"The next biggest amount of material I have is of the great Chillean pianist Claudio Arrau. Sadly I doubt if we will ever see their like again." Claudio Arrau with Staatskapelle Dresden, Beethoven’s 5th piano concert. It does not get any better than that. I have ony 15 versions to compare, though. Otherwise, Gustav Mahler (far from my favorite one) 37 Kris Kristofferson 27 (not counting duplicates in multiple, or even same, format) The Rolling Stones 47 (including 4 different versions of Exile on the Main Street which I do not particularly like) Bob Dylan 50 (not including 2 versions of Blonde on Blonde on SACD and Blood on the Tracks cassette, LP, CD, SACD, and Mini Disc, missing 8-track) Leonard Cohen everything on CD, remastered CD, one single (small size) CD, and LPs (two LP versions each of the older ones and one each of last 5, or so, albums) I actually like disco. |
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Speaking of Rodney Crowell side projects, do you have the CICADAS album? It's well worth your while. The other members were Steuart Smith on guitars, Michael Rhodes on bass & Vince Santoro on drums. Mostly original tunes along with a smokin' cover of "Tobacco Road!" |
Jjborders, 52 more and I've caught up with you on Art Pepper. Nice collection on him. Only eight more though on Sonny Rollins to catch you.
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53 Art Pepper albums. Sonny Rollins is a distant second at 25.
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Oregonpapa, couldn’t agree with you more. Used CD’s are especially great as they almost always play perfectly, unlike used LP’s. Those last two Coltranes purchased were both used and in mint condition. No need to pay retail for new.
Never heard of Boxcar Willie or Claudio Arreau before so am learning something new from you all.
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Just a shout-out to all of you guys who are donating your CDs to the thrift stores, or blowing them out at your garage sales. Like the LP folks that preceded you, I, and several of my friends, thank you from the bottom of our ever-lovin' hearts. :-)
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@skyscraper I Think without going and physically counting the I would say I have about 350 CDs of Bach related music but I'm afraid I have jettisoned my Cds to the outhouse now as when I retired I got DB Poweramp and copied them all to hard drives. I must have about 3,000 cds in there and I have been thinking lately of selling them on and replacing my ageing much loved but very well used Sennheiser HD800 headphones and getting another pair. |
@schubert So why isn't your handle @jsbach???? ;-) |
tpreaves ... Thanks for the heads up on Boxcar Willie. Been playing his stuff on Spotify. Love it. Great music to follow along with on the harmonica. Good old down-home country music. Two thumbs up. Frank |
Yup, Bach for sure. Several hundred, mostly on CD. Also Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Handel, Purcell, Rameau, Scarlatti, Couperin. Obviously, heavy on Baroque. In Pop, Dylan (everything). Then Dave Edmunds (ditto), The Everly Brothers (no Everly Brothers = no The Beatles), The Louvin Brothers (no Louvin Brothers = no The Everly Brothers), Buddy Holly, Nick Lowe, The Band (no duh), The Beach Boys (those when Brian was a member), Van Dyke Parks, ABBA (go ahead, laugh. You’re mistaken ;-), The Kinks (whatta group!), The Flamin’ Groovies, The Ventures, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson, Iris Dement, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Steve Earle, Mary Gauthier, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Marshall Crenshaw, Hank Williams, George Jones, Del McCoury, all the regulars. But some of my favorite music has been made by bands/groups/artists with a small discography. Rockpile (a single album, though the ensemble is heard on many of Edmunds’ and Lowe’s albums), The Notorious Cherry Bombs (a Rodney Crowell/Vince Gill side-project, with a single album). I could go on, but my glass is empty, and I’m low on Vodka. Gotta get to the liquor store. |
I have about 200 Boxcar Willie albums. |
Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan here. Stones and Beatles in the mix, but not close. |
The only artist I have large number of CDs is Beethoven who I have several sets of symphonies including Furtwangler. |
Schubert, of all the Bach recordings you have which are your favorites, and which do you play most.? That is an impressive collection by anyone’s measure. Are you still finding more to purchase or have you exhausted his canon.
Jim204, about how many Bach recordings do you estimate you have?
Edgewear, that’s an impressive Zappa collection. Any favorite recordings where he plays, rather than dinks around. One of the best concerts I ever went to, at school in the early seventies, consisted of Zappa playing a scintillating solo on "Montana". Rest of the concert was mostly him yanking our chain, but that solo was so original to be completely unforgettable.
Three_easy_payments, you’re right, Ron Carter is on a lot of recordings. I’d not noticed that before.
All the rest of you fine folks, about how many of the artists you mentioned albums have you collected . That’s what I’d really like to know. I can’t imagine anyone surpassing Schuberts Bach collection though. I’m willing to offer a cherished "No prize", earned on another site, to anyone who eclipses that total.
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If we’re counting single artists appearing with other groups, Ray Brown would be up there in my collection. Other than that, the Dave Brubeck section is starting to crowd out the Chet Baker and Cannonball Adderley section.
In the classical closet, Bach seems to be overtaking Beethoven.
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Ron Carter has appeared on 2,221 recording sessions. For jazz enthusiasts, you could have more recordings with Ron on them than any other musician in your collection and not even realize it ;-) |
Chopin
Mozart
Bach
Haydn
Beethoven
Haydn
Vivaldi
Evans
Jarrett
Mehldau
Garbarek...
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I’m a Frank Zappa completist, which means I’m over a hundred albums and counting. ’The Torture Never Stops’ .......😎 (would have been nice to stick in his trademark moustache here).
I can’t help wondering what FZ’s comments would have been about the current state of the world and US leadership in particular. ’Dickie’s Such An Asshole’ wouldn’t even begin to cover it....
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@schubert .I'm definitely with you there Len, got to be the best composer who ever lived and the amount of work he created was all to such a high standard.I too have a massive amount of material composed by him. The next biggest amount of material I have is of the great Chillean pianist Claudio Arrau. Sadly I doubt if we will ever see their like again.
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Glad to meet you ! I have over 500 albums of the greatest artist who ever lived , one Johann Sebastian Bach .
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The question at hand is, does any one of you have more than 48 albums by any one artist, be it an individual, band or composer. There's got to be someone out there who does, or even might have a larger Coltrane collection. Now that's a person I'd like to meet.
Edcyn, even though your band might have been awful, I bet you had a lot of fun playing together.
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I love a lot of composers, musicians and genres, but the ones I've built sizable collections of include Bowie, The Byrds, The Doors, Dylan, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Bartok, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Genesis, Tchaikovsky, Fritz Wunderlich, Benjamin Britten, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, The Vienna Phil, Springsteen, Sinatra, Clapton, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Bruno Walter. I also got heavily into the 1970's New York Punk/New Wave scene. I tried my best to see every New York New Wave/Punk band that showed up in L.A. during that period. I loved the Seattle Bands. I played in a New Wave band that went absolutely nowhere. The reason? We were awful.
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Oh wow, where to start?
Napalm death
onslaught
mercyful fate/king diamond.
VENOM
Bathory
tank
raven
motorhead
celtic frost
nuclear assault. MSG
IM A COLLECTOR, as well as a music lover. !! Thank
magnum
riot
satan jokers
. And 500, other bands!
mostnbands I buy, I will get the entire discographies!
im anal!
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