Dexter Gordon by Herman Leonard
If anybody out there loves classic jazz (there went 93% of you) and still listens to vinyl (there went 87% of those remaining), check out popmarket.com sometime within the next sixteen hours and nine minutes.
(I need Ctein to tell me what 13% of 7% is. On the good side, at least I'm not an elector in Miami-Dade.)
Mike
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Featured Comments from:
Jeff: "I've spent many nights looking at jazz photo books while listening to various Blue Note vinyl and re-issues, mono and stereo, with a nice glass of wine. Almost as good as being in a live club. Ah, so nic(h)e."
Russell: "Hey! I qualify as one of the 1% (13% of 7%)! That is a great set of recordings. Now I still have the question to answer that has plagued me for the past 45 years or so...do I spend my hard earned cash on vinyl or more Tri-X?"
Mike replies: What is that, a Zen koan? [g]
Rob: "Oooh, I actually saw a large print of the Dexter Gordon photo in the Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe not too long ago. I immediately fell in love with it but did not purchase it, because I was in a frugal state of mind. But damn, it's a great image."
Bob Rosinsky: "I saw an exhibit of Herman Leonard photographs at our little art museum in Lakeland, Fla. The photos were stunning. He photographed all of the straight-ahead jazz greats using strobes in the '40s and '50s. The generators/packs probably weighed at least forty pounds. The prints at the exhibition were scanned from the original negatives, enhanced in Photoshop, printed onto transparency film with an Epson, and then the big Epson films were used to make stupendous contact prints on traditional silver gelatin paper.
"I got to meet him. He struck me as being a modest and genuinely nice person. He told me that Miles Davis always gave him access to photograph him. Herman said that there was no way a good photographer could take a bad picture of Miles.
"Final note: he apprenticed under Yousuf Karsh."
0.91% :)
Posted by: Stephen F Faust | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 07:58 PM
That might be a little high, then. Let's say 7% of 4%. That's probably more like it. [g]
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 08:34 PM
Try .91% (point nine one percent)
Posted by: James | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 09:01 PM
00.7 x 0.13 = 0.0091 or nearly 1%.
Posted by: Nico Burns | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 09:04 PM
13% of 7% are (100*0.07*0.13)% = 0.91%
kind regards,
sebastian
Posted by: sebastel | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 09:20 PM
I don't want to sign up to just find out the price. So what is the price oh purveyor of fine jazz?
Posted by: Eric Rose | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 09:21 PM
13 percent of 7 is 2.21 percent.
Posted by: LYLE | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 09:24 PM
About 1%, give or take.
I made the first cut, but not the second. Love the Leonard photograph, though.
Posted by: Ben Rosengart | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 09:40 PM
Love that picture. Dexter is my favourite sax player. By the way, thanks for introducing me to that site. I give myself 10 hours before I'm totally broke.
Posted by: Mike | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 10:13 PM
The niche within a niche is 0.91% of those who read this, according to the Chief Demographer in Residence.
Posted by: Mandeno Moments | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 10:33 PM
Damm you. I had told myself I was having a consumer free day today!
Posted by: David Boyce | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 11:37 PM
What a wonderful photograph. Back then, I'd loved to be a musicians' photographer as well. Oh, and I'm in the 7%, but not in the 0.91%, tho I'd also love to have a Thorens player as much as I'd like to have a Hassy of the C5xx series...
Posted by: Wolfgang Lonien | Wednesday, 07 November 2012 at 11:55 PM
.91%
Posted by: David Aiken | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 12:35 AM
Mike,
0.13 times 0.07 equals 0.0091, or about nine-tenths of one percent.
Hey! You're in the one percent!
Posted by: Mark | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 01:15 AM
I enjoy listening to the CBC jazz program, "Hot Air" usually on my way home from work in the evening when I work the night shift. BTW the Herman Leonard photo of Dexter Gordon is beautiful, I can only imagine what the print would look like.
Posted by: Gary Nylander | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 01:21 AM
It is 1.61%: 0.13ยท0.07=0.0161
Posted by: Arne Croell | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 02:09 AM
13% of 7% is 0.9%. So only about 1% of your readership is interested. If you really want to address a niche market, please write a post about crystallographic texture.
I hope Ctein doesn't mind my interfering with his math.
regards
Gijs
Posted by: Gijs Langelaan | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 02:43 AM
0.9 (following Ctein's lead who abhors superfluous decimal places) or 1%.
I don't belong to the 1%. Dexter Gordon along with Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and John Coltrane (on tenor not soprano sax) are my favorite classic sax soloists.
Posted by: Sarge | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 09:29 AM
Darn you, Mike! Wish you'd written "If [blah blah], DON'T check out popmarket.com..." (Nah, not really--that wouldn't have worked.) [sigh] I know this is going to lead to upgrade-itis re my ancient Hitachi turntable, too.
Thanks for the heads up!
(Never imagined that I was part of the 1%, but I think your estimate is too conservative. I bet your readership has a higher proportion of bop and vinyl fans than the general population.)
Posted by: robert e | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 10:22 AM
Mike, I'm among those 0,9%. However, I'll pass the offer for a simple reason - I have all those albums bar Kenny Burrell's. In 180g HQ vinyl and all four of them in pristine condition. Last sunday I happened to listen to two of them ("Moanin'" and "The Sidewinder"), which prompted me some thoughts about the relationship between Jazz and photography, which I expressed on my blog. (I was going to publish a link to the latter, but web translations from portuguese are so ludicrous I decided not to...)
Anyway, thanks for the useful tip. I used to buy Jazz LPs from truebluemusic.com, but apparently they've decided we the 0,9% aren't such a profittable niche.
Posted by: Manuel | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 11:04 AM
Jazz is like fine Scotch; you have to know what it's made of in order to *fully* appreciate it.
Posted by: Tony Rowlett | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 12:20 PM
I can't decide what is more amusing: doing the calculation for you or doing the calculation and getting it wrong.
Posted by: Ed | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 02:26 PM
"I'll pass the offer for a simple reason - I have all those albums bar Kenny Burrell's. In 180g HQ vinyl and all four of them in pristine condition."
Manuel,
That was my problem. I have them already.
Nice problem to have, though.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Thursday, 08 November 2012 at 03:53 PM