Jazz Vinyl Shopping Trip - Atlanta GA / Rochester NY

[@mad4vinyl802]

It was great meeting you. I'm happy you liked the store. You have a VIP pass to the basement if you're ever in town again. I hope you enjoy the records.

[@jazzvinylcollector]

@@mad4vinyl802 thanks so much! It’s a really great shop you have there!

[@jansiwek7631]

I'm from Poland. These two LPs from Polish Jazz series are both among few most desired and rarest LPs from the series. Great find!

[@jazzvinylcollector]

@@jansiwek7631 thank you! I was very excited to see them. Both are great but the quartet session is especially fantastic

[@jakubgerono1938]

@@jansiwek7631 It looks it's easier to find it in Atlanta than in Katowice when I live 🙂 RIP - Jan "Ptaszyn" Wróblewski

[@greencraig8570]

Those promos often sound the best for some reason.

[@robertguyer6503]

The Bop Shop was my favorite record store when I lived in Rochester. Nothing even close to it here in Sacramento.

[@jonbmet]

I've scored some choice Jazz albums itp in the Southwest part of the city. College Park, East Point, West End, Greenbriar, Langford Pkwy, etc. If you don't already I highly suggest checking out some estate sales and yard sales around there. It is a honey hole. Most flippers don't mess with that area and conveniently that's where the best music was historically enjoyed! And because of the real estate market there are a lot of multi-generational properties being sold off right now. Lots of basements being cleaned out.

[@RichardCramer-jx6ws]

Always enjoy your jazz program. Your right. Very hard to find original good jazz vinyl. I love Impulse pressings. Have many. Beautiful gatefold covers and vinyl. Sadly far and few finds anymore.

[@DougDorsey-r4t]

It was good seeing you on Jazz bums. I’m 66 just starting collecting I have about 200 jazz and the rest 80’s rock. Can you recommend a book on how to start collecting? Thank you Doug

[@jimtremblay5539]

Hey I was visiting a friend a few years back who lives in Alpharetta. There was a pretty good record store there called Comeback Vinyl. Pretty good jazz selection. Not sure if you’ve been there.

[@realleescoggins]

That’s my neighborhood store. Loads of jazz, especially audiophile jazz. They no longer carry used records. Great people and the most luxurious store in the city.

[@celtic-audiophile]

Sounds like heaven, let’s hear about your other buys

[@jimmccloskey4254]

Wuxtry Decatur GA - found this gem.

[@jeffreysobczynski7113]

Nice pick ups in Rochester. Wow!

[@serenity665]

Very nice collection 👌

[@lamarw9901]

I know of the Book Nook Marietta location but have never stopped in. Passed it a thousand times. Now I have to have to. I stopped in Sweet Melissa records on the Marietta Square killing some time and picked up a Dire Straits record and some other vinyl. I'm more rock/pop, getting into Jazz. Agreed with Atlanta Vinyl and really HiFi, for the size of the city, I'd expect more shops and variety. Looking at used Hifi equipment, I find more interesting stuff in the Carolinas or Florida.

[@jazzvinylcollector]

Sweet Melissa is great, I’ve found some excellent stuff there over the years. That Marietta location has much more vinyl than the Toco Hills area place and it’s also worthwhile

[@AeroModule]

Re: the Nova Scotia guy -- out of context, but I guess that folks who like good music/records also like good beer! 🍺

[@jazzvinylcollector]

Oh for sure, we tend to be like minded in multiple ways beyond just records

[@jeffreysobczynski7113]

🍻🎷

[@MrEnis-rn3yi]

Glad you liked the Bop Shop...a few other great stores in Rochester, a very Record-Centric town!

[@Joplin1916]

I saw what was maybe Red Mitchell's last concert, which was a free concert with Jessica Williams and Dick Berk at Portland, Oregon Pioneer Courthouse Square, a couple of months before Mitchell passed away. It was a pretty hot day and Mitchell was wearing a turtleneck and sport coat, which I thought was unusual in that weather.

[@Mr.BigSquid]

I think it’s harder in the south to find these records, East/West coast big cities have a lot and Midwest too. St. Louis has a ton of jazz! Lot of prices dropping though, the fad is definitely dying. I’m very surprised you’re still seeing things are expensive and hard to find.

[@paulwaters753]

nice greatfinds 🙂

[@csrulz16]

I was wondering why your mal4 was listed lol

[@Stuntman_nh]

Bop Shop is amazing. I went there yesterday.

[@thomosburn8740]

Your thumb is on the scale here LOL, 'A Book Nook' on Clairmont has a terrible vinyl selection these days