Vinyl Me Please Classics

Turbo said:
How many have a full set of Classics?

I had dropped out for 3 months at Carla Thomas - Alice Coltrane - Stan Getz but picked them up in the months following.
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Yeah, I have the full set. I was still on Crate subscription when it started, so I wasn't allowed to sub to Classics until they switched up subscription models. Thankfully, that's before too many people understood what it was all about, so I scored relatively cheap copies of Ollie, Shepp, and Hooker on Discogs. It took a bit more effort for the next few, that are now fairly priced on the secondary market, because VMP was lazy(?) about putting up extra stock in the store & nobody knew if there even were extra copies.
 
Turbo said:
So I just got my Art Blakey and this is the record that was inside.... WTF??? It's some sort of beat-up test record. Actually plays Abbey Road by The Beatles. 😖

Obviously, I contacted @info...

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Uh, hang on to that... That might be a test pressing of the new Abbey Road box...

QRP pressed Freedom Rider and are also doing the Single LP Abbey Road remaster.
 
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Listening to freedom rider again. This is easily my favorite classic title so far, though I’ve only been in since oriental jazz. On a soft note, I’ve listened to it on both my vinyl nirvana Thorens 160 with a dynavector 20x2L and my dual 1219 with a shure v15 Iv with a jico stylus and I continue to be amazed with how close the dual comes to the Thorens.
 
Hogues said:
Listening to freedom rider again. This is easily my favorite classic title so far, though I’ve only been in since oriental jazz. On a soft note, I’ve listened to it on both my vinyl nirvana Thorens 160 with a dynavector 20x2L and my dual 1219 with a shure v15 Iv with a jico stylus and I continue to be amazed with how close the dual comes to the Thorens.
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Love a nicely restored Dual! Seriously underrated. You can get a very nice Dual for like half what you'd pay for a Thorens and be veeeery close I'm performance. I had a 1019 for a while, I'm always on the hunt for a nice looking early idler.
 
TCell said:
1. Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Final Tour: Paris, March 21, 1960
2. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Freedom Rider
3. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda

But like others have said, lots of great Tone Poet and 80th Anniversary titles. From the Tone Poets, I'd recommend (to start):

Wayne Shorter - Etc.
Lee Morgan - Cornbread
Kenny Burrell - Introducing...
Stanley Turrentine - Hustlin'
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I'm a few days late to the list making but here are my top 3:

1 Lafayette Afro Rock Band
2 Art Blakey
3 Blossom Dearie

4 Miles/Coltrane live in Paris
 
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