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I joined on November 29, 2003 with the main interest of exploring and discussing contemporary free jazz / free improvisation in what would become an infamous Funny Rat thread. Before that, I was at BNBB which I joined in 2001 (?) as a complete jazz newbie. I was just starting to post fairly actively there when it folded! I learned a lot about jazz from (very patient) people who posted at BNBB and still post here - to whom I am very grateful (seriously). I then joined the AAJ board where I was pretty active, but Chaney, king ubu and J.A.W. dragged me over here. These were the people I wanted to discuss the music with and they were here and not at AAJ - so I followed them. This was exhilarating. My (and other posters') relative ignorance multiplied by insatiable appetite for adventurous, hitherto unheard music resulted on exuberant - and often extremely funny - rapid-fire exchange. Then it wound down. Chaney, JohnB and LeMo (and Gary, I guess) left the board for good. I lost interest in jazz and listened to classical music exclusively (well, somehow Stan Getz would keep creeping in) for a year or two. Right now I am as excited about new jazz / improv music as ever (and there is A LOT of excellent new music created nowadays), but I am just not that interested in discussing it an online forum any longer - hence my puny 2.5 posts per month. And anyway, just as 23 years ago, there is very little interest in such music here anyway. I still check Organissimo every day, but it's probably nothing more than a habit at this stage.

That happened to me only twice so far. They end up as birthday or Christmas presents for a befriended couple (they always say, they'd starve musically without me). No I alway checks before ordering anything. Baoque music bargains are a dangerous field in this respect.

Pres!

I run into that from time to time, wondering whether I put the CD other than its assigned spot or if I mixed up the stacks as I shifted CDs around the room after so many new acquisitions. I've got a missing Misha Mengelberg and a Jim McNeely for starters that I need to find. It's not like either CD left the room. Denny Zeitlin's latest CD also turned up missing.

No - just this one edition, limited to 300 copies. Price may vary depending on the condition of the outer box, which is too feeble to hold the weight of 22 LPs. I had to reinforce mine with clear adhesive tape. The selection of recordings is very collector friendly - everything issued on Spotlite, Savoy, Blue Note etc, was left out. There was, btw, another 22 LP box with Lester Young live recordings, the Pres Box. I wish I would have been into Pres back then as I was into Bird. Today I would trade my Bird Box for the Pres box any time. https://www.discogs.com/release/6256072-Lester-Young-Live-And-Private-Recordings-In-Chronological-Order

I recently re-sorted my CDs into boxes. New (unheard) box sets New singles New Vocals Miles Monk/Newk/Coltrane EMI family jazz Christmas Surf Guitar and Surfing Bossa Nova Heard box sets Heard jazz Heard '60s rock Recently Heard

I have all my cds ripped (and backed up) and have photos of all the booklets so I never have problems finding and listening to something. About 20 years ago (when I spent a couple weeks ripping every cd I had) I alphabetized my single cd collection and put it into two or three plastic boxes per letter of the alphabet and kept it all in storage. I then let things go for decades and just accumulated cds in random order in boxes which I would throw into storage. I'm in my mid seventies and signs of aging and mortality keep turning up so I've begun to think about disposing of all the hard copies by giving some away and selling some. But in order to do that I needed to get them back into good order so I can find things. A landlord decided to take back the place I was living in a few months back (harrumph!) so part of my prep for moving included getting all my single cds back into alphabetical order by artist and mosaic sets by set number, which turned out to be a pretty big job. Once I got everything together I took photographs of each plastic box of single cd's (spines facing up) and each cardboard box of box sets - I highly recommend doing that, even pics of your shelves. You can do some types of search right from your desktop and in many cases the serial numbers are visible on the spine so you can confirm which edition you have.

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I obsess when I can't find a CD I'm looking for. Have probably rebought a dozen which I have found later. Latest was a Hampton Hawes CD I misfiled.

Well, I´m more into that funky sound of Prime Time now. I´m a bit tired of acoustic jazz I must admit. At least when I listen to music just as a listener.

Can't tell you how many times I bought a CD I already have. I think I know my collection until I'm at a store in another state and cannot remember if I have it. Most of the time, I don't, but when I am on the fly, I'm thinking, I am going to regret it, if I don't buy it now...then when I get home....

Looking forward to season 2 of Paradise.

I have a cabinet where I have put most of the single and double CDs that I've ripped in very thin plastic sleeves. As I rip them I give them a number and put them at the end of the drawer. So the drawer is in "when I ripped it" order. I actually spent the last year or so ripping and filing because I had done some, but not most, of what I owned before and then sort of gave up. Now pretty much everything is in that one cabinet except... I have various boxed sets (anything with 4+ disks) scattered around the house. But I isolate the ones I have not ripped yet in one cabinet so I can usually find them. I keep track of the serial numbers in iTunes/Apple Music, which stores all the ripped files. Now ... LPs are a different story.

Enrico Pieranunzi - Live in Paris (Challenge, 2005) with Hein Van de Geyn & André "Dédé" Ceccarelli

Just now discovering The Good Place. Streaming it all on Hulu. Wonderful show!!!

From The Complete Fontana Albums CD boxset. Sound is terrific.

I have my CD/CDr collection on an excel spread sheet. That way I know I have a particular CD or CDr but still have to find it. Generally, I file by artist or by label but sometimes I have to hunt for a while.