Friday, July 24, 2009

The Good Old Days

Like a lot of jazz fans, I buy most of my CDs through mail order, but back in the day (the day being when we actually had things called record stores) I also bought from brick-and-mortar outfits to support their efforts. For example, the Tower store here in Dallas had a surprisingly good jazz section. There was just no substitute for browsing, finding something unexpected, and taking it home that day.

This is surely a case of beating a dead horse, but I find it incredibly sad that I can’t go out on my day off and buy a copy of one of the new ECMs (Parker, Sclavis, Vitous) anywhere in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex.  An area of several million people, and no one carries this stuff anymore!

2 comments:

  1. Yeah...the last of the independent jazz record stores in seattle (Bud's Jazz Records) closed its doors earlier this year. It was a sad day indeed...

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  2. Wow, a whole store with nothing but jazz, that had to be nirvana...

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