#bud poweel

[buenasuerterecord]

Bud Powell - Blues in the closet

[meowcatsleeves-blog-blog]

How does a heavy cat sleeve collector actually act? Well, I must admit, I work in the wonderful world of the so called 'music industry'. So, a lot of doors open more quickly for me than for outsiders. And even if the doors don't open themselves, at least I mostly know were the key is to be found...

So I started informing record companies, record shops, people in the business and everytime I visited other countries, I dropped by at record shops. So I went crate diggin' in Iceland, Barcelona (Spain), New York (Us), Holland, Paris (France),... Result: my collection grew rapidly...

In the beginning I focussed myself in every shop on the jazz section. A jazz musician is quite often called a jazz cat, so there must have been a lot of jazz records around with cats on the sleeve... I had the Dave Douglas album 'Soul On Soul') already, but suddenly bumped into the cover of 'The Cat' ('64 - Verve Records) by organ player Jimmy Smith. The record had cat references all over. On the front, the back and even on the inside. A crown jewel in my collection at that time.

And with albums - with cats on the cover - that followed from other legendary jazz musicians like Bud Powell, Buck Clayton and Andrew Hill,... I realised I took it one step further. I had a 'sub category' in my collection.