2€ local charity shop.
Someone’s grandparent died I suppose, and they didn’t share their love for music. Luckily they brought it to a charity and didn’t dump it in the trash.
There was a collection of about 40 7" 45rpm jazz-singles from second half of the 1950s - first half of the 1960s, at 1 € a piece a lot of them well more than worth it! I bought almost all of them.
And also a 10" folder with 14 LP records in it. Among which, this is my very favorite: Saxes In Jazz. (short) LP with very chill jazz, almost entirely instrumental. The title is a bit misleading, because the best part about is the excellent Bass solo by Al Hall! Overall not very sax heavy actually, but very well balanced instrumentation. An excellent record to have a cake and a coffee with company over. Record condition somewhere between VG+ and NM, just like all the singles, plays perfectly no clics no nothing only very superficial hairlines visible with good light. Incredible haul!
Really, gems are often still out there for grabs at bargain prices! Keep checking local thrift stores and flea markets regurarly, before someone decides to clear a shelf of beautiful records into a garbage can!
Coleman Hawkins, Billy Strayhorn, Buddy Tate and others. Discogs days the original is from 1958. Sounds like it should sound great!
Around here, all I ever used to see in the shops like that was easy listening (Herb Alpert, Montovanni Strings, …} so I gave up.
plenty of herb alpert and his tijuana brass band here too :D
When I had more time than I do now, at a few of the local shops like that I went through a lot of the mess. The good thing: most of it barely moves. So now, a few years later, when I go there, I still notice pretty easily when a new batch got added. They tend to add it to the front of easy to reach shelves…
