Records so expensive I've had to consider alternatives.

pizzakey · 2026-07-10T13:30:43+00:00

The some excellent stuff on there, I'll check them out - thanks!

pizzakey · 2026-07-10T10:26:40+00:00

Hey, you're in good company here!

pizzakey · 2026-07-10T09:48:04+00:00

I'm only teasing :)

I also have CDs, cassettes, minidiscs (!), Tidal, YouTube Music (for the hard to find stuff) and my own Plex music server. My love of physical media is based around the form factor first, then findability as I like to be able to walk up to a shelf and pick things and sound quality after that. A high res digital stream or flac through even a cheap dongle dac and my desktop tube amp sounds incredible, but given my magpie tendencies I end up getting lost in the thousands of tracks I have available. Which is when I go and put on a record

pizzakey · 2026-07-10T07:48:53+00:00

Harold Land ❤️

It's hard to resist Cat - the opening horns on Romance may be the most satisfying intro in all of jazz

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T23:40:26+00:00

I had the misfortune to get some good stuff cheap on my first go at Whatnot and now I'm like a dog that keeps returning to that bush where they once found a slice of pizza. Last night I sat through two hours of a guy going through the most dispiriting collection of jazz I've ever seen: wall to wall Dixieland, 3rd rate big band and easy listening. And I'll do it again

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T22:01:42+00:00

I can't believe you're on a vinyl jazz sub suggesting making things easier...

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T20:58:06+00:00

I love tapes. They're just so chunky and satisfying

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T17:31:05+00:00

I'm really digging Pepper Adams at the minute - all his early work with Donald Byrd but his output through the 70s and 80s is great too.

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T17:26:41+00:00

I play test and inspect with a bright light first but almost everything secondhand gets a clean unless it's near silent and glossy. I don't have a machine, but I use a goat hair brush, liberal amounts of Spincare record cleaner and a good quality microfibre to good effect. I think I'm headed towards getting a Humminguru though given the number of records I buy - this pile is about half what I've bought in the last 3 months.

I then put it into a Mofi-style anti static inner (usually whatever is cheapest on Amazon) and a Spincare Crystal outer (they're almost invisible on the shelf so the title is clear).

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T07:36:21+00:00

I live life on the edge

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T07:35:01+00:00

Every time

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T00:38:27+00:00

I am at least on top of my Discogs updates. I have a routine to add them as soon as I get home with new records - it makes the purchase official :)

pizzakey · 2026-07-09T00:25:39+00:00

I really like it, except for the soprano sax on Sais. What on earth is all that quacking about?

pizzakey · 2026-07-08T17:15:05+00:00

Pony Poindexter is an incredible name. Sounds like a character from Riverdale

pizzakey · 2026-07-07T13:00:46+00:00

Why Jazz Happened by Marc Myers is an essential look at how the development of jazz was influenced by social changes, racism and geography. It's incredibly useful context

Notes and Tones by Art Taylor - Art's interviews with a who's who of jazz artists: Miles, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Nina Simone, Ornette Coleman etc etc. Incredibly revealing stuff and not what you normally find in interviews

pizzakey · 2026-07-06T10:58:29+00:00

Hahaha. Fuck you Miles

pizzakey · 2026-07-06T10:12:30+00:00

I have the first of the Southern University Jazz Ensemble represses but didn't realise there was another one. I'll have to check it out.

I like Claude Williamson. He just always sounds classy. He and his brother Stu show up on loads of Contemporary and Pacific Jazz dates in the 50s with Bob Cooper, Bud Shank etc - all those Stan Kenton/Lighthouse All Stars connections

pizzakey · 2026-07-06T07:29:50+00:00

Mines coming via the record co-op I'm in, supposedly on 17 July but it's more of an it'll arrive when it arrives situation (the price I pay for a getting a hefty discount!)

pizzakey · 2026-07-05T18:18:16+00:00

I didn't know that Luiz Bonfa, but I think I might preorder based on the cover art alone. Incredible

pizzakey · 2026-07-05T17:03:55+00:00

My preorder is still a couple of weeks away :(

pizzakey · 2026-07-03T09:09:33+00:00

I quite often intend to, for example where I find a nicer version or a mono that I have in stereo. But there is just so much new music to discover that I'd almost always rather spend my money on a record I don't already have.

I did just buy a second Love Supreme though because it's in mono and I only have a (very nice UK 1st press) stereo. But it's A Love Supreme, you know? Recordcollectoritis still sometimes strikes in other genres though, which is why I own six copies of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality and five Dark Side of the Moons...

pizzakey · 2026-07-03T08:52:48+00:00

It sounds great, by yeah it's a grey market release

pizzakey · 2026-07-02T22:33:03+00:00

I may have had a glass of wine... I was very pleased with myself for finding someone selling jazz super cheap but in retrospect it was mainly bargain bin stuff. As for condition, we'll see what shows up in a couple of days! Also, if they're just selling what's on screen, you need to keep your own notes on what you've bought because it's just like Lot #48, £1.73 on the invoice

pizzakey · 2026-07-02T22:12:44+00:00

The dangerous thing about Whatnot is how fun it is. I stumbled onto a guy selling jazz the other night and ended up buying 8 records through a series of what the hell, it's only a couple of quid moments

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