650 gbs of early jazz 4 FREE

recently, the entire jazz cassette (jazzette) collection of a music teacher has been unearthed. find it here.

https://archive.org/details/davidwnivenjazz

enjoy the music

damn, that's a lot to dig through, thanks for the heads up.

woah. thanks for pointing this out.

awesome. would be nice if it was compressed though. (it is)

He must've played those tapes a bit. Also 'early jazz' is a bit of a stretch. 'cept for the odd tape. I was kind of expecting more hard to find stuff, as it's all well known, but maybe i didn't dig down enough.

cheers guys!

re:delet...: im a jazz noob, so this is a good entry point. from what era to what era does the collection go? i'd like to adjust the topic title accordingly

It's ok man, people will figure it out. But if you need to know, there's a lot of bebop/cool and late swing eras 40s/50s, with the occasional earlier thing like bix beiderbecke from the 20s (lol, I won't be able to say 'the 20s' and have it mean 1920s soon). That is the musical time period of jazz that really stuck with people of later eras, so it's a good time to have releases from as it has all the standards and names people want to hear, unless they're a trad nut.

My grandfather used to import jazz records into England for himself and his friends in the 20s and 30s, and when I played him bebop it never really spoke to him in the same ramshackle (this doesn't mean unaccomplished, just loose) energetic way that the best of the earlier period went about things. He wasn't one of these trad people though, that was the beat poet generation, rejecting the new jazz idioms coming to the fore in the 50s, for a 'purer' earlier style, wankers in other words.

  On 2/26/2016 at 1:14 AM, delet... said:

He must've played those tapes a bit. Also 'early jazz' is a bit of a stretch. 'cept for the odd tape. I was kind of expecting more hard to find stuff, as it's all well known, but maybe i didn't dig down enough.

Looking for the underground bebop, eh! Dunno if there was much of the off the wall swing/bebop on record at the time. But anything from the 20s to the 40s is great stuff. In any genre.

This is quite a haul, thanks for the link, double uv.