What music did you buy today?

[BillF]

My cheapest new purchase ever! £3 at Fopp. And why have we heard so little of Ted Brown?

Fopp is great for £3 to £5 specials. Really miss the Bath store, where you could pick up much of the Blue Note/Capitol catalogue and CBS/Sony stuff for £5. Got some truly great deals there. At least the Bristol store up by the University is still operating and doing the £3 deals. Not quite as accessible for me though.

I haven't bothered with Fopp in Manchester recently - not since they were "HMV-ised". HMV's promise of allowing them to trade as before seems to have crumbled and the jazz stock has now been reduced to the pathetic collection you can find in their owner's store up the road.

[colinmce]

A steal at about $10 for the pair, methinks.

[JohnJ]

My cheapest new purchase ever! £3 at Fopp. And why have we heard so little of Ted Brown?

Fopp is great for £3 to £5 specials. Really miss the Bath store, where you could pick up much of the Blue Note/Capitol catalogue and CBS/Sony stuff for £5. Got some truly great deals there. At least the Bristol store up by the University is still operating and doing the £3 deals. Not quite as accessible for me though.

I haven't bothered with Fopp in Manchester recently - not since they were "HMV-ised". HMV's promise of allowing them to trade as before seems to have crumbled and the jazz stock has now been reduced to the pathetic collection you can find in their owner's store up the road.

The prices are much better though! At the FOPP in Covent Garden I picked up 'Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia' for 10 pounds and Sonny Rollins 'Road Shows Vol. 1' for 3 pounds.

[BillF]

My cheapest new purchase ever! £3 at Fopp. And why have we heard so little of Ted Brown?

Fopp is great for £3 to £5 specials. Really miss the Bath store, where you could pick up much of the Blue Note/Capitol catalogue and CBS/Sony stuff for £5. Got some truly great deals there. At least the Bristol store up by the University is still operating and doing the £3 deals. Not quite as accessible for me though.

I haven't bothered with Fopp in Manchester recently - not since they were "HMV-ised". HMV's promise of allowing them to trade as before seems to have crumbled and the jazz stock has now been reduced to the pathetic collection you can find in their owner's store up the road.

The prices are much better though! At the FOPP in Covent Garden I picked up 'Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia' for 10 pounds and Sonny Rollins 'Road Shows Vol. 1' for 3 pounds.

OK. Point taken!

[sidewinder]

Ah - the FOPP Covent Garden. That's the one on Shaftesbury Avenue isn't it? Picked up a copy of the ECM tome by Steve Lake there only last week for £10. Reduced from £45.

[save0904]

Stan Getz Sweet Rain

[save0904]

Lee Konitz Thingin'

I really stretched my budget this month, so hopefully this is the last MUST have for this month :-)

[BillF]

Thanks for the idea, Bev!

[A Lark Ascending]

Thank you, Bill!

It was your posting of the 'Only the Blues' album (on as I type) that sent me in search to Fresh Sound.

I know some feel listing albums listened to is pointless but I find it an endless source of interest, alerting me to things I'd otherwise miss.

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Picked up what looks to be a very cool LP at a local goodwill type store for a dollar.

Kansas City Suite

Count Basie and his Orchestra

The music of Benny Carter

Label: Forum

Edited July 18, 2010 by slide_advantage_redoux

[JSngry]

[sidewinder]

A few purchases at Swanage:

[Dave James]

A couple of OOP Mosaics:

[colinmce]

I passed the Quebec/Hardee up a couple months ago for $20. I don't think I'll ever stop kicking myself for that. Stupid, stupid.

[BruceH]

Cannonball Adderley Quintet In New York

[ejp626]

I passed the Quebec/Hardee up a couple months ago for $20. I don't think I'll ever stop kicking myself for that. Stupid, stupid.

Astonishingly enough the Chicago Public Library has multiple sets of this (someone in the music collection was obviously an early supporter of Mosaic), and between them, I was able to find clean sides to listen to (yes, I gave them back).

I'm pretty sure they had the Ike Quebec 45s on LP as well, and I checked them out, but I don't see these any longer in the catalog. Either the catalog is wrong, the library de-accessioned them after getting the CDs for the reference music collection or someone couldn't resist temptation. All reasonably likely.

[BillF]

Paul Gonsalves, Gettin' Together (OJC/Jazzland)

[B. Goren.]

[BruceH]

A couple of CD's I ordered online just came over the transom---Southern Scene/The Riddle (Brubeck) and the aforementioned Adderley Sextet in New York. About that last, when somebody mentioned it recently on the board I thought surely I must have the album, but a look through my collection proved that I did not, strangely enough. Newbury Comics soon cured THAT.

[Matthew]

The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker. I'm really loving Bird right now, and I need everything I can get...

Edit: To add picture

Edited July 24, 2010 by Matthew

[BillF]

Compositions and arrangements by Bill Holman

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Jimmy Smith - Prayer Meetin' / Blue Note 4164 (slap me, I paid $1.00)

Lou Donaldson - Mr Shing-A-Ling / Blue Note (liberty)

Milt Buckner (quintet) - Send me Softly / Capitol

Buck Clayton - Songs for Swingers / Columbia

Red Nichols and the Five Pennies - Blues and Old-Time Rags / Capitol

London Symphony - Alban Berg: Lulu Suite, Altenberg Lieder, Three Pieces for Orchestra / Deutsch Grammophon

Edited July 24, 2010 by slide_advantage_redoux

[DMP]

From one of those ubiquitous "oldies.com" sales, 5 Ellington "Reprise" titles. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

[Head Man]

Recorded live at percussionist Mike Mahaffy's performance space, Sunrise Studio in NYC on September 28, 1975.

Ted Daniel (trumpet, flugelhorn, French hunting horn, tambourine

Richard Pierce (bass)

Tatsuya Nakamura (trap drums, quarter drums);

Congeniality (18:41) - Ornette Coleman

Jiblet (17:05) - Sunny Murray

The Moor (9:51) - Ted Daniel

O.C. (9:23) - Ted Daniel

Turned out better than I expected. Very nice!

[RD44]

the Stuff Smith Mosaic for £20 s/h - a bargain!