WHY DO WE COLLECT COLTRANE MILES SONNY JACKIE JJ ETC?

only you can answer that question for yourself but as for me...well...watch1
I played jazz drums professionally for 15 years. I wrote about jazz for DownBeat, Jazziz, JazzTimes, and currently, Stereophile. I take a musician's, journalist's, and documentarian’s approach to collecting jazz vinyl.
I tend to prefer OG or early pressings to new reissues, as they have more life force, greater naturalness, and drive. Though admittedly, new reissues have fuller bass, and smoother overall texture, which mates well with today's hi-fi equipment. Thanks for watching!
IG: @micallefjazzwax
FB: JazzVinylLovers
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My reference hi-fi on which I play and evaluate recordings:
VPI Avenger Direct Turntable/VPI Fatboy tonearm/Hana Umami Blue MC cart
Thorens TD 124 table/Jelco 350 tonearm/Luxman LMC 5 MC cart
Manley Chinook/Tavish Audio Design Adagio phono stages
Shindo Allegro Preamp
Riviera Labs Levante Integrated amp
PrimaLuna EVO 300 Hybrid Integrated amp
Rogue Audio Power amp
Volti Audio Razz/Golden Ear BRX/Spendor BC1 loudspeakers
AudioQuest, Triode Wire Labs, Auditorium 23 cables

[@derosa1989]

The motivations for, and different types of collecting is a very interesting topic. You highlighted some of the frameworks for viewing the collecting behaviour. Ironically it's not often directly discussed by collectors themselves in places like online forums filled with people engaged in "collecting". I'm not sure some participants examine the reasons they collect, they mostly buy to consume. I've done some reading about the theories and psychology of collecting , and as a hobby it has a lot of dimensions; Some social and some personal. Self expression is a big part of it for many people.

[@mikebeleski5595]

Thanks Ken. What a great topic to discuss and to give us pause to think. Loved it. Keep up the great work.

[@johndoyle7644]

Great interesting topic, and as always ken ,your the real deal .

[@simonvaughan7325]

Looks like Gilles Peterson (famous UK DJ) in Billy's Record Salon

[@67Pepper]

I'm selling off some of my "collection" since I'm getting older. I have multiple pressings of the same title and they are the first to go. I can't justify keeping 10 versions of "Who's Next" for example. I still buy more than I sell, oh well.

[@Roudaki677]

It was the summer of 1976 and my older brother was going to pick up a new record, Chicago X, from his favorite record store across the street from the Symphony hall, in Tehran (when it was free place). We walked in and the song playing was “car wash”, the store, the floor to ceiling speakers and the disco grabbed me at that second. My collection started taking shape the following week, I ended up buying many records from there and working there as a teenager. A couple of years later I moved to Paris, and continued to build my collection, I live in Dallas these days. I surpassed 10,000 vinyl many years ago and stopped counting but my collection started so innocently on that summer afternoon in a world that sadly does not exist anymore.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Sharing that fantastic story. You should start your own KZbin channel to talk about your collecting.

[@Roudaki677]

Love your 5x5 sessions Ken. I may not be as mentally quick as I used to be once as I near 60, being able to pull out random records and discuss details only comes from collecting and absorbing liner notes from an early age like those of us that have the disease.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

@@Roudaki677 the disease! Jazz and jazz records have been invested my brain matter for a long time. As it has yours! Thanks for a reminder regarding 5×5.

[@jonathanscull7712]

Nice, it was like visiting you, in fact I felt like making a conversation of it. I used to carry Handi-Wipes in case I found worthwhile street vinyl, flipping through the LPs hoping for a hidden gem. Found a bunch of 6-eyes that way. And Pablos, I want Pablos, lots of bang for the buck as they say. Ellington? Almost anything, Ray Brown, Miles, etc. Kathleen was very tolerant while I dug through the merch.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

J 10!

[@danmartinez5502]

Collecting for 5 decades. My vinyl library functions as a time machine.

[@michaelmuncy3593]

Continuously buying records is cheaper than continuous visits to a head-shrink and a heck of a lot more fun and effective.

[@agalleyne]

Great editing, Ken! I bought my first 7" in 1978 (Wings, Mull of Kintyre), been hooked ever since. Really love collecting again now, but the prices for re-releases, whilst more affordable than many OG copies of jazz classics, is getting silly. Record Store Day was/is a great idea but the sheer amount of product they put out is wallet-busting... Thanks for all the great content!!

[@davecharvella4854]

Sitting here multitasking, well sort of ... got the Yankee game on the tube and Ken on KZbin. Doesn't get any better than that!

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

That’s a nicest thing anybody has said to me all week. Thank you.

[@ptg01]

Fascinating how most collections are very focused on JAZZ and Classic Rock... which unfortunately are not my favorite genres....

[@timessquarerecordscom1469]

Great video thanks 👍🎶

[@53puskas53]

The French psychiatrist Lacan would say that collecting things is an attempt to cover up the central void in our lives, almost certainly true in my case.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

I don’t think it feels avoiding our lives. I think it adds to our lives. What same person who loves music would not want to have as much of it as possible in their home?

[@53puskas53]

I agree with you normally, but sometimes I have doubts ... anyway thank you sincerely for all your wonderful videos.

[@amosperrine1909]

Yet another great vid. Someone once called me a record collector, I said I was not, I listen to records. Maybe it's just semantics, some 30,000 LPs later. Anyway, I am astounded by the prices, I have a second press of the highly desirable Helen Merrill self titled Em Arcy LP, the $ difference between it and the first press is huge, but is the sound quality any different. I do have a first press of Muddy Waters Moaning' in the Moonlight, sounds noisy as all get out,, nevertheless goes for significant bucks. BTW, these two records, like 99.9% of my records were either bought new or used for $3-5. Those days are looooong gone.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Tell it!

[@pmpgonzalez]

Simple answer for me: I buy records because I love music. Collecting is an unavoidable side effect :)

[@Digginbehindthedikes]

I'm definitely not a collector in the sense that I need to have everything. Nor am I a completist. Apart from the music, I do have a fascination, always have, for vintage vinyl. I takes me back to the time of my youth or even before i was born. There's definitely melancholy involved. These old records remind me of times when thing were better or less complicated even if that's not necessarily the case. That said, it needs to be music I'm interested in for sure or I could just buy any old record. I don't buy records as an investment but it can be an excuse when I'm about to spend more than I would usually allow myself. Thinking I can always resell it and I'll get my money back. In the end those records stay on the shelf as you would have guessed. Also collecting records seems to be more like a male thing typically.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Interesting the original consumers behind the vinyl resurgence in the late 2000s were women. And we do get women looking for records at the jazz record center. But as always, this is largely a male pursuit.

[@garyk.2712]

Good essay Ken. Always appreciate your POV. BUT the audio!! Please do some research in better vlog microphone. Audio is important. Don’t want to hears so much room. Thx ☮️

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Sorry, this was just a quick video made on my iPhone. At home I have a full digital camera and external mic set up. Thanks for watching.

[@bradlewin8]

Beats spending money on liquor. 😅

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Ahh I do that too

[@socratesbsd]

I've been buying records since the late 60s and Ive never stopped. Ive had a turntable all my life, never went through the "Ive sold my records and turntables and gone digital" phase many have. Sure I had cassette decks and I have digital now but there has never been a reason for me to stop buying records

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Right on

[@tonykazz2779]

People collect everything. A KZbin guy collects vintage tobacco lighters , he does nice video on each piece. People collect Cars People collect Guns People collect phono Cartridges ( vintage Koetsu were the best ) The best collecting is the Money collector people ! I bought vinyl from the Long Playing era , most vinyl is poor quality , some vinyl like RR and Acoustic Sounds is quite good but most vinyl is hard to like or listen to. Oh well !! People like Ken Micallef are worth collecting : gems , he's one of the very best !! Tony in Sarasota Florida : a digital music collector

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

Tony. I always appreciate you taking the time to comment. Have a great day in Florida.

[@brucevair-turnbull8082]

My mantlepiece collects dust!🤣

[@TheRk1111]

I'm not a collector I guess, I'm a listener. I want what sounds best and that does not always mean records(you know some of the newly re-mastered ones).

[@stephanel.4555]

Is sound quality relevant?

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

That’s a different question

[@stephanel.4555]

Agreed. One more thing that drives "collection" is the desire to listen to all the music of artists that we like. I'm an Ellington "completist", I can't resist it :)

[@7and12inchvinyl]

Mmmmm

[@trevorbartram5473]

For boomers who liked music, there was no alternative to collecting. Concerts, radio & TV only partially filled the hunger. Simple as that.

[@TimeHater420]

Wanted to join the community but it wouldn't let me in. Kept asking a dumb question abt the difference between a count and a duke. So stupid.

[@kenmicallefjazzvinylaudiop6455]

@@TimeHater420 you can’t be bothered to answer the question you obviously don’t care about joining the group. I have to sort out trolls and spammers all day long. So stupid.

[@bradlewin8]

Beats spending money on liquor. 😅

[@dustinshaver3173]

One thing that don't belong together is liquor and records! Asking for trouble