it's really good to have a sister working at a thrift store..
so, faye calls me and tells me that they got a bunch of records in and she thinks i would like some of them. ok, i say, ill be up there before you close. i finish what im doing, eat some dinner, and go up to the thrift store at about 6:30(they close at 7). what she was talking about is this basket full of records, with a sign saying 25 cents each. there was a BASKET FULL, like a grocery basket, of old jazz records, and i wanted ALL of them(except for a little tiny bit towards the back of the basket). so, i look thru all of them, and by the time i got done it was ten til 7, and they were yelling at me thru the speaker to make my selection and come up to the register. so, i quickly pick thru the numerous COUNT BASIE records and choose a few, i get every one of the DIZZY GILLESPIE and LOUIS ARMSTRONG records, pick a couple of CHARLIE BARNET ones(ive never heard of him). i ignore the numerous DORSEY BROTHERS records, except one that shows someone playing a trombone, and get a hillarious looking mexican record from the 70's that was in the back section. seriously, if i didnt live at my parents house, i would have gotten every single on of them. the thing i hate about things like this is that i dont really know much about jazz, and when i come across an opportunity like that, i dont know what to get and what not to get. i know i love dizzy, and louie is a no brainer, but im not sure about count basie or charlie barnet or the dorsey brothers.
so, i take the 45 records that i had chosen up to the register, and faye is there ringing up somebody else, and she tells me to count them while she is doing that. so i start counting them and this other lady says she will ring me up. 25 cents for each of these records is a steal, a HUGE one, but before i finish counting the records, this lady tells me "looks about 50 cents worth", and only charges me 54 cents for all them. 54 CENTS! yeah. i am really excited. i dont know where im going to put them. my case is already overflowing. and since i dont have a digital camera to take a picture of them, i am going to list them all(cuz thats the kind of nerd i am):
COUNT BASIE:
01. BASIE AT BIRDLAND recorded live at "the jazz corner of the world"
02. BASIE JAM jam session at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
03. BROADWAY BASIE'S...WAY 1966
04. SESSIONS, LIVE count basie, joe williams and art blakey 1957/58
05. STRAIGHT AHEAD 1980
06. ONE O'CLOCK JUMP 1974
07. "FOR THE FIRST TIME" the count basie trio 1975
08. OUR SHINING HOUR Sammy Davis and Count Basie
DIZZY GILLESPIE:
01. SWING LOW, SWEET CADILLAC 1967
02. THE DIZZY GILLESPIE STORY 1984
03. THE BEST OF 1980
04. JAZZ Slim Gaillard with Dizzy Gillespie and Orchestra(only one side)
05. MONTREUX '77 Dizzy Gillespie Jam
06. DIGITAL AT MONTREUX, 1980 w/ Toots Thielemans and Bernard Purdie
07. THE GREATES OF 1961
08. DIZZY GILLESPIE Y MACHITO Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods 1976
09. AN ELECTRIFYING EVENING WITH THE D.G. QUINTET recorded live in concert 1961
10. THE TRUMPET SUMMIT Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry meets The
Oscar Peterson Big 4
11. THE DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG 7 AT THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL 1975
12. BAHIANA 1976
13. CARTER, GILLESPIE, INC. Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie with Joe Pass,
Tommy Flanagan, Mickey Roker, Al McKibbon 1976
14. THE ORIGINAL DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND IN CONCERT
15. OSCAR PETERSON & DIZZY GILLESPIE 1975
16. FREE RIDE Composed and Arranged by Lalo Schifrin 1977
17. DIZZY GILLESPIE'S BIG 4 1975
18. GROOVIN' HIGH Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker 1947
19. IN THE BEGINNING
20. GIL FULLER & THE MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Featuring Dizzy Gillespie
21. THE SONNY ROLLINS/SONNY STITT SESSIONS 1957
22. DIZZY ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA live at the rhird international festival of jazz
d'antibes, juan-les-pins(still in the plastic!!)
23. THE KING OF BOP 1945-46
24. THE REAL THING 1970
25. IT'S MY WAY 1969
26. DIZZY'S PARTY The Dizzy Gillespie 6 1977
LOUIS ARMSTRONG:
01. MAME
02. THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG SAGA 1972
03. AN EVENING WITH LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ALL STARS IN CONCERT 1956
04. SATCHMO AT SYMPHONY HALL Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
05. LOUIS Chicago Concert 1980
06. TREASURY 1973
07. LOUIS ARMSTRONG
PLUS:
01. ONE NIGHT STAND WITH CHARLIE BARNET AT THE PALLADIUM 1956
02. STEREOPHONIC SOUND OF "CHARLIE BARNET"
03. HOP ON THE SKYLINER!! with Charlie Barnet and his orchestra
04. REMEMBER TOMMY Tommy Dorsey 1973
05. PENAS Juan Bau 1976 (you have to see this one, the cover is hillarious,
i cant wait to listen to it)
so, i take the 45 records that i had chosen up to the register, and faye is there ringing up somebody else, and she tells me to count them while she is doing that. so i start counting them and this other lady says she will ring me up. 25 cents for each of these records is a steal, a HUGE one, but before i finish counting the records, this lady tells me "looks about 50 cents worth", and only charges me 54 cents for all them. 54 CENTS! yeah. i am really excited. i dont know where im going to put them. my case is already overflowing. and since i dont have a digital camera to take a picture of them, i am going to list them all(cuz thats the kind of nerd i am):
COUNT BASIE:
01. BASIE AT BIRDLAND recorded live at "the jazz corner of the world"
02. BASIE JAM jam session at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
03. BROADWAY BASIE'S...WAY 1966
04. SESSIONS, LIVE count basie, joe williams and art blakey 1957/58
05. STRAIGHT AHEAD 1980
06. ONE O'CLOCK JUMP 1974
07. "FOR THE FIRST TIME" the count basie trio 1975
08. OUR SHINING HOUR Sammy Davis and Count Basie
DIZZY GILLESPIE:
01. SWING LOW, SWEET CADILLAC 1967
02. THE DIZZY GILLESPIE STORY 1984
03. THE BEST OF 1980
04. JAZZ Slim Gaillard with Dizzy Gillespie and Orchestra(only one side)
05. MONTREUX '77 Dizzy Gillespie Jam
06. DIGITAL AT MONTREUX, 1980 w/ Toots Thielemans and Bernard Purdie
07. THE GREATES OF 1961
08. DIZZY GILLESPIE Y MACHITO Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods 1976
09. AN ELECTRIFYING EVENING WITH THE D.G. QUINTET recorded live in concert 1961
10. THE TRUMPET SUMMIT Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry meets The
Oscar Peterson Big 4
11. THE DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG 7 AT THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL 1975
12. BAHIANA 1976
13. CARTER, GILLESPIE, INC. Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie with Joe Pass,
Tommy Flanagan, Mickey Roker, Al McKibbon 1976
14. THE ORIGINAL DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND IN CONCERT
15. OSCAR PETERSON & DIZZY GILLESPIE 1975
16. FREE RIDE Composed and Arranged by Lalo Schifrin 1977
17. DIZZY GILLESPIE'S BIG 4 1975
18. GROOVIN' HIGH Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker 1947
19. IN THE BEGINNING
20. GIL FULLER & THE MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Featuring Dizzy Gillespie
21. THE SONNY ROLLINS/SONNY STITT SESSIONS 1957
22. DIZZY ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA live at the rhird international festival of jazz
d'antibes, juan-les-pins(still in the plastic!!)
23. THE KING OF BOP 1945-46
24. THE REAL THING 1970
25. IT'S MY WAY 1969
26. DIZZY'S PARTY The Dizzy Gillespie 6 1977
LOUIS ARMSTRONG:
01. MAME
02. THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG SAGA 1972
03. AN EVENING WITH LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ALL STARS IN CONCERT 1956
04. SATCHMO AT SYMPHONY HALL Louis Armstrong and the All Stars
05. LOUIS Chicago Concert 1980
06. TREASURY 1973
07. LOUIS ARMSTRONG
PLUS:
01. ONE NIGHT STAND WITH CHARLIE BARNET AT THE PALLADIUM 1956
02. STEREOPHONIC SOUND OF "CHARLIE BARNET"
03. HOP ON THE SKYLINER!! with Charlie Barnet and his orchestra
04. REMEMBER TOMMY Tommy Dorsey 1973
05. PENAS Juan Bau 1976 (you have to see this one, the cover is hillarious,
i cant wait to listen to it)