So after a couple of morning BJJ classes which were humbling in more ways than one, I decided to prove that I’m still a young hep cat by going to Relics and spending the remaining gift certificate I received for my birthday (I got four, and I spent the others in February and March. As they only are good six months, I had to spend this remaining one before the end of August, and I hoped for some exercise, since two hours on the BJJ mats and having my youngest son dig his hands into my kidneys don’t count because I take my watch off.
Oh, but no. For there’s a new record booth in the first row, and it had an organized and fairly well-stocked Jazz section.
I made it to K before realizing I’d overshot my $25.
I got:
- Sleeping Gypsy by Michael Franks.
- Cross Currents by Eliane Elias, whose name I can pronounce correctly. I got one of her CDs back in the days when I bought them because I liked a song on KCSM or WSIE. But not this one, which is from…. 1988? How is that possible?
- More Stuff by Stuff which was in the “bargain” crate, not the jazz crate, but it looks to be jazz anyway.
- Two(?) by Dave Gruisin: Dave Gruisin & the NY-LA Dream Band (the original 1982 release) and Piano, Strings and Moonlight: The Many Moods of Dave Gruisin (from 1962? It fits the cover). He’s the “Mountain Dance” guy if you listen to WSIE, but he’s much more, and I suppose I’ll have to look for him in the wild now. I guess I almost consider Relics to be “the wild,” but at $5 a record, that’s a safari-style wild.
- Living Inside Your Love by Earl Klugh.
- Twice the Love by George Benson. A promotional copy, not for resale. Which I likely won’t, but my heirs, yeah, likely so.
I spent about $14 in cash on them. Now that I’m out of gift cards, it’s back to $3 and under records for me. These were $5-7, so not terrible, and they were in much better shape than the ratty ones I fish out of estate sales and on Saturdays at the Friends of the Library book sale. So I suppose I should go listen to them now (and by the time you’re done reading this, I will likely have listened to one or more, but not all.
