Jazzy D's Soul Notes

All are classical from Sunburst Books in Rainham -






All for a total of three pounds. 

My first day of work of the New Year. I popped over to Strood end of Medway City today. Had to do one of these one-pound store visits. I also popped into Rainham to Sunburst Books and bought three classical CDs for a quid.

These are –
Mussorgsky – Pictures At An Exhibition (Ravel orch.)




Max Bruch – Symphony no.1



Saxophone Concertos (Marco Polo CD)



It was a sunny but very cold day, just reached 6C during the afternoon.

Well, no more work till next week. I do have some online work though which means I do not have to travel in the cold.

In Rainham outside the record shop, there was a big box of LPs, any of which you could select to take for free, including classical. I found these three -



Inside the charity bookshop just a few doors away I found three classical CDs for a quid, of which two were still sealed.




And from the Oxfam shop in Gillingham   some CDs for 20 pence each!!!







Definitely a great day for finding great music cheap.

I was going to post the other finds tomorrow but I decided to do that now -

Just one book and a few CDs at around fifty pence each. The book was a quid.





That is now complete. 

As you walk up from Rainham station towards the main road, the A2, you will come across a bookshop. It does not look much from the outside but inside it is a cornucopia of books and CDs!

This is where I get all my classical CDs for "three for a quid". This also means that their DVDs are also three for a quid and you can mix them with the CDs.





Loads of Naxos labels here. Pop and other music to the left.



More classical, some on Marco Polo label and other stuff like soundtracks and so on.



Even more CDs here and these draws in the cabinet contain even more CDs of all  genres.



Plus more CDs, boxsets and books.

You could easily spend all day there perusing!!

As mentioned here is the haul from yesterday.

Ten CDs at twenty pence each and three a quid each - via Oxfam and another charity shop.




Alison Krauss - A Hundred Miles Or More (Rounder)
Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 : Leningrad Phil/Mravinsky (DG)
Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite, Concerto For Orchestra : Philharmonia Hungarica/Dorati (Decca)
Haydn - Symphonies 45,47 & 48: Philharmonia Hungarica/Dorati (Decca)
Bheki Mseleku - Timelessness (Verve)
Bach - Goldberg Variations: Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi)
Fats Waller - And His Rhythm 1934 to 1936 (BBC)
Various - Ladies Jazz It Up (NPR)
Frank O'Shea - Alkimia (Azulah)
Various - The Rough Guide To Salsa (World Music Network)
Bah Samba - Bah Samba (Estereo)
Various - Harlem Shuffle (Charly)
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (Fish People)


Fun filled listening days ahead!

Now then, whilst CD cases can be problematical, the cardboard packaged ones can present even more problems. CD packaging in general can be infuriating, but now we address a specific problem: how to get the damn discs out of their absurd package. Hurwitz investigated this and the winning implement may surprise you -

Music Chat: CD Surgery--Extracting Discs from Stupid Packaging



I have similar problems with Bob Dylan's Rough And Rowdy Ways CD and that Prince Purple Rain triple Cd and DVD set in similar awkward packing.

It has been a long day with a horrible rainy start followed through by a windy warmer and sunnier afternoon.

I had an exit poll survey to do in Folkestone today which meant catching the bus sometime after seven in the morning to get there. Fours work interviewing customers with a head visor on.

I feel right knackered at the moment. Just had a shower which helped and some chili dish.

At least I came out with a large haul of CDs after the survey before going home. All a quid or less.

These are -

Dianne Reeves - I Remember (Blue Note)
Sarah Vaughan - THe George Gerswhin Songbook (Roulette)
Tony Remy - Metamorfollowing (All Note)
Count Basie - Basie's Bounce (Charly)
Steve Coleman And Five Elements - Def Trance Beat (Novus)
Ruben Gonzales - Introducing (World Circuit)
Buckshot Lafunque - Buckshot Lafunque (Columbia)
John Mayall - The Turning Point (Polydor)
Cressida - Cressida / Asylum (BGO)

Got some relaxing and listening to do.

Thankfully doing nothing tomorrow.

Well, another cool day with some sunshine. Still too cold, so I had a spicy hot chilli dish with rice, and overdid the ghost chillis a bit. However, it did warm me up no end!

I was listening to Schubert lieder in the morning and then some knotty Elliott Carter string quartets. Then on a different tack, I listened to the new Paul McCartney CD .. eh what you say .. yep, Paul. It came out in December 20202 during the lockdown and all the instruments on the CD are played by him and got a review in Wire magazine in the February issue.







I love the album. Just 44 mins. long but already high in rotation on my system. Comes in a cardboard sleeve which CD has no inner sleeve. Why do they not include an inner sleeve these days as CD is liable to get scratched if not carefully inserted etc?

On to some classic Van Morrison albums in my collection. Well, actually just three at the moment and I know he did some great albums and some less so. The Wire did a best of the Van article back in the early nineties. Checking - Yes, October 1991.

The following CDs -

Pelican - March To Th Sea EP
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Kate Bush - Aerial

Heavy metal rock to jazz and indie-pop gal.