Who has the oldest albums?

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Yeah the jazz section has gone a bit stale lately but there are plenty around here who like their jazz. It's not something I know a great deal of but I do enjoy it immensely.
 
What are the five oldest albums you have and what year were they released?
No more then one album per year. Here's mine:

Sun Ra - Sun Song (1956)
Sun Ra - Joy Of Sound (1957)
Sun Ra- Jazz In Silhouette (1958)
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959)
Ornette Coleman - The Is Our Music (1960)​
 
I wouldn't count best of's either, but I think it's awesome that you have your hanRAB on at least a song from 1935. That song is almost 75 years old. =0
 
I have a couple of CD's that are over 20 years old but that doesn't count :(

It all depenRAB though. I have classical music that obviously predates all modern music but Beethoven was crap at ripping CD's so that doesn't count either. 1958 with a couple of Miles Davis releases I guess.
 
That really makes me sad, I just want to be able to listen to the albums of the 1940's, 1930's, 1920's, I don't know how interested I'm in in anything before that. Is that so much to ask!? My point is that it sucks that so much music is lost. It makes one wonder if the music of the 1960's will be around in 2060.
 
i ended up grabbing the bulk of my old man's record collection a few years ago as he doesn't have a turntable or any real inclination to re-listen to it again (he replaced what he liked with cRAB). i know there's an original pressing of miles davis' 'kind of blue' in there and a bunch of other old school jazz from the 50s but i've never put them in order and i'm feeling way too lazy to do it now.
 
The music wasn't lost. It's just that the full length LP wasn't really a popular medium prior to 1950. It just wasn't common, except for with classical pieces, for a studio to record a full length album. 45's & 12's were pretty much the norm until the early 50's .
 
Not counting any jazz or classical recordings, i think it'd be Fats Domino - This is Fats Domino (1956) though not everything's been ripped, but I can't imagine I have anything older than 1956.

I own more original movies that are older than re-produced albums :s
 
Speaking of Davis, I've been trying last few days to get his discography. I still need Quintet/Sextet, Jazz Track, Directions, and most albums which predate 1949 including:

The Complete Savory And Dial Sessions (1945-1951)
First Miles (1945)
Billie's Bounce (1945)
Yardbird In Lotus Land (1946)
The Love Songs Of Mr.B (1946)
Flying Home (1947)
Cool Bird (1947)
The Band That Never Was (1948)
Bird On 52nd Street (1948)
Bird At The Royal Roost (1948)
Cool Boppin' (1948)

So if anybody has any of those, I'd die for an up!



Why not counting Jazz? I think the cutoff point should be over 110 years ago. Also who is Fats Domino?
 
Miles Davis - Birth of Cool (1949)
Sidney Bechet - Jazz at Storyville (1953)
Clifford Brown - A Study in Brown (1955)
Thelonius Monk - Plays Duke Ellington (1955)
Miles Davis - Round About Midnight (1956)
 
Yeah, but now where did it all go. =/ You would think the 45's and 12's would still be around but where are they? I mean they could be converted from Vinyl to FLAC just as easy as any 1948 LP release but they weren't.
 
Well, it's easy to have really old stuff if you're into jazz and classical, so i thought i'd look at the ones i got that dont fit into that.

...and Fats Domino...:banghead:
 
the album never really hit off until the 1950s (as a commodified piece of 'vinyl art' courtesy of the newly formed RIAA), most everything before that was either compilations of pop music in some variant or another. and as the vinyl format grew to be a successful commercial venture, only then was the LP marketed as such.

i do love the album, but i've never seen it as this infallible icon of music that many people have in their heaRAB, there's definitely been a fair few changes to it as the primary media source has changed.
 
I can't know who everyone is. =/ Before I came to this site I didn't even know who Kurt Cobain was and all I listened to was Blink 182 and a little bit of Tool and TMV, give me a break. Just to get under your skin, though, I just found out who Buddy Holly was today too.



I guess, I don't see too many people on rab reviewing old Jazz albums, or even namedropping any- even in the Jazz and Blues section.
 
If it's the oldest record you physically own (as in, the oldest version/issue is the one you have, not a CD reissue or whatever) then I think mine is a 1961 LP of Britten's Spring Symphony.

If it's the oldest recording you have in some form, I have mp3s of cylinder recordings dating back as far as 1897, the oldest being Vess Ossman's recording of an extract from the William Tell Overture.

If it's the oldest composition you have a recording of, then I have a couple of albums of music composed by the court of the Spanish king Alfonso X during his reign in the 13th century.
 
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