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agutierrezb said:
The agutierrezb 2019 record collection challenge

So I've decided to embark on my own personal challenge, which consists of listening every record in my collection before the end of the year. My record collection is not that big -only ~250-, but I still feel like there are a bunch of records I don't give enough attention to, while still adding more titles to my shelves.

For this reason I've set a couple of rules in order to play every record at least once before December 31st: I'll play at least one record a day, going from front to back in the way I have them sorted in my shelf. I can play a different record (i.e. Not the next one in alphabetical order) if I feel like listening to something else in any given moment, but at least one of the records I spin in the day has to be the LP in turn.

I didn't take pictures for the first two days, but I'll try to document the process from here on, so I'll be posting daily on this thread. Wish me luck!
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agutierrezb said:
#189: Nas - Illmatic
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#190: Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth

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This record is something else. Not only does it feature an all-star lineup (Bill Evans and Eric Dolphy on the same session?!), but it is also filled with brilliant compositions and arrangements all based on the blues.
 
The Dave Brubeck Quartet ‎– Jazz At Oberlin (Vogue/Fantasy, 1957 First UK Mono LP Pressing)

A fantastic set which was recorded live at the Finney Chapel at Oberlin College on the 3rd March 1953. The performance was one of the first times a jazz concert had been put on at a College and the real stand-out performer was Paul Desmond on sax, with the students cheering loudly at the end of each of his solos. Wendell Logan (chair of the college's Jazz Studies) described it as "the watershed event that signalled the change of performance space for jazz from the nightclub to the concert hall".

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