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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #390 on: December 12, 2011, 07:43:15 PM »
Did a quick run trough at the Crack House today on my way to the ice rink. (Hey, it was 25% off day.  8) )

Vintage Vinyl:

Uriah Heep: The Magician's Birthday - Mercury
Renaissance: Scheherazade - Sire
The Marshall Tucker Band: Running Like the Wind - WB
Sha Na Na: The Night is Still Young - Kama Sutra
Carly Simon: Spy
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #391 on: December 14, 2011, 01:10:29 PM »
Some new vintage jazz vinyl

Dizzy Gillespie - Have Trumpet Will Excite (Verve deep groove mono pressing)
Don Elliott and Rusty Dedrick - Counterpoint for Six Valves (Riverside deep groove mono pressing)
Quincy Jones - Birth of a Band (Mercury deep groove mono pressing)
Harry "Sweets" Edison and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Jawbreakers (Riverside deep groove mono pressing)
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Sweetenings (Roulette deep groove mono pressing)
Ella Fitzgerald - Hello Love (Verve deep groove mono pressing)
Ella Fitzgerald - Whisper Not (Verve stereo pressing)
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers (Verve deep groove mono pressing)
Ella Fitzgerald - Like Someone in Love (Verve deep groove mono pressing)
Ella Fitzgerald - Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! (Verve deep groove mono pressing)
McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment (Milestone stereo 2LP pressing)
McCoy Tyner - Focal Point (Milestone stereo pressing)
Teri Thornton - Sings Somewhere in the Night (Dauntless Mono Pressing)

--Jerrome

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #392 on: December 14, 2011, 01:18:55 PM »
I have the Classic Records gold CD pressing of Ella's Clap hands album. Great music, great SQ. A nice vinyl copy has been on my search list for a while now. Some day.......  [-o<

(Hey, if I found them all right away it would take all the fun out of the hunt.)

Heading over to the Crack House right after work. I got an e-mail this morning saying that they are having a special 50% off sale today for all customers with a VIP card (pretty soon they should be upgrading mine from gold to platinum status.  :rofl: )
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #393 on: December 14, 2011, 01:39:35 PM »
I have the Classic Records gold CD pressing of Ella's Clap hands album. Great music, great SQ. A nice vinyl copy has been on my search list for a while now. Some day.......  [-o<

I also have the Classic Records 200g vinyl reissue of this one Tom.  I bought the mono deep groove pressing as part of a lot of other Ella records and the price was right.

--Jerome

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #394 on: December 14, 2011, 03:24:47 PM »
When I visited an AC member to audition the Jasmine phono pre this was one of the records he played, the 200g version. What sound! I bought a generic copy at the crackhouse in Silver Spring, but it's really too banged up to put on the good tt. Then I got it on CD.

But I can still hear the 200g version in my head  nice.

I have the Classic Records gold CD pressing of Ella's Clap hands album. Great music, great SQ. A nice vinyl copy has been on my search list for a while now. Some day.......  [-o<

I also have the Classic Records 200g vinyl reissue of this one Tom.  I bought the mono deep groove pressing as part of a lot of other Ella records and the price was right.

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #395 on: December 20, 2011, 07:25:24 PM »
Shopping in Fort Lauderdale and found these clean, 6 eye, Columbia releases;

Time Further Out - Dave Brubeck
Countdown: Time in Outer Space - Dave Brubeck
Silver Vibes With Trombones And Rhythm - Lionel Hampton

And a clean, Japanese Verve mono import;

Bud Powell '57 - Bud Powell
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #396 on: December 31, 2011, 10:56:47 PM »
I figured I'd usher out 2011 out with a bang so spent the afternoon visiting the Crack House and Infinity. Ended up with 33 LPs for $60 and change. Can't argue with that.  :D

New Vinyl:

Hank Mobley: Soul Station - Blue Note 150g Reissue

Vintage Vinyl:

Casino Royale: Original Soundtrack Recording - Colgems (HP Superdisc List)
Ben Webster and Associates: Verve
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out - Columbia Six Eye  Pressing
Phill Woods Quartet: Song for Sisyphus - Century Records Direct to Disc
Charlie Byrd/Barbey Kessel/Herb Ellis: Great Guitars at the Winery - Concord
Stan Getz & Albert Dailey: Poetry - Elektra Musician
Lou Donaldson: Color as a Way of Life - Cotillion
George Benson: Weekend in LA - Warner Bros 2 LP set
Wendy Carlos: Secrets of Synthesis -CBS
Itzhak Perlman/Andre Previn: It's a Breeze - Angel
Lena Horne/Harry Belafonte: Porgy and Bess - RCA Living Stereo
Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony, Monteux/Vienna Philharmonic - RCA Living Stereo (Shaded Dog)
Tchaikovsky: Pathetique Symphony, Reiner/Chicago Symphony Orchestra - RCA Living Stereo (Shaded Dog)
Verdi: La Taviata (Hioghlights) - - RCA Living Stereo (Shaded Dog)
Beethoven: Violin Voncerto in D, Heifetz/Munch/Boston Symphony Orch - - RCA Red Seal (Shaded Dog)
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Munch Boston Symphony Orch - RCA Living Stereo
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, Van Cliburn/Reiner/Chcago Symphony - RCA Living Stereo
Tchaikovsky Pianoi Concerto No. 1, Van Cliburn/Kondrashin - RCA Living Stereo
Fiedler and his Friends, Boston Pops - RCA Read Seal
Robert MErrill: A Tribute to His Metropolitan Opera Anniversary - RCA Red Seal
Mozart: Piano Concertos 15 & 16, Ashkenazy/Philharmonia Orchestra - London
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Solti/Chicago Symphony - London
Prokofiev: Peter & the Wolf, Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops, Carl Channing, Narrator - Caedmon
Fiddler on the Roof: Original Broadway Cast - RCA
Buzzy Linhart: Puusycats Can Go Far - ATCO
Michael McDonald: No Lookin' Back - Warner Bros
Styx: Paradise Theater - A&M
Santana;: Freedom - Columbia
Steely Dan: Greatest Hits - MCA 2 LP Set
Good Rats: From Rats to Riches - Radar Records (British Import)
Gordon Lightfoot: Salute - Warner Bros (Promo Copy)
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #397 on: January 02, 2012, 04:36:51 PM »
Today's acquisitions

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #398 on: January 07, 2012, 04:29:21 PM »
ebay - not crackhouse, it's a Sinatra kinda swinging day - a ring a ding ding!

Sellers swear these are all near mint - we shall see.

Most from the late '50s/early 60's period of his career.

FRANK SINATRA No One Cares CAPITOL U.K. Pressing
FRANK SINATRA My Way
FRANK SINATRA "moonlight sinatra" OG Reprise
FRANK SINATRA "Where Are You?"
Frank Sinatra Strangers in Night
Frank Sinatra "Nice 'N' Easy"
FRANK SINATRA  "I'VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU"
Frank Sinatra – Sinatra At The Sands
FRANK SINATRA Capitol Box Set (6LP's) 1968
FRANK SINATRA SEPTEMBER OF MY YEARS
FRANK SINATRA "A SWINGIN' AFFAIR!"
Frank Sinatra My Way
FRANK SINATRA Tell Her That You Love Her 1963 CAPITOL MONO
Frank Sinatra Swinging Session!!! Original 1961 LP Capitol

Got these two Kentons on ebay, both advertised as near mint, both crap-o-la! Pity, I really wanted A in R, the other was a 'throw-in'.

Waiting for guy to refund my money, we shall see.
  
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #399 on: January 11, 2012, 07:19:42 PM »
Stopped in at Radio-Active records in Ft. Lauderdale, found somemore 6 eye Columbias, but they were all beat.

Found a bunch of John Coltrane, some nice Impulse jackets, but again they were beat.

In the end, grabbed Weather Reports "Heavy Weather", and left.
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #400 on: January 12, 2012, 12:49:15 PM »
....found somemore 6 eye Columbias, but they were all beat.

Found a bunch of John Coltrane, some nice Impulse jackets, but again they were beat.

That hurts more than not finding anything at all.  :(
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #401 on: January 13, 2012, 08:10:47 AM »
New Vinyl

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Warner 180g pressing)
Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears
Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind
Van Morisson - Astral Weeks (Warner 180g pressing)
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (Quality Records pressing)

Vintage Vinyl

Andy Summers and Robert Fripp - Bewitched
Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold & Platinum (2LP set)
Gerry Rafferty - Can I Have My Money Back
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus

--Jerome

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #402 on: January 13, 2012, 01:51:16 PM »
New Vinyl

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Warner 180g pressing)
Question Mark & The Mysterians - 96 Tears
Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind
Van Morisson - Astral Weeks (Warner 180g pressing)
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (Quality Records pressing)

Vintage Vinyl

Andy Summers and Robert Fripp - Bewitched
Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gold & Platinum (2LP set)
Gerry Rafferty - Can I Have My Money Back
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus

--Jerome

Not your usual fodder Jerome   :thumb:

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #403 on: January 13, 2012, 02:36:30 PM »
Not your usual fodder Jerome   :thumb:

Just for that I also ordered:

She and Him - She and Him, Vol 1 (180g vinyl)
She and Him - She and Him, Vol 2 (180g vinyl)
Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

So there!  :rofl:

-Jerome

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #404 on: January 13, 2012, 03:15:04 PM »
Not your usual fodder Jerome   :thumb:

Just for that I also ordered:

She and Him - She and Him, Vol 1 (180g vinyl)
She and Him - She and Him, Vol 2 (180g vinyl)
Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

So there!  :rofl:

-Jerome

Yeah, he fixed you.  :D
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