tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805095272435181099.post7349319060838117086..comments2024-02-10T04:02:19.545-06:00Comments on Jazz Note SDP: A Visit to the Jazz Record MartKen Blanchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09580209017016829598noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805095272435181099.post-23910154257528851972012-04-22T23:56:07.432-05:002012-04-22T23:56:07.432-05:00Thanks for the great note, Dave! I don't have...Thanks for the great note, Dave! I don't have much confidence in the future of record stores, but this one is still going and I love it.Ken Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09580209017016829598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4805095272435181099.post-80294280616656438672012-04-22T22:39:21.942-05:002012-04-22T22:39:21.942-05:00This really raises some memories regarding jazz. ...This really raises some memories regarding jazz. Back when I was a very young undergraduate, I had to drop out of school and find work in Chicago to come up with tuition. The economy in my hometown was in a down-cycle, and I was trying to decide whether to make the trumpet or the typewriter the instrument of my ambitions. For a year, I worked in the Wrigley Building, and the first place I went during the lunch break on payday was to the precursor of the Jazz Record Mart, Seymour's on South Wabash under the el tracks. I allowed myself one vinyl a payday, and it was usually Gillespie, Parker, Brubeck, Mulligan--people we studied and tried to emulate. Jazz was not studied in college back then, and we depended upon records. <br /><br />It is probably a good thing that the store was not on East Illinois at the time or I would probably have saved nothing for tuition. I lived only blocks away near the Northwestern Chicago campus, where I took night classes.<br /><br />I later moved further north where there were jazz clubs centered around North Broadway and Barry. I did not go into them because I was not old enough, but we hung around outside the doors where we could hear the sounds and smell the heavy smoke of cannabis. They were impoverished but extremely exciting times.<br /><br />Knowing that the Jazz Record Mart is still operating seems like stabilizing force in the world of the arts.David Newquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04937837001343753140noreply@blogger.com