rostasi Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago Got an email saying these were freshly dropped jazz titles, so you may be interested. HERE Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted 39 minutes ago Posted 39 minutes ago https://www.discogs.com/digs/features/a-jazz-archive-comes-to-discogs A Pittsburgh Collector’s 70,000-Record Jazz Archive Comes to Discogs George spent decades building a 70,000-record jazz archive, and now it’s up for grabs. If you spent any time sifting through records around Pittsburgh in the last several decades, you likely brushed shoulders with George, a quiet fixture of the western Pennsylvania scene. Inside his home, he lived a modest life as a family man with a career, taking the bus everywhere rather than the car, but behind closed doors he curated a 70,000-record archive. George was primarily a jazz collector. During the 1970s and ’80s, when the genre’s popularity waned and Blue Note, Prestige, Strata-East, and Impulse! Records were relegated to the bargain bin, George thrived. He hunted mint copies with relentless dedication, stacking them in his listening room over decades. In his later years… (…continues at link up above, with a few pictures too!) Quote
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