Collecting Jazz

Collecting JazzThe Jazz Record Collector is the craziest: he's happy to hock his last clean suit for a new hunk of wax and he's likely to go for broke over a dusty original featuring some early-day sideman like Dominick LaRocca. The wise collector buys his records when they are issued, of course – and this is usually a cinch when one is concerned with material in today's cooler idiom – but there are some of us who weren't around when Earl Hines was thumping the ivories for HRS and Armstrong's Ho...