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What's with the records?
salada:
my reasons:
- it's cheap! (markets and op-shop stuff, at least)
- it has (good, big) cover art!
- that crackly hiss when you first put the needle down, just before the music starts
- my housemate's duke ellington collection
Kai:
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Whoa, hang on, what the fuck?! Would you care to qualify that statement, La Creme, by explaining what you consider to be "great" jazz? The jazz- reissue industry is insanely active at the moment - I have several hundred jazz C.D.s, including a very healthy chunk of what I would consider to be the greatest jazz recordings ever made - Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charles Mingus, Lester Young . . . etc, etc. And each of them are direct reissues of original vinyl albums.
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For every good jazz album on cd, there's about 190 on vinyl. Just ask These guys. So much jazz on vinyl, you can't even listen to it all. I'm not kidding.
Also, the owner of that store is an amazing guy.
Inlander:
Sure, but the rate at which jazz is reissued on C.D. is phenomenal. And I'd argue that most of the truly great recordings are pretty easily available now - often in several different forms (for better or for worse). Also, for a lot of the old recordings - Bix Beiderbecke, early Louis Armstrong, etc. - the sound quality on the recent C.D. reissues is unbelievable. Just listen to Columbia's reissue of its Charlie Christian recordings.
Kai:
Well that's great to hear that Jazz is being put onto cd. The only problem is, the cd stores around here carry little other than the more mainstream of music, which doesn't tend to have much of a jazz section, and I rarely buy things online. So if I want jazz, I usually have to get it on vinyl.
Also, Miles Davis rocks my socks.
BusterKeaton:
First off whoever started the post (too lazy to check) im presuming to be a younger person, Vinyl will never die because,
1-Its cool, referencing and owning music on such an old format makes it sound like you have historian-like musical knowledge
2-The sound, im not gonna start the analogue/digital debate. But i sincerely like the sound of vinyl, Its just warm and more broad not so filtered and overly perfect.
3-The content, Despite best efforts there are some rare classics that will never see a cd release but if you dig around you might just find that classic album youve been looking for.
Vinyl promotes a love for music in many ways,
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