve sides with Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Smith) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utevsky Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 I think it was Benny Goodman, Live at Carnegie Hall, purchased in 1961 when I was ten. But I didn't get into jazz until about eight years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gray Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 I am going to ignore the Acker Bilk and Chris Barber records :-) It was actually the English version that only had 5 of the regular 7 tracks but also included one of the tracks from Jazz Giants 56 (why did they do that?). I later bought the missing 2 tracks on an EP. October 1961, I still have it. I was 14. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 I've thought long and hard about this but for the life of it can't remember EXACTLY which was the FIRST jazz record I ever BOUGHT. Before buying records I had been listening to both early jazz ("classic jazz") from the 20s and to swing for quite a few months on the radio but going through my racks (I still have all the records I bought, except a scant handful) I am pretty sure I approached the subject chronologically and the first JAZZ record I ever bought very likely was that ODJB twofer on French RCA that collected all their early Victor recordings as well as a few 30s remakes. Among the other very early purchases around the same time (bought within a scant few months in 1975 when I was 15) were a 2-LP set (on the French Monkey label) featuring the California Ramblers, another Monkey 2-LP set with early Fats Waller piano roll solos, an LP of James P. Johnson piano solos, the (oft-reissued) set of the 1939 recordings by Muggsy Spanier's Ragtime band, but also a "Best Of" compilation of Duke Ellington (featuring 1929 to 1941 tracks - I remember buying this one because it included "Take The A Train" which IIRC was the theme song of the "Fitch Bandwagon" radio show I used to listen to on AFN at that time) as well as a 2-LP set with the classic Artie Shaw Victor recordings of the late 30s and early 40s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_L Posted October 15, 2013 Report Share Posted October 15, 2013 (edited) Probably in 1974, from Third Street Music cutout rack. Wore the grooves out. Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated, "the quintet casts new light on these tunes, making them sound fresh and flexible. This unusual set is recommended to longtime followers of Art Blakey". Edited October 15, 2013 by Jerry_L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indestructible! Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Bought my first jazz album on vinyl as a teenager. I was working at a record and stereo store in Banff, Alberta (Nexus Sound), and we got a shipment of many of those Pathe Marconi Blue Note albums. I opened the box, and saw perhaps the most badass record cover ever (and I was into punk and hardcore at the time, so had seen many a badass cover)... Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2. Had to buy it on the spot. That album changed my life. Thank you Sonny!!! I really dug the drumming on that album, so the next day I bought Indestructible! The trumpet knocked me out, and the only album we had in the store that had Lee Morgan on it was Evolution... so I bought it. Holy shit, what a game-changer that was! The vibes on that album was something else, but the only album in the store that had Hutch on it was Out To Lunch... so the next week I bought that too. And that was it. I was hooked for life. I have learned more about this music than I could have ever imagined from the wisdom of y'all on this board (and the old BNBB before that)... spent far more $$$ than I would have ever expected, too! Great thread! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Garner: Concert By The Sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 in 1972, age 16 or 17 That was certainly one of the first jazz LPs (or 2LPs) I ever heard - a relative had a copy. First LP I bought I think was 'Gerry Mulligan Meets The Sax Giants Vol 2' on Verve and the CBBB 'More Smiles', bought the same day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Litweiler Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Ah, nostalgia. One day when I was about 18 y.o. I finallly got a $10 LP player and read a copy of Down Beat. Bought Manne-Previn-Vinnegar/My Fair Lady and a Benny Goodman Columbia collection from a little record store in the neighborhood - the only jazz records they had in the store. Much pleasure ensued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Wes Montgomery's Somkin' At the Half Note Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Weiss Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 In 1973 (age 15) on advice from my high school music teacher: Horace Silver/Blowing the Blues Away. Followed by Four and More and a Coltrane double-LP reissue The Atlantic Years. Over the next couple of years: Return to Forever: Light as a Feather, Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy Billy Cobham: Spectrum, Crosswinds Mahavishnu: Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire Herbie Hancock: Headhunters, Thrust Weather Report: Mysterious Traveler Sun Ra: Jazz in Silhouette Thad Jones/Mel Lewis: With Joe Williams, Central Park North, Consummation, New Life Trane: Ascension McCoy: Sama Layuca, Trident, Echoes of a Friend Miles: Jack Johnson Elvin: Genesis Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life Joe Farrell: Moon Germs Ahmad Jamal: Impulse Years reissue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 If we're going to discuss further purchases shortly after buying Jazz Red Hot and Cool I joined the Columbia Record Club's Jazz division andreceived KOB, Ellington Indigoes, Lionel Hampton's Silver Vibes and JJ Johnson's Blue Trombone. A pretty good start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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