Which artist do you have the most CDs of?

[medjuck]

Duke: About 150 cd's including those in box sets

Miles about 50 plus all the box sets (Prestige and Columbia)

Gil Evans: Less than 50 and I'm an Evans completist. (Yes I've got the Johnny Mathis but I'm still looking for the Billy Butterfield "Singing the Blues".)

Dylan: About 50

Van Morrison: 30

Lady Day: The Decca, Columbia and Verve Box sets plus about 5 single cds

Colrane: All the Impulse and Atlantic but not the Prestige box .

Bird: Verve and 2 Savoy boxes plus a lot of live material. Can 't wait for the new Uptown

release.

Another interesting question would be "What single cut do you have the most duplicates of?" With me it's probably Hawkin's "Body & Soul". I think I have it on 5 different cds. After that would come the Django/Carter/Hawkins sessions from which I think I have at least some numbers on 4 different cds.

Edited March 24, 2004 by medjuck

[Patrick]

A performer that appears on many lists above, but not at the top of anyone's, is the most frequent in my (modest) collection: Monk (23). Miles is second (18), and then several of the usual suspects follow (Blakey, Mingus, etc.).

[paul secor]

I have more LPs than CDs. If I include those, it's probably Duke, then Cecil, with Bird, Trane, Monk, and Mingus following them.

[RDK]

Oh I have little doubt that one could own many times more than a hundred Duke recordings and find value in them all. He's one of my holy jazz trinity along with Mingus and Monk. The problem I have (for me) with having so many recordings by the same artist is that, when I'm out buying, I'm too eager to sample some other, less familiar artist's work... even one that I'm unlikely, when all is said and done, to enjoy as much.

[gdogus]

Miles Davis- 36

Bill Evans - 28

John Coltrane - 18

[Upright Bill]

Frank Zappa

Charles Mingus

Ray Brown

King Crimson

Miles Davis

[BruceH]

If you count both LP's and CD's, then Duke is the reigning champ of my collection. Last two purchases brought the total up to 113. EKE BBB can ya believe it?? When you said you had 111, I thought "Wow, he's a bigger fanatic than me." Then I realized that my figure of 66 Ellington discs was a count I did years ago. Recount brought the total to 111, then bought the recent re-issues, and we're still neck and neck. I didn't plan this, honest! If you count only CD's, then I'm down to 32 though. Easy come, easy go.

Other than Ellington, highest CD count would probably go to Mobley and Blakey. I knew I had gone a little overboard with Blakey when I counted 25 CD's. You may say that doesn't compare to the Duke total, but the Blakey's were bought over a mere year-and-a-half. That's seriously sick, for me. Thank God my wife doesn't read this board (I hope)!!

[EKE BBB]

If you count both LP's and CD's, then Duke is the reigning champ of my collection.  Last two purchases brought the total up to 113.  EKE BBB can ya believe it??  When you said you had 111, I thought "Wow, he's a bigger fanatic than me."

I said 113 (I don´t like palindromic numbers)

This means we´re level... at the moment

I also thank God my wife doesn´t read this board... though she can see the piles of recently purchased CDs I have all over the place

Edited March 24, 2004 by EKE BBB

[mrjazzman]

It's LTD, long tall Dexter Gordon, I own 70 cd's under his leadership. Obviously my favorite sax ophonist......mrjazzman

[Edward]

Ellington (~140 with some overlap)

Sinatra (~75)

Armstrong (~60 with significant overlap)

Nat Cole (~50)

Bob Dylan (~40)

U2 (~35)

[jazzmessenger]

Miles, then Jazz Messengers!!!

[scottb]

Miles 25

Blakey 15

Mobley 12

Morgan 10

Coltrane 10

J. Patton 10

J. Smith 10

[connoisseur series500]

Sheez, I can't count them. I don't have my cds alphabetized.

Probably Miles, Coltrane, Blakey, would lead the pack. Lots of artists with a dozen or more titles.

Would be easier to count everything. I think I've got around 700 cds. This is probably considered a small collection by most folks on this board, but I love every one of those cds! Also, I only own "jazz" stuff. No pop or classical.

[Tjazz]

Miles Davis: 97 (course, I want to sell the Montreaux box set, that should knock off 20)

Aren't the Sinatra box sets huge? Reprise (20), Capitol (16), Columbia (12), singles capitol box (4), Vset(2), wood Capitol box (16), reprise small set(4). That's 74 without counting any misc single CDs. (there's 16 duplicated with the two Capitol sets) (good thing I don't have the leather Reprise box set as another duplicate!)

Counted the Ellington section and was amazed to find 68.

There should be another Topic for the LP collections.

Edited March 24, 2004 by Tjazz

[scottb]

Ellington 1 (Money Jungle)

[Noj]

Ellington 1 (Money Jungle)

same here

[jazzbo]

What! Isn't that illegal?

Hell, I've got three copies of Money Jungle, and probably 200 plus others!

Edited March 24, 2004 by jazzbo

[BruceH]

This means we´re level... at the moment

If I hadn't ditched my RCA box it would be 137!

I'm going to calm down on Ellington purchases for a while, so I wave a fond farewell as you leave me in the dust.

[TedR]

Bruce, why did you get rid of your RCA box?

[BruceH]

Main reason: Didn't like the sound on the early discs.

I know it sounds extreme, but well...that's that.

[danasgoodstuff]

If we only count CDs and not LPs, it must be Miles: Prestige box (15?), box w/Coltrane (4?), box w/Gil (6), Live at the Blackhawk (4), 2nd Quitet box (4?), In a Silent Way box (3), BB box (4), JJ box (5), etc. If you count LPs too, it's probably still Miles, but not nearly as decisively.

[Tjazz]

If we only count CDs and not LPs, it must be Miles: Prestige box (15?), box w/Coltrane (4?), box w/Gil (6), Live at the Blackhawk (4), 2nd Quitet box (4?), In a Silent Way box (3), BB box (4), JJ box (5), etc. If you count LPs too, it's probably still Miles, but not nearly as decisively.

I think the Prestige box has (8).

I have an extra, anybody interested? (I didn't count it twice)

[BruceH]

Whoops! I said I had 25 Blakey CD's, but I just re-counted and came up with 31! Either I bought 6 more recently, or the last time I counted (just a few months ago) I did a sloppy job.

[danasgoodstuff]

Tjazz,

You're right, I must have been thinking of the LPs for the Miles Prestige box, but he's still in first for my CD collection....

[brownie]

Wish I had more of people like Herbie Nichols, Elmo Hope, Dupree Bolton, Joe Maini, Tina Brooks, Oscar Dennard, Carl Perkins, Charles Tyler, Jimmy Lyons...