How to Start a Jazz Collection

[mjzee]

This is actually pretty good:

http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Jazz-Collection

[JSngry]

How times have changed...

In the early 70s when I was getting started, it was "go to the cutout bins and dime stores and buy anything you see that even remotely looks like jazz".

At prices as low as 3/$1.00 & with all the then-recent catalog purges of the Liberty labels (Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, etc.) & other labels, it was a good strategy, and really, one that was viable until about 10 years ago or so. I know I could afford to be infinitely more curious @ $1.99 than I could @ $5.99...or $7.99....and especially $13.99....

[Cliff Englewood]

This is actually pretty good:

http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Jazz-Collection

It is, point 4 was very good, they forgot to mention that you will eventually need some deep pockets.

[captainwrong]

This was pretty much what I did years ago, although I started out between the cut out vinyl years and the used CD glut. I relied on the local library much more. They had, at the time, a huge jazz vinyl selection, including Mosaics and other expensive sets.

[JSngry]

This was pretty much what I did years ago, although I started out between the cut out vinyl years and the used CD glut.

Yeah, that ws sorta the same thing only different, if you know what I mean. A used CD usually costs more than a new LP did in all but the tail end of the vinyl era, but my earnings had increased as well, so the relative cost stayed roughly the same.

But man...coming out of a department store with an armful or two of jazz LPs, all of them "unfamiliar in some form or fashion, and some of them not to be readily available for decades to come - if even then - all for under $20.00, hey...that ws the shit.

Although, hell, now you can get it all for free, if that's the way you roll. so pardon my nostalgia.

[BruceH]

This is actually pretty good:

http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Jazz-Collection

You can do step #5 by joining a forum like this.