"Mrs. Reviews" 🤣 ... Congratulations on your 3-year milestone, Allan. Thanks for all you put into your videos and share with us. Your May break will be an opportunity to delve into your back catalogue to revisit some of the videos and featured recordings therein.
Your story about that grumpy record store owner reminds me of an Antique Store I regularly go to, whose owner was exactly the same when I first went to his place. 10 years on and he’s become somewhat of a mentor, and some of my most prized records I bought at his place. It’s been my experience that when record store owners are like that, it’s the customers’ fault, not the owner’s fault. They probably had so many bad experiences over the years that they’ve become wary of people. But it’s important to remind yourself that someone who has a record store full of vintage records will almost invariably be passionate about music.
Certainly the case I’m sure. What I would observe about Sandy’s place is that his downfall is idiosyncratic organizational skills. There are a ton of great records in that store, but only he knows how to find them. No dividers, no sections, and some perilous ascents. It’s like something out of Diagon Alley! Which keeps the grubby fingered plebs from rifling through a lot of classic LPs, sure. But this is a choice, to obviously and intentionally position himself as the sole gatekeeper in one’s quest. (“Answer me these riddles three!”) So I have to conclude he relishes the confrontation. But it melts away if you have some idea what you’re looking for.
So glad you got to visit The Lighthouse during your trip to L.A. Such a cool spot in beautiful Hermosa Beach. Hope you got to cruise down Central Avenue to see The Dunbar Hotel where so many Jazz greats stayed and played. Nivessa and Angel City sound like great places to go picking during my next trip to L.A., but I don’t have the patience of Job to deal with The Record Collector’s business acumen despite having a nice assortment of clean, vintage Jazz titles. Congrats for surviving Sandy’s “Three Billy Goats Gruff” journey in order to score some fine records while you were there. Great video, happy you and Mrs. Review enjoyed the West Coast trip.
Allan, love your intelligent thoughtful take on jazz and collecting jazz. Great pickup with the Elmo Hope LP! One suggestion might be to look at a less-talked-about artists, e.g. Lee Konitz, Charlie Mariano, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, Jimmy Forest…. the list goes on. With that said your ten minute record reviews are great. I like the background/history element to them. Thanks for all you work and content!
As others have stated the history is what draws me to your channel, very well done. Congrats on three years! I love Jazz and in no way mean this as disrespectful to your channel. The Jazz record thing is starting to feel a little over done on YT. That being said I will continue to watch yours. I loved the Reggae buyer’s guide you did and would love to see more Reggae features and some Soul. Maybe mix it up a little. See you on your return.
Something to consider is to come hang out on our Friday live stream! We would love to have you. That said, it's worth thinking about how you can use streaming, the key benefit is the immediate interactions with the viewers through the chat. It is really rewarding, highly recommend, and if you have any questions about how we do it, just let me know. And to your point about views -- I agree, you got to do what moves you. For example, I just did a stream about a Sinatra bootleg record that I love and views were about a quarter of what our other videos do, but I loved doing it and, for the people that did watch, their engagement was higher than usual and positive. Thanks for all you do. -- Mike
Congrats on three years! Having watched most of your videos, I don't know if there's anything I'd really change. They are informative and have helped put me on to some great music quicker than if I had just stumbled around the massive discography of jazz alone. One thing I wish there was a bit more of is jazz or jazz-fusion from Japan, as that was my personal gateway into American jazz, but if that isn't really your thing then obviously no pressure
Another record store that is fantastic you should visit next time you’re in the Los Angeles area is the Grand Emporium in San Pedro. You can spend all day there hunting for records, and the owner is very nice and helpful.
You know why I subscribed to your channel? Because you're not a jazz knit...and there are quite a few elitists out there. Moreover, I'm augmenting my collection with many of your recommendations that come at fantastic prices. Case in point...that Dave 'Fathead' Newman 'Straight Ahead'...I listened to it on my stereo system via Spotify...liked it...went to Discogs and bought a 1961 Mono copy in VG+/VG+ copy for $30. Most of your recommendations are VERY budget friendly, and that's what I appreciate about your channel. Keep up the good work!.
Thanks very much! There are some great Atlantic releases from that era which outside of Coltrane don't get much attention. If you like that one I'd also recommend The Genius After Hours, an all-instrumental small-group record led by Ray Charles (with Fathead of course).
That was great Alan. Nice hearing the channel’s background story. I’ll look forward to the label history…..Riverside and Prestige in particular…I don’t know enough. Cheers.
I’m thinking of a top ten list, such as “Top 10 things to look for whilst crate digging for good jazz” That is what I need in my life as a sophomore jazz listener Clues like labels to look out for, what decades are the best, what decade lines up with which genre of jazz, and as a devotee to funk music, I also need help! So a top ten jazz funk albums of the 1970’s would be very much appreciated Cheers 🍻 from Peterborough ON
I think your format is outstanding. Even though modern jazz is not my favorite genre I pretty much watch all of your videos. I've noticed new youtubers do way too many videos at the beginning and after a year or two they are gone. Do not change a thing. There are only a few channels where I watch every video and yours is one.
Love the channel - please keep up the individual record reviews (both jazz and rock please - your mix matches pretty close to my own) - I also enjoy the collaborations with Jonas (more please). Lastly the label reviews are great as well - as are the store visits. I am totally going to the Record Collector next time I am in LA.
Congratulations on 3 years. Your videos are so informative and interesting,so much information, history and context neatly put together in 10 minutes. I learn something every time and it adds to my enjoyment of my own records as I feel I know more about the artists that you've covered than I did before.Keep up the good work.
Man, I wish I'd known about your channel during the pandemic. I basically unplugged from the online world (thank goodness for physical media), largely for some of the reasons you describe. There were too many people who seem to enjoy having opinions but without the knowledge or experience to give those opinions any weight, and I didn't need the aggravation. I was a movie critic most of my professional life, and those list articles you describe are formula pieces most newspaper/magazine arts critics refer to dismissively as "listicles." They can be fun, but they don't necessarily increase anyone's knowledge or appreciation of the form -- or even the items on the list. I don't remember which video of yours first caught my eye (just in the last week or so) -- maybe it was the Blue Note history -- but I wasn't looking for "reviews" so much as information, background, history. And that's what you do! Thank you and please keep it up. P.S. I keep looking out your window, trying to figure out what part of the country you live in. Where are you?
Thanks. Well, the channel began as a pandemic project, and the early quality is decidedly hit and miss, so you weren’t missing much. I live out on the west coast.
Always enjoy your thoughtful content. For future subjects, and given your appreciation of West Coast jazz, it would be great to hear your thoughts on Marty Paich. His "bigger band" recordings are terrific, including "The Broadway Bit," "I Get a Boot Out of You," and "Picasso of Big-Band Jazz." Similar to Gerry Mulligan's Concert Band, Paich endeavored to make his large ensembles have the feeling of a small group.
Funny you should say - I picked up his quartet record with Art Pepper the other day which is excellent. Thanks for the suggestion and I’ll do some exploring.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews Yes, that quartet date is cool, as well as Paich’s collaboration on “Art Pepper +11.” Truth be told, all of my Marty Paich is on CD, but while vinyl copies may be hard to find, his music is worth exploring.
@@louisswaim7024 Something to be said for CD, at least for some of his records released on minor LA labels in the '50s which had the unfortunate tendency to use recycled vinyl (significant surface noise even on a mint record).
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews if you've never taken the time, this blog and documentary on Crown Records is revealing of shoddy practices among small label ecosystem on the West Coast, and Crown in particular: crownrecordsstory.wordpress.com/
Have a nice month "off". I'm looking forward to when you are back i June. Your videos are great sources for discovering (for me) new/unknown records and artists (you bear a large part of the responsibility for my ever-growing record collection 😉) . A suggestion for future development could be to focus on one artist in (some of) your videos. I think you have done this to some degree already (the Hysear Don Walker video) - very interesting. Felipe (one of The Jazz Bums) did 3 videos about Lee Morgan, which I enjoyed. Sincerely, Claus.
Thanks Claus. Yes, I think there is room for a slightly longer for a video which looks at a more obscure artist. I could’ve done this with the Curtis Counce group, for instance. I appreciate the suggestion.
I was thinking about your trepidation with respect to the Blue Note catalog. Since most of us watching your channel do not readily have access to the best Blue Note OG releases, do reviews of the best that are in the affordable category. That kind of info is helpful for those of us who want them but aren't sure what is good or not. Just a thought! I really enjoy your channel and agree with your focus overall. Great stuff.
Thanks. I have in recent months actually been acquiring a few Blue Note early pressings with RVG metalwork. So by the time I do this I should be fairly conversant with the question of sound quality at least through a few examples. But yes, there are lots of other options and in particular the recent 80th anniversary and classic series are meeting with a lot of approval - unless you get a bum copy! Anyway, having said that I will continue to resist the urge to make this all about holy grails and pressings and technology, because it’s gotta be about the music, and that of course is what made Blue Note famous in the first place.
IMHO, you picked up the best Mastersounds record. The tribute to Horace beats their tribute to Bags decidedly. I wonder if The Record Collector had any Curtis Counce or Carl Perkins. Those would be huge finds for me. Nice snag on the Hope OG, but there's nothing shameful about the reissues on Contemporary.
No indeed. Re the Record Collector, yeah, I think there’s no harm in reaching out with an email. They have a lot of stuff, no two ways about it. Would not be surprised at all, if he had some of the Counce records. Definitely a lot of original releases, and I saw about 20 or 30 original Shelly Manne LPs. Most of which I had unfortunately.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews that's what I realized after I commented: who knows, maybe it wouldn't have occurred to ask if you owned them already. Also, you're right about Frank Butler being great on those albums - ditto with Harold Land.
@@davidmathias6879 have been gathering the Counce group’s LPs of late. Have 1PS of three of the four on Contemporary and an OJC of You Get More Bounce which is in general hard to find - perhaps because of the cover it is more collectible.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews yes I have the OJC (2014), which may be digital. 70's Contemporary for "Landslide". I have the Doo Tone leftovers disc on Bel Canto. The rest will require patience. And, yes, the cheesecake covers drive collectors. Russ Freeman and the Paitch mentioned in comments here are other notable examples.
With respect to suggestions for future features, whether you change the name of the channel or not, please continue to skew heavily to music history, artist biographies and real reviews as you have done so well over the course of the last three years. Personally I find the predominance of channels featuring TH-camrs simply holding up records they "recently picked up" and channels dedicated to new re-issue announcements (and whether the card stock used is to their liking) vacuous and tiresome. Keep on your trajectory, and again, thanks, Allan.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews if you use the Archive link you can start from January 1959. This is going to suck me in because it's been a few years since I read it. January 1 - Mingus with John Handy - and it's Handy's first three records on Roulette that I really think are underrated. A couple of years ago, I probably hadn't heard even one of them....
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Thanks for the reviews. A review of your favorite music related books would be interesting.
Noted! In the meantime you should check out @sublimmedia who has many reviews of jazz books.
Thanks for everything, I enjoy the music history format.
Thanks Tim, glad you like it.
been watching since the start Alan. Really appreciate the detail you fit into each review, always learn something new
Thanks very much Mike; yes you’ve been here since the early days!
"Mrs. Reviews" 🤣 ... Congratulations on your 3-year milestone, Allan. Thanks for all you put into your videos and share with us. Your May break will be an opportunity to delve into your back catalogue to revisit some of the videos and featured recordings therein.
Thanks Maurizio, and for your help in the last year. Much appreciated.
Your story about that grumpy record store owner reminds me of an Antique Store I regularly go to, whose owner was exactly the same when I first went to his place. 10 years on and he’s become somewhat of a mentor, and some of my most prized records I bought at his place.
It’s been my experience that when record store owners are like that, it’s the customers’ fault, not the owner’s fault. They probably had so many bad experiences over the years that they’ve become wary of people. But it’s important to remind yourself that someone who has a record store full of vintage records will almost invariably be passionate about music.
Certainly the case I’m sure. What I would observe about Sandy’s place is that his downfall is idiosyncratic organizational skills. There are a ton of great records in that store, but only he knows how to find them. No dividers, no sections, and some perilous ascents. It’s like something out of Diagon Alley! Which keeps the grubby fingered plebs from rifling through a lot of classic LPs, sure. But this is a choice, to obviously and intentionally position himself as the sole gatekeeper in one’s quest. (“Answer me these riddles three!”) So I have to conclude he relishes the confrontation. But it melts away if you have some idea what you’re looking for.
So glad you got to visit The Lighthouse during your trip to L.A. Such a cool spot in beautiful Hermosa Beach. Hope you got to cruise down Central Avenue to see The Dunbar Hotel where so many Jazz greats stayed and played.
Nivessa and Angel City sound like great places to go picking during my next trip to L.A., but I don’t have the patience of Job to deal with The Record Collector’s business acumen despite having a nice assortment of clean, vintage Jazz titles. Congrats for surviving Sandy’s “Three Billy Goats Gruff” journey in order to score some fine records while you were there. Great video, happy you and Mrs. Review enjoyed the West Coast trip.
Thanks Edward!
Allan, love your intelligent thoughtful take on jazz and collecting jazz. Great pickup with the Elmo Hope LP! One suggestion might be to look at a less-talked-about artists, e.g. Lee Konitz, Charlie Mariano, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, Jimmy Forest…. the list goes on. With that said your ten minute record reviews are great. I like the background/history element to them. Thanks for all you work and content!
Great suggestions, thank you!
As others have stated the history is what draws me to your channel, very well done. Congrats on three years! I love Jazz and in no way mean this as disrespectful to your channel. The Jazz record thing is starting to feel a little over done on YT. That being said I will continue to watch yours. I loved the Reggae buyer’s guide you did and would love to see more Reggae features and some Soul. Maybe mix it up a little. See you on your return.
Thanks Todd, I appreciate the feedback.
Something to consider is to come hang out on our Friday live stream! We would love to have you. That said, it's worth thinking about how you can use streaming, the key benefit is the immediate interactions with the viewers through the chat. It is really rewarding, highly recommend, and if you have any questions about how we do it, just let me know. And to your point about views -- I agree, you got to do what moves you. For example, I just did a stream about a Sinatra bootleg record that I love and views were about a quarter of what our other videos do, but I loved doing it and, for the people that did watch, their engagement was higher than usual and positive. Thanks for all you do. -- Mike
That sounds like fun. I’ll PM you.
Congrats on three years! Having watched most of your videos, I don't know if there's anything I'd really change. They are informative and have helped put me on to some great music quicker than if I had just stumbled around the massive discography of jazz alone. One thing I wish there was a bit more of is jazz or jazz-fusion from Japan, as that was my personal gateway into American jazz, but if that isn't really your thing then obviously no pressure
Thanks Doc. I do have a few Japanese bits 'n' bobs, including some Sadao Watanabe who is an interesting character. Let me ponder!
Another record store that is fantastic you should visit next time you’re in the Los Angeles area is the Grand Emporium in San Pedro. You can spend all day there hunting for records, and the owner is very nice and helpful.
Darn! Could’ve gone there when we were down in Hermosa Beach. Thanks for the tip, filed away.
You know why I subscribed to your channel? Because you're not a jazz knit...and there are quite a few elitists out there. Moreover, I'm augmenting my collection with many of your recommendations that come at fantastic prices. Case in point...that Dave 'Fathead' Newman 'Straight Ahead'...I listened to it on my stereo system via Spotify...liked it...went to Discogs and bought a 1961 Mono copy in VG+/VG+ copy for $30. Most of your recommendations are VERY budget friendly, and that's what I appreciate about your channel. Keep up the good work!.
Thanks very much!
There are some great Atlantic releases from that era which outside of Coltrane don't get much attention. If you like that one I'd also recommend The Genius After Hours, an all-instrumental small-group record led by Ray Charles (with Fathead of course).
That was great Alan. Nice hearing the channel’s background story. I’ll look forward to the label history…..Riverside and Prestige in particular…I don’t know enough. Cheers.
Thanks Mark. Yes I’m looking forward to doing those too as I don’t know as much as I’d like.
I’m thinking of a top ten list, such as “Top 10 things to look for whilst crate digging for good jazz” That is what I need in my life as a sophomore jazz listener
Clues like labels to look out for, what decades are the best, what decade lines up with which genre of jazz, and as a devotee to funk music, I also need help! So a top ten jazz funk albums of the 1970’s would be very much appreciated
Cheers 🍻 from Peterborough ON
Thanks. Not sure if you’ve seen my 12 lessons re collecting vintage jazz video, but it’s kind of along those lines.
And the jazz funk? Good idea.
I think your format is outstanding. Even though modern jazz is not my favorite genre I pretty much watch all of your videos. I've noticed new youtubers do way too many videos at the beginning and after a year or two they are gone. Do not change a thing. There are only a few channels where I watch every video and yours is one.
Thanks Richard, that’s very kind of you to say.
Love the channel - please keep up the individual record reviews (both jazz and rock please - your mix matches pretty close to my own) - I also enjoy the collaborations with Jonas (more please). Lastly the label reviews are great as well - as are the store visits. I am totally going to the Record Collector next time I am in LA.
Buckle up! :-)
Congratulations on 3 years.
Your videos are so informative and interesting,so much information, history and context neatly put together in 10 minutes. I learn something every time and it adds to my enjoyment of my own records as I feel I know more about the artists that you've covered than I did before.Keep up the good work.
Thanks Norrie, I appreciate the support.
Man, I wish I'd known about your channel during the pandemic. I basically unplugged from the online world (thank goodness for physical media), largely for some of the reasons you describe. There were too many people who seem to enjoy having opinions but without the knowledge or experience to give those opinions any weight, and I didn't need the aggravation. I was a movie critic most of my professional life, and those list articles you describe are formula pieces most newspaper/magazine arts critics refer to dismissively as "listicles." They can be fun, but they don't necessarily increase anyone's knowledge or appreciation of the form -- or even the items on the list. I don't remember which video of yours first caught my eye (just in the last week or so) -- maybe it was the Blue Note history -- but I wasn't looking for "reviews" so much as information, background, history. And that's what you do! Thank you and please keep it up.
P.S. I keep looking out your window, trying to figure out what part of the country you live in. Where are you?
Thanks. Well, the channel began as a pandemic project, and the early quality is decidedly hit and miss, so you weren’t missing much.
I live out on the west coast.
Always enjoy your thoughtful content. For future subjects, and given your appreciation of West Coast jazz, it would be great to hear your thoughts on Marty Paich. His "bigger band" recordings are terrific, including "The Broadway Bit," "I Get a Boot Out of You," and "Picasso of Big-Band Jazz." Similar to Gerry Mulligan's Concert Band, Paich endeavored to make his large ensembles have the feeling of a small group.
Funny you should say - I picked up his quartet record with Art Pepper the other day which is excellent. Thanks for the suggestion and I’ll do some exploring.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews Yes, that quartet date is cool, as well as Paich’s collaboration on “Art Pepper +11.” Truth be told, all of my Marty Paich is on CD, but while vinyl copies may be hard to find, his music is worth exploring.
@@louisswaim7024 Something to be said for CD, at least for some of his records released on minor LA labels in the '50s which had the unfortunate tendency to use recycled vinyl (significant surface noise even on a mint record).
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews if you've never taken the time, this blog and documentary on Crown Records is revealing of shoddy practices among small label ecosystem on the West Coast, and Crown in particular: crownrecordsstory.wordpress.com/
Have a nice month "off". I'm looking forward to when you are back i June.
Your videos are great sources for discovering (for me) new/unknown records and artists (you bear a large part of the responsibility for my ever-growing record collection 😉) .
A suggestion for future development could be to focus on one artist in (some of) your videos. I think you have done this to some degree already (the Hysear Don Walker video) - very interesting. Felipe (one of The Jazz Bums) did 3 videos about Lee Morgan, which I enjoyed.
Sincerely, Claus.
Thanks Claus. Yes, I think there is room for a slightly longer for a video which looks at a more obscure artist. I could’ve done this with the Curtis Counce group, for instance. I appreciate the suggestion.
I was thinking about your trepidation with respect to the Blue Note catalog. Since most of us watching your channel do not readily have access to the best Blue Note OG releases, do reviews of the best that are in the affordable category. That kind of info is helpful for those of us who want them but aren't sure what is good or not. Just a thought! I really enjoy your channel and agree with your focus overall. Great stuff.
Thanks. I have in recent months actually been acquiring a few Blue Note early pressings with RVG metalwork. So by the time I do this I should be fairly conversant with the question of sound quality at least through a few examples. But yes, there are lots of other options and in particular the recent 80th anniversary and classic series are meeting with a lot of approval - unless you get a bum copy!
Anyway, having said that I will continue to resist the urge to make this all about holy grails and pressings and technology, because it’s gotta be about the music, and that of course is what made Blue Note famous in the first place.
Or a piano deep dive i.e. instrument based would be interesting
IMHO, you picked up the best Mastersounds record. The tribute to Horace beats their tribute to Bags decidedly. I wonder if The Record Collector had any Curtis Counce or Carl Perkins. Those would be huge finds for me. Nice snag on the Hope OG, but there's nothing shameful about the reissues on Contemporary.
No indeed.
Re the Record Collector, yeah, I think there’s no harm in reaching out with an email. They have a lot of stuff, no two ways about it. Would not be surprised at all, if he had some of the Counce records. Definitely a lot of original releases, and I saw about 20 or 30 original Shelly Manne LPs. Most of which I had unfortunately.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews that's what I realized after I commented: who knows, maybe it wouldn't have occurred to ask if you owned them already.
Also, you're right about Frank Butler being great on those albums - ditto with Harold Land.
@@davidmathias6879 have been gathering the Counce group’s LPs of late. Have 1PS of three of the four on Contemporary and an OJC of You Get More Bounce which is in general hard to find - perhaps because of the cover it is more collectible.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews yes I have the OJC (2014), which may be digital. 70's Contemporary for "Landslide". I have the Doo Tone leftovers disc on Bel Canto. The rest will require patience.
And, yes, the cheesecake covers drive collectors. Russ Freeman and the Paitch mentioned in comments here are other notable examples.
With respect to suggestions for future features, whether you change the name of the channel or not, please continue to skew heavily to music history, artist biographies and real reviews as you have done so well over the course of the last three years. Personally I find the predominance of channels featuring TH-camrs simply holding up records they "recently picked up" and channels dedicated to new re-issue announcements (and whether the card stock used is to their liking) vacuous and tiresome. Keep on your trajectory, and again, thanks, Allan.
Thanks Maurizio. Fear not: those paths are well-trodden and no need for me to join in.
Hate lists, they end up being boring and samey. A particular year say for example 1958 in jazz would be interesting especially across labels
That’s not the first time that’s been suggested and I think it’s a great idea. Watch this space.
@@davidmathias6879 Wow, that is an incredible thing. Thank you for pointing me that way.
@@TenMinuteRecordReviews if you use the Archive link you can start from January 1959. This is going to suck me in because it's been a few years since I read it. January 1 - Mingus with John Handy - and it's Handy's first three records on Roulette that I really think are underrated. A couple of years ago, I probably hadn't heard even one of them....