Useful On-line Links for the jazz collector
Web Resources
- Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection and Crown Albums lists top 200 recommended jazz albums alphabetically by artist. Essential knowledge.
- Jazz Discography Project: Artist, Album and Session Index
- The Blue Note Labelography (It all started in America)
- Japanese Blue Note Discography – King and Toshiba release with dates
- Top eBay Vinyl Jazz Auctions - forthcoming (including numbers watching) and recently completed (with final price)
- Roy DuNann Interview (Thomas Conrad, The Stereophile, The Search for Roy DuNann)
Tools FOR DOWNLOADERS
- Free RAR compressed file decompression tool - YFrog, the file-sharers friend
eBay SNIPING SERVICE
- Gixen: Free reliable eBay Sniper
Essential Reading
Essential Bookshelf Reference
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Ninth Edition – The indispensible guide to everyone and everything in recorded Jazz.
- Tim Neeley Goldmine Jazz Price Guide ( just ignore the prices)
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I suspect readers here together could write our own chapter.
I’ll gladly second the tip about the book called “Vinyl Junkies”.
A must read even though it is not really about collecting jazz per se.