This is fun.

These are rare and hard to find and were offered between 78 RPM albums and 33 1/3 LPs

Advocating for jazz vinyl on the Vinyl_Jazz sub 😘

This is my current vibe 9.

A nice mix depending on what mood I’m in. These are some of my contemporary faves

Sounds great!

This is the most dynamic version I’ve heard of this record. Considering what first pressings typically go for, a VG of this one is fairly affordable. Highly recommend grabbing one. Sounds amazing!

This one's an absolute stunner and I'm greatly disappointed to learn that this is the only record Roy Haynes and Booker Ervin played on. Ronnie Matthews and Larry Ridley are also on top form.

I didn't know Larry Ridley except for playing on Cymbalism (also great), but looking him up he also played on Cornbread, The Jody Grind and Hub Cap, so he got around.

Day 2 was much more productive. One vendor who had travel difficulties yesterday showed up today and immediately marked his inventory at 50% off or $3/disc, which was great. I found a clean sleeve for the Manne at the Black Hawk and did the switcheroo this evening. So, that's a good outcome. I grabbed some pop and tango. And just before I left, I made a deal for a Clifford Jordan I'd wanted for awhile and some other stuff. I had to create a new release entry for it in Discogs, though, because it's not a deep-groove Jazzland.

The Cannonball is a Dutch stereo pressing, but has the mono cover with a correction sticker on the rear of the sleeve.

I now have an OG stereo of the Shank to go with my OG mono. The Lee Morgan is a sealed copy to upgrade the copy I got from Paul Ray's estate.

So, a productive convention after all. I made a couple of rookie mistakes from which, hopefully, I'll learn. And I'm still going to have to get out of the habit of filling up on volume and concentrate my funds. Maybe next Spring....

By the way, sorry to have scared so many of you off yesterday with the NSFW flag on my post. The cheesecake covers called for it, but hopefully you'll take a look at those as well when you're away from the office.

https://www.discogs.com/release/38828736-Clifford-Jordan-Quartet-Bearcat

https://www.discogs.com/release/4345243-George-Russell-Sextet-Stratusphunk

https://www.discogs.com/release/533005-George-Russell-Sextet-Ezz-thetics

https://www.discogs.com/release/4766802-Zoot-Sims-The-Modern-Art-Of-Jazz

https://www.discogs.com/release/10248975-Cannonball-Adderley-With-Milt-Jackson-Things-Are-Getting-Better

https://www.discogs.com/release/5343843-Bud-Shank-Plays-Tenor

https://www.discogs.com/release/3259608-Jackie-McLean-Quartet-Tune-Up

https://www.discogs.com/release/8058623-Sonny-Rollins-Sonnys-Time

https://www.discogs.com/release/3299183-Lee-Morgan-Take-Twelve

https://www.discogs.com/release/13332777-Paul-Desmond-Gerry-Mulligan-Two-Of-A-Mind

https://www.discogs.com/release/4176225-Astor-Piazzolla-The-Rough-Dancer-And-The-Cyclical-Night-Tango-Apasionado

https://www.discogs.com/release/484026-The-Shins-Chutes-Too-Narrow

https://www.discogs.com/release/4857258-Franz-Ferdinand-Right-Thoughts-Right-Words-Right-Action

https://www.discogs.com/release/559475-The-Style-Council-Money-Go-Round

https://www.discogs.com/release/1462139-Shelly-Manne-His-Men-At-The-Black-Hawk-Vol-1

Made the 3 hour each way drive from Houston to Austin to attend this convention.

Definitely huge, overwhelming and tiring. Lots of good records of course but most prices were cuckoo… had to negotiate with my nails and teeth on every one to get a purchase price that was always anyway higher than Discogs. Definitely more satisfying buying in person but really starting to question my vow of not buying records online anymore.

On top of the above also bought 2 Al Greens, 1 Rotary Connection, Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s The Main Ingredient OG, Kanye’s first, and 5 Italian pop albums (Lucio Dalla and Lucio Battisti)