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The A's.

The collection is light on A's. As I'm flipping through in preparation for this blog project, I find myself surprised by some gaps in what I was expecting to see. Probably a few jewel cases floating around in a milk crate somewhere in the house, still. "Cannonball" Adderly, "Somethin' Else!" (1958) Classic Blue note bop, led by saxophonist Adderly and featuring fellow legends Art Blakey on drums and Miles Davis on trumpet. I listened to jazz a lot in my early adolescence, probably for the typical reasons a fey, too-smart white dude in his teens would. Not to say I didn't earnestly like it, just that it was *also* an affectation. This is a very good set. If you want to understand the bop era, give this a good close listen, but it's also pleasing and groovy enough to be background music at a cocktail party. The Aislers Set, "How I Learned to Write Backwards" (2002) I have a lot of albums like this--fuzzy female-fronted indie pop. Th...
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Mission statement: the CD collection project.

I have around 400 CDs. The collection is mostly indie-rock of its era or earlier classic rock, with a lot of jazz as well, but it ranges widely. The precise set of albums I own is haphazard. Many came from a Columbia House subscription I had in college; the rest were based on whim when I was in CD stores. The albums aren’t some sort of definitive list of what’s the greatest or what I love the most—they’re just what I happen to own in that particular format. My peak CD-buying years were, like most people, roughly 1995-2005, after which digital services largely displaced it. I’ve bought new digital music—and new vinyl—in recent years, but haven’t bought a CD, and the technology of finding and consuming music has advanced such that I rarely listen to CDs. In the last of the several moves I’ve made in the decade and a half since my peak CD buying era, I switched out my collection from milk crates and jewel cases to liner notes and discs stuffed into four big black zippered cases. There...
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