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Chapter 19
Ten Tips for Building and Enjoying
a Jazz Collection
In This Chapter
� Capturing the story of your life with jazz
� Choosing your media and assembling a sound system
� Moving with portable music and headphones
� Setting up a music space
� Caring for your collection
� Expanding your collection
Collecting music is, to me, one of life’s great pleasures — the hunt,
the find, the purchase, the payoff: playing it for the first time. I can’t
describe what a rush I felt when I stumbled across a vinyl version of the Duke
Ellington Orchestra’s famous live Fargo, N.D. 1940 album.
There’s only one rule about assembling a great collection of jazz: There are
no rules. The music you select is a means of expressing your own emotions,
personality, and tastes. The albums and artists you choose, the way you
store or display them, the equipment you use, the way you integrate music
into your life — these elements help make your personal statement. In this
chapter, I give you ten tips for starting a jazz collection and enjoying it to the
fullest.
Tell Your Own Story with Jazz
My collection is like a diary of my life. I started collecting music in the ’60s. In
orange crates is my adolescent vinyl, acquired between the ages of 10 and 20.
These records are a mix of rock and jazz: Ahmad Jamal, Miles Davis, Herbie