Oldest CD in your collection

[Claude]

i do remember having a time trying to figure out how to open a jewel case!

Me too

[Claude]

"My Favorite Things" by John Cortrain

Japanese version?

Or chinese

[chris olivarez]

Santana-Spirits Dancing In The Flesh

[sidewinder]

i do remember having a time trying to figure out how to open a jewel case!

Not to mention endless battles with thin cardboard boxes. The Blue Note ones were particularly impervious.

[chris olivarez]

They were definitely a pain in the butt to try and open in the beginning.

[B. Clugston]

Mine was Soft Machine's The Peel Sessions, a 2 CD set of BBC performances. The Hendrix at Winterland was another early purchase.

First "jazz" discs were Brubeck's The Great Concerts and Getz/Gilberto.

[Big Al]

Just stumbled over a CD I bought the same summer as the other three in my first post:

Artie Shaw - BEGIN THE BEGUINE (Bluebird)

Liner notes by Chris Albertson, which I guess this also means that of the few jazz writings in my collection, I've had Albertson's the longest!

[DTMX]

1987: Bought The Ultimate Otis Redding and Songs to Learn and Sing by Echo & the Bunnymen. Then the Marvin Gaye Anthology, and a few weeks later Talking Heads' Naked.

After a few more months I had saved up enough money to buy a CD player. That's when I was able to hear them for the first time (the first on my block with one of them compactified doodad players).

[Jazz Kat]

Well let's see, had Hank Mobley's No Room For Squares for about 3 months now...

[dave9199]

The Beatles-Please Please Me

[mrjazzman]

Although it was Afro Blue and The Promise from Trane's Live At Birdland that hooked me on jazz at approx 15(can't hear the avant-garde stuff today), the first two cd's I purchased were A Night At Birdland Vol.'s 1&2 by Art Blakey in '97 1800 cd's ago..................