ciderglider
pfm Member
I've bought many things unheard, but guided by a review. One genuine punt was Propellers In Love by Arnold Dreyblatt And The Orchestra Of Excited Strings. Sadly it didn't live up to the promise of the title.
I do agree with this.It is exceptionally hard to find a bad jazz album on Blue Note, Impulse, Riverside, Prestige, Columbia, Verve, or Atlantic.
Discovered Tord Gustafsen by taking a punt on his first trio album, totally unheard and unknown. Been a fan ever since.
After my first real jazz album, A Sample Of Blue Notes mentioned on the recent compilation thread, itself a blind punt for £1.99, I swiftly concluded buying jazz blind was actually really, really easy. It is exceptionally hard to find a bad jazz album on Blue Note, Impulse, Riverside, Prestige, Columbia, Verve, or Atlantic.
Just beware of anything that mentions 'orchestra' or 'arranged by' on the sleeve.
My main trigger is versions of pop songs, e.g. if there is a Beatles cover it will stay in the rack (unless I’m just buying-in for the shop).
checking the value of charity shop CDs on Discogs is a common sight (and a practice which I still regard as 'cheating')
Bought this for, I think, 50p new in a remainder bin in a record shop in Beverley. Never heard of it , never heard of them and have no idea what made me buy it but I absolutely loved it at the time ( 52 years ago...where did that go ? ) It joined the likes of Black Sabbath , Deep Purple, Pink Floyd , Genesis, Vashti Bunyan and the Incredable String Band amongst others in my slight collection of records.
( This is the band called " Air " that I think of whenever the name is mentioned )
I need to check them out. Apparently they were Herbie Mann's backing band for a while.