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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #660 on: April 11, 2015, 08:50:08 PM »
Blasphemy! !!
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #661 on: April 15, 2015, 05:08:38 PM »


I meet Tmazz at PREX before heading over to Deepak's on Sat.


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2. Lucifer's Friend ~ Banquet
3. Stack ~ Above All
4. Edwin Starr ~ War & Peace
5. The Pretty Things ~ Get The picture.......2nd album reissue
6. The Pretty Things ~ self titled......1st album reissue
7. Rory Gallagher ~ Live
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #662 on: April 28, 2015, 12:15:49 PM »
Not from the Crack House per se, But I have found this series of jazz CD sets on Amazon that happen to be very good. The sets are from a label called Real Gone Jazz and they are putting out multi CD sets of artist based collections of classic jazz albums for dirt cheap. For example I picked up this week three Ella Fizgerald sets , each 4 CD and containing either six or seven complete albums each. And none of them cost more than $8 on Amazon. The liner notes are a bit sparse, but the albums are complete and the SQ is pretty darn nice. Can't beat it for 8 bucks. And in addition to vocalists like Ella, they also have sets covering other 50s jazz artists  like Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley and many more.

Definitely work checking out.







These three sets total 12 CDs and the following complete albums:

Vol. 1
Get Happy
Ella Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
Hello Love
Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin
19 complete albums, all foLet No Man Write My Epitaph
Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

Vol. 2
Like Someone in Love
Porgy & Bess (With Louis Armstrong)
Ella Swings Lightly
Rhythm is My Business
Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
Ella Swings Gently with Nelson

Vol. 3
Lullabies of Birdland
Ella and Louis
Ella and Louis Again
At the Opera House
Ella Fitzgerald at Newport
Ella in Hollywood
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #663 on: June 07, 2015, 08:14:06 PM »
Nothing but beat up vinyl at the Crack House today, but I did do well at the CD rack:

The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
The Best of Van Morrison
The Eurythmics Greatest Hits
Various Artists: Motor City Gold
Whitney Houston: Live - Her Greatest Performances
This is Acid Jazz - Volume Two
Sammy Davis Jr.: That's All!
The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
A Classic Case _ The London Symphony Orchestra Plays the Music of Jethro Tull
Barry Manilow: Singin' With The Big Bands
Shostoakovich: Symphony No. 10 - Paavo Jarvi/Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Walt Disney World Resort: The Official Album
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #664 on: June 26, 2015, 06:35:19 AM »
PREX, not "crack house", but here's most of the haul.
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #665 on: June 26, 2015, 08:11:52 AM »
Nice Haul! I didn't know you were a jazzer Bill.

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #666 on: June 26, 2015, 02:59:25 PM »
PREX, not "crack house", but here's most of the haul.

Did you end up taking a wrong turn Bill  :rofl:

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #667 on: June 26, 2015, 06:09:51 PM »
Well...............


EVERYONE needs a copy of KoB, whether a jazz fan or not. Plus that looks like a better version, maybe 180g on silent vinyl?
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #668 on: June 27, 2015, 06:28:21 AM »
Nice Haul! I didn't know you were a jazzer Bill.

Most definitely, Rich. :)
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #669 on: June 27, 2015, 06:29:59 AM »
PREX, not "crack house", but here's most of the haul.

Did you end up taking a wrong turn Bill  :rofl:

Princeton would be one hell of a wrong turn, Deepak. :duh This was a planned trip.
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #670 on: June 28, 2015, 05:11:59 AM »






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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #671 on: June 28, 2015, 08:31:38 AM »
Well...............


EVERYONE needs a copy of KoB, whether a jazz fan or not. Plus that looks like a better version, maybe 180g on silent vinyl?

Yes, 180gram pressing.  One of the NEW albums from that days spree. (Most were used.)

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #672 on: June 29, 2015, 07:13:28 AM »
Yesterday was 1/2 off day at the real Crack House!!!   :drool

Pretty much all of the LPs were in garbage condition, but I did well in the CD section.

LP:
Oscar Peterson: Night Train

CDs:
Bela Fleck: Ten from Little Words
Mark Isham: Castalia
Arthur Prysock:Late Night Ballads and Blues
Windham Hill Various: The Romantics
Aztec Two Step: See it was like this......
The Robert Cray Band: Midnight Stroll
The Rippingtons: Sahara
Various Artists: Williams-Sonoma, The Withching Hour
Baroque at Bathtime
Fausto Papetti: i successi di Raccolta 1
Paul McCartney: Memory Almost Full
Various Artists: Get Down Tonight - Dance Party
The Sopranos - Peppers & Eggs, Music from the HBO Original Series
Mason Williams: Music 1968-1971
Rod Stewart: Still the Same.... Great Rock Classics of Our Time
Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Grant Green: Street Funk and Jazz Grooves (The Best Of Grant Green)
Grant Green: His Majesty King Funk
Donald Byrd: Up with Byrd
Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky
The Metropolitan Opera Brass: Waltzes, Songs and Festive Scenes
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: New York New York, Voices in Song
Jewel: Pieces of You

DVD:
Toy Story 3

So a grand total of 23 CDs, 1 LP & 1 DVD , bottom line price....... $17.00.  :shock:
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #673 on: June 29, 2015, 07:24:39 AM »
Was that the Westbury or Levittown crack house? I stopped at the LCH on Saturday
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #674 on: June 29, 2015, 11:27:26 AM »
Was that the Westbury or Levittown crack house? I stopped at the LCH on Saturday

Levittown
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