Don't get me wrong I've got a good share of "real jazz" records in my collection. Blue Note, Impulse,Prestige, Verve, and Bluebird are all amongst my favorite labels of all time. For many those labels produced the records that are the standards by which jazz is judged. Buyers and critics alike (not everyone)pretty much dismiss records that came out after 1965. I know what I like in classic jaz...
MOG Funk Fu Master, "Bartleby":http://mog.com/Bartleby does these posts called under the diamond where he recaps what he's been listening to. I am going to blatantly copy that now. Between EMCD's on MOG, CD's I think to buy myself, blogs, and Multi, I figure I've upped my collection by some 10,000 tracks in the last 3 months. This crazed acquisition phase has most certainly been a detrimental fact
Don't get me wrong I've got a good share of "real jazz" records in my collection. Blue Note, Impulse,Prestige, Verve, and Bluebird are all amongst my favorite labels of all time. For many those labels produced the records that are the standards by which jazz is judged. Buyers and critics alike (not everyone)pretty much dismiss records that came out after 1965. I know what I like in classic jaz...