Jazzy D's Soul Notes

It was a day of sunshine and showers and very windy.

I popped into town and sold some books to Kate at Past Sentence.

Had fish and chips with beer at my local pub.

Picked up two slices of vinyl from the 70s for a tenner.




The second on is Drastic Plastic by Be-Bop Deluxe. from 1978. This was Bill Nelson's band before he went solo. It is also their last album before breaking up. 

It has been another gloriously sunny day. 25C and blue skies all the way.

Been journeying again. Maidstone, Tonbridge, and Tunbridge Wells. Found this classic jazz-funk LP for a quid in an Oxfam chazzer.



It is from 1982. A good album indeed to have in the collection.

When I started listening to music and buying albums it was back in the seventies when it was just vinyl or cassettes and that was it -forget the eight-track cartridge - they were unreliable on the whole and awkward.

Since 1986 CD became the standard - but I resisted for a few years as vinyl was still relatively cheap and plentiful, and CD's initially expensive. Then once I discovered the generally superior sound of the CD, its compact size, and the fact that a whole two sides of an album can fit on it plus more, vinyl was on the way out.

Now in 2019 vinyl is back with a bang and shops are open devoted to just that format, whilst shops like HMV have a large section devoted to vinyl, and whilst it has been growing for a good few years, and I am happy to see vinyl back,what stops me most going back to it,is this -

They are just too expensive when compared to the CD version. £20 to £30 for vinyl is just way too much for me when I can get five CD's for same said price. I do like the idea of vinyl, as it is fun to own, and looks cool. However, compared to a CD it is so much more fragile.  Vinyl will wear out. I do have some vinyl, all found secondhand for reasonable prices, for example, the Michael Jackson Thriller LP I found for only five quid! Also, I would not play vinyl on any cheap deck such as those foisted for around fifty bucks, and thus for now and  the foreseeable future I am staying with the practical and superior CD.

The only reason for buying new vinyl would be for a new recording reviewed in Wire that is only available on vinyl.

For other views follow the links -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOfkM0f5Zc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVVTJejmpw

As I walked into town today to post off a couple of items I sold on eBay, I noticed that a new shop had opened up, and an all vinyl record shop in fact. I had to take some pics





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Also, it is competition for the long-established Hatton Hall shop - the one with the cat that likes to sit on the vinyl or DVD's outside.

Another indicator of the resurgence of vinyl.

Some of the rarer LP's that were not sold the other day.



All keepers.Thus a selction of tracks from each -

Charles Tolliver and Music Inc - Effi (Live)



( More jazz here )

Zaf Loves Vinyl record collection interview at The Boiler Room. features Joni Mitchell and Prince.

https://boilerroom.tv/recording/collections-zaf-love-vinyl/#/video

Fascinating.

Thanks to sallymn for poitig out this link to me -

1,000 Hours of Early Jazz Recordings Now Online: Archive Features Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington & Much More

http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/vast-archive-presents-1000-hours-of-early-jazz-recordings-a-great-resource-for-jazz-novices-aficionados.html

.. and them some more by myself -


Jazz Archive from 1960’s London Clubs

https://jazzarchive.tumblr.com/

And if you still have vinyl and love vinyl -


How much might your old LPs be worth?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03lhptj?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=vinylvalue&intc_linkname=radio4_fac_audioclip1

NEW MUSIC ON VINYL: EVERYBODY LOVES IT, BUT IT DOESN’T MAKE MUCH SENSE

http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/new-music-on-vinyl-everybody-loves-it-but-it-doesnt-make-much-sense/

I tend to agree.

Featured in the current Wire magazine was the usual section of the best reissues as well as the releases of 2015. One of them they highlighted was this to die for box set of Harmonia.




Unboxing Harmonia - Complete Works, limited edition box set.
Released in October 2015 on the label Grönland from Herbert Grönemeyer.

Harmonia was a Krautrock supergroup consisting of: Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster and Michael Rother of NEU! In 1976 they were briefly joined by Brian Eno.

The Vinyl Box Set contains:
- 6 vinyl lps (one record previously unreleased)
- a 36-page booklet
- a concert poster
- a pop-up and a digital download code

The box set contains the following records:

Musik von Harmonia
Deluxe
Harmonia Live 1974
Harmonia & Eno '76 Tracks And Traces Reissue
Documents - 1975 -

My eyes are going gaga at these collectors of vinyl photo collection -

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/the-15-most-photogenic-record-collections-of-2015-readers-special/