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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!)

 

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I don't get how they can list a sealed record with absolute certainty of what is inside of the shrinkwrap. There are a couple of sealed Blue Note records with cut corners and the release page lists particulars you could not know unless the record was opened.

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