The Jazz Discography
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:19 am
Jesse has urged me to post about this:
I've been following The Jazz Discography for years now, but have never purchased it because of its cost. For those who have never heard of it, The Jazz Discography is a comprehensive catalog of virtually every jazz recording session ever made. For real. I have yet to find anything, even in my bootleg collection, that's not listed in this thing.
This project has been compiled for decades by this guy, Tom Lord, and for decades it was only available in huge encyclopedia-sized book form for thousands of dollars. Obviously not worth the money to me. *Then* it was available on searchable CD-ROM for hundreds of dollars. More useful but still kinda pricey. Finally, they recently opened it up to a web subscription, which is updated daily, and works out to something like $15 a month. Definitely a price I can handle, plus I can access it from anywhere.
Since I've gotten it, I've identified (and purchased) multiple recordings by George Reed from the 50's and 60's, gotten new insight into Slim and Slam alternate takes, and found out my rare Johnny Hodges bootleg was released on CD as well as the totally ghetto LP I own.
This probably isn't worth it for the casual DJ, but I find it immensely useful. Check it out at www.lordisco.com
Mike
I've been following The Jazz Discography for years now, but have never purchased it because of its cost. For those who have never heard of it, The Jazz Discography is a comprehensive catalog of virtually every jazz recording session ever made. For real. I have yet to find anything, even in my bootleg collection, that's not listed in this thing.
This project has been compiled for decades by this guy, Tom Lord, and for decades it was only available in huge encyclopedia-sized book form for thousands of dollars. Obviously not worth the money to me. *Then* it was available on searchable CD-ROM for hundreds of dollars. More useful but still kinda pricey. Finally, they recently opened it up to a web subscription, which is updated daily, and works out to something like $15 a month. Definitely a price I can handle, plus I can access it from anywhere.
Since I've gotten it, I've identified (and purchased) multiple recordings by George Reed from the 50's and 60's, gotten new insight into Slim and Slam alternate takes, and found out my rare Johnny Hodges bootleg was released on CD as well as the totally ghetto LP I own.
This probably isn't worth it for the casual DJ, but I find it immensely useful. Check it out at www.lordisco.com
Mike