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Glaring Omissions

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By all accounts, I'm a certified jazz lover and fanatic.

However, there are several jazz greats that one should have in his collection, if one calls himself an aficionado. So, at the risk of being kicked out of this forum, I will list the greats that one might think essential to a jazz collection....that are missing from my collection. I have over 4,000 albums, the vast majority of which is jazz.

I was introduced to jazz while in college in 1971. I was dependent on my friends and the local jazz station for my exposure to new music. If the station didn't play it, I had no access. So, a lot of the guys on my list didn't get any airplay, consequently I wasn't exposed to them.

Nat King Cole.......(I do have several Freddy Cole albums)

Billie Holiday......(Her voice makes my skin crawl & too much melancholy in her music.)

*Stan Getz...........I just never got around to it.

Duke Ellington......I've just never heard any of his recordings that I cared to buy.

Louis Armstrong......Just not my cuppa tea.

*Chet Baker...........Just never got around to it.

Charlie Parker.......I couldn't get past the poor audio quality of the recordings that I've heard.

Charles Mingus... I've never heard a Mingus recording in my life.

*Lester Young.....They never played him on the radio.

*Coleman Hawkins...They never played him on the radio.

*Gerry Mulligan....Just never got around to it.

I do plan to make an effort to familiarize myself with those that have an asterisk (*) before their name above.

I already own more music than I have time to listen to. That, and an addiction to Pandora, doesn't leave much room for new stuff.

Do you have any glaring omissions?
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Czarivey, I am now 60 years old and grew up with the Beatles. I didn't care much for their music when I was a teenager and when they were hot. However, after I turned 30, and nearly 15 years after they broke up, everything became clear and I bought everything that they ever recorded.

I discovered the Beatles' genius through jazz. Since I was a jazz lover, a lot of jazz musicians included Beatle songs in their repertoire. I enjoyed the jazz interpretations, so I thought I'd go back to the original source....and became a huge Beatle fan. I completely missed out on the whole Bealtlemania thing.
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czarivey
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Mitch,
mmm... Beatles maybe because there's certainly some music there. For me it's simply too obsolete and trivial to come back to although been enjoying it decades back.

I'm fan of David Sylvian and Japan probably more than you to Beatles: all records and CDs ever released including interviews, books, 12" singles, 45's, posters, more posters, back-stage pass, T-s, photos(one is with me) videos and signatures of artists. Have 6'long dedicated shelf only with David Sylvian and Japan members!
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Czarivey, never heard any of Sylvians' music. I just looked him up on Wikipedia. Can you recommend a couple of jazz-tinged albums by him. I'd like to check him out.
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czarivey
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His albums are almost all jazz-tingled.
The highlights are Dead Bees on the Cake, Brilliant Trees, Japan self-titled album released on vinyl. On CD I like Manafon and Rain Tree Crow.
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I have recently discovered that I have been terribly limited by my exposure to music as well. With the single greatest influence, to me, being the radio (I was born in 1960), if I didn't hear it on the radio - I didn't hear it. And, now, many years later, I understand that for the music that I was exposed to, I was limited to it being selected and filtered by the DJ, who just may r may not have selected what I would have preferred.

So, I am going back and buying all those records (and CD's) that I have not been are to listen to or enjoy (because I was not exposed). So, are you ready? Not jazz but 2 new biggies for me that I have never heard: Allman Brothers Eat A Peach and Live at the Fillmore East. Hey, better late than never. (Last month I discovered Creedance...).
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