Jazz offer.

[Al ears]

Any chance that one of your local stockists could order one for you, BBB? Or have a ring round?

Worth a try. They were either very popular or the stockists didn't get many in. As I said I only found one shop that did have them and bought the last one.

I'd be very interested to see what their turnover is once they become full priced at £14.99.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Any chance that one of your local stockists could order one for you, BBB? Or have a ring round?

I'm honestly not that bothered, I have a 80s/90s reissue copy anyway. I was more interested in having a look at it really, and according to the website, there's plenty more stockist nearby. I'll have another look tomorrow.

 

[Feral]

Just picked up my copy today, will be interesting to see how it stacks up against my other copy.

It would be nice to know as my only other copy is on a SACD disc.

really annoyed, can't find the original although very happy with the quality of the vinyl. On the plus side found a copy of Miles Davis - The Orginal Quintet (first recording) on the prestige label so will give that a few spins but need to clean the disc and has a lot of scratches.

 

[thescarletpronster]

Thanks to plastic penguin for starting this thread, and to those who said the pressing was good and who provided links to stockists. I picked up a copy on Friday, and listened to it today. Am very happy. Especially for a fiver!

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

After seeing what TSP had written, I decided to check another stockist (Asda), and they only had about 15 copies, so it would have been rude not to have taken one away.

I've got it on the turntable now, and it has the slightest of warps, but nothing to worry about, and as others have said, it sounds good, and definitely worth a fiver.

There's some good other titles to come, but I already have a Blue Note reissue of the Coltrane album, and there's a big difference between £5 and £15, so I probably won't be buying any after this.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

If anyone is interested, there will be 80 titles in total, and they are:

1. Kind of blue – Miles Davis
2. Blue train – Coltrane
3. Standards vol I – Keith Jarrett
4. Lady in satin – Billie Holiday
5. Now’s the time – Charlie Parker
6. Time out – Dave Brubeck
7. Somethin’ else – Julian Cannonball Addery
8. Waltz for debbie – Bill Evans
9. Ella and Louis – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
10. Something else!!! – Ornette Coleman
11. It could happen to you – Chet Baker
12. saxophone colossus – Sonny Rollins
13. out to lunch – Eric Dolphy
14. money jungle – Duke Ellington
15. getz-gilberto – Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
16. brillant corners – Thelonious Monk
17. mingus ah um – Charles Mingus
18. Go – Dexter Gordon
19. Moanin’ – Art Blakey
20. Bright Size Light – Pat Metheny Group
21. Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown – Sarah Vaughan
22. Sketches Of Spain – Miles Davis
23. Speak no evil – Wayne Shorter
24. Meets Oscar Peterson – Ben Webster
25. The Wee Small Hours – Frank Sinatra
26. Turner The Real McCoy – McCoy Tyner
27. Incredible! – Wes Montgomery
28. The Blues and – Oliver Nelson
29. Indeed – Lee Morgan
30. Liberation M. O. – Charlie Haden
31. Meets The Rytmhm S – Art Pepper
32. in Greenwich Village – Albert Ayler
33. Laughin’ to keep – Lester Young
34. Study in Brown – Cliffort Brown & Max Roach
35. Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin’
36. What is there to say – Gerry Mulligan Quartet
37. Coleman Hawkins – Night Hawk
38. Modern Jazz – Quartet Django
39. Lee Konitz – Motion
40. Max Roach – Deeds not wars
41. Quebec Ike – Blue & Sentimental
42. Count Basie – Count Basie at Newport
43. Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz
44. Benny Carter – Further definitions
45. Joe Henderson – Page One
46. Horace Silver – Song for my father
47. Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
48. Kenny Burrell – Midnight blue
49. Ahmad Jamal – But not for me/At the Pershing
50. Sonny Rollins – The Bridge
51. Nina Simone – Nina Simone at Village Gate
52. Stephane Grappelli – Afternoon in Paris
53. Dinah Washington – In the land of Hi Fi
54. Gene Ammons – The soul moods
55. Joe Pass – For Django
56. Gil Evans – Out of the cool
57. Art Tatum & Ben Webster – The album/The Art
58. Freddie Hubbard – Ready For Freddie
59. Kirk Roland – We fee Kings
60. Wayne Shorter – The Soothsayer
61. Ella Fitzgerald in Rome – Ella Fitzgerald in Rome
62. Lee Morgan – The sidewinder
63. Jimmy Smith – House Party
64. Shirley Horn – Travelin’ night
65. Archie Shepp – On This Night
66. Etta Jones – Don’t Go to Strangers
67. Lee Konitz – Duets
68. Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong plays N.C. Handy
69. Paul Desmond – Take Ten
70. Abbey Lincoln – Abbey is Blue
71. Miles Davis Milestone – Miles Davis
72. Art Blakey Drum suite – Art Blakey
73. Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
74. Wrapped Tight – Coleman Hawkins
75. Along Came John – Big John Patton
76. Lady sings the blues – Billie Holiday Lady sings the blues
77. Night Train – Oscar Peterson Trio
78. Webster & Associates – Ben Webster
79. Plays Misty – Erroll Garner
80. Much in common – Ray Brown & Milton Jackson

 

[Al ears]

Mine too had a slight warp to outer edge but nothing dramatic. Quiet and apparently well recorded otherwise.

I'd put this down to transportation and storage (most people will have forgotten how to do that).

That's a nice list if you're into or getting into jazz and, assuming future issues are of the same quality as this first one, then £14.99 is not really a bad price to pay.