Bill Nelson

I use the same system described by Paul Secor: 1. ALL jazz artists are alphabetized, and 2. Each artist's ouput is arranged chronologically. Various Artists are at the end, arranged by record label. Not terribly difficult or anal. I've heard of one collector who files his LPs strictly in the order he acquired them. (I'd love to go thru his bag at a record show and then 'shuffle the deck' when he wasn't looking).

Got mine during the early (1985-87) wave of Polygram GEMA CDs which were briefly distributed stateside prior to establishing U.S. manufacturing plants. These initial jazz CD titles seemed to be plucked almost randomly from the MPS and Verve catalogs. They all say: "Made in W. Germany by Polygram" and the clear plastic of the jewel cases is extra sturdy. 'The Hub of Hubbard' teams Freddie and drummer Louis Hayes with three members of the Jones-Lewis big band (Eddie Daniels, Roland Hanna, Richard Davis) who were touring Europe in late '69 and had paused in Villingen, Germany to record small-group sessions at MPS. This one cooks the hardest, with 'Just One of Those Things' a ripper at breakneck speed. The dull front cover artwork seems to put some buyers off -- I've had to kick some of my jazz buddys to get them to buy the vinyl. I bought my CD in '87 and would've snagged extras because of the high level of musicianship and the MPS recording quality. This 1970 album finds Hubbard between his Atlantic and CTI contracts -- just over a month before his sessions for 'Red Clay'. He would not record a straightahead jazz LP again until 1980, when Columbia let him go. ("Free at last!")