Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Streetlight records. A Bay Area chain w only 2 locations left I think. Other in Santa Cruz maybe. Big store w some nice discount bins but seems to do more cd / video sales. Have found a couple things there so if you have time worth a stop 120
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026On the corner music. Prob favorite store of those down in San Jose. Very small but no frills and nice selection for size. Focus mostly on used records. Pretty decent jazz section and always saw a few nice wall items there 150
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Needle to the Groove. Stealing internet photos cuz I forget to take photos. Prob of San Jose stores bought most records here. Partly cuz I think they had a huge avant garde, ecm & 80s jazz buy a year or 2 ago but very good store w focus on hip hop / electronic but tons of jazz 120
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026#vinyl San Jose stores 1st. Didn’t actually get to San Jose much but did stop by 3 stores if in the city. Overall ranking 4 Bay Area sections for their record stores it’s prob in order 1. SF, 2. East Bay, 3. Marin, 4. San Jose. But there is some good stuff to be found there🧵 140
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Finally leaving San Francisco / Bay Area after 15+ years. Mostly to be close to family but also Bay Area is too expensive & tired of tech bros esp AI shit. Anyway going to post a bunch about all the records stores in the area. Visiting a bunch before I leave (bad for moving ik…) 050
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 12/02/2026And here’s the us reissue cover. Original cover way way better imo 000
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 12/02/2026#NowPlaying #Jazz 1983 USSR. Back to the Soviet jazz. This is pretty heavy fusion prog leaning stuff. Kinda sounds like a more spaced out Jan Hammer w/ no vocals. Except for last song which gets pretty 80s jazz ballad-y 140
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 10/02/2026#jazz #vinyl prob used up my record digging luck for a long time... (not that this record is that crazy expensive but it was way way up there on my want list and Bonner is one of my favorites) 020
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 09/02/2026And here’s the original cover art which goes a bit harder 020
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 09/02/2026#NowPlaying #Jazz 1985 us reissue. More from Salvation Army Soviet Jazz haul. Guitar led jazz that kinda toes line between Jim Hall conventionality & poor man’s Larry Coryell fusion (not a bad thing!). Pretty nice stuff that goes a bit harder in spots than the reissue cover art 130
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Also didn’t realize that I ended up picking up 3 different versions of this album. Think I like the us reissue cover the best 001
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 08/02/2026#NowPlaying #jazz 1982 USSR. Ganelin, Cekasin, Tarasov (Ganelin Trio) - Poi Segue. Some Soviet free jazz tonight. Early one from what would eventually be the Ganelin Trio. Live album. 1 long song stretched over 2 sides. Slow build on side 1 then gets looser on side 2 121
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Sorry got lazy and only posted to twitter not here about some of them. Will post a couple here too tho just for you haha who seems like only person also into it (a weird jazz sicko) like me 110
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 21/01/2026m.youtube.com/watch?v=cSpt...m.youtube.comTeenagerYouTube video by Oscar Peterson - Topic 031
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 21/01/20261979 us. Oscar Peterson in electric piano w Joe Pass, NHOP & Louie Bellson. Idk what you’re doing now but you need to listen to the final song Teenager on this album. What a groove! 251
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 18/01/2026And here’s what I picked up. A number of these are different pressings of the same album. Love Namyslowski & aware of Ganelin trio but rest completely new to me 010
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Still listening to everything I picked up! 000
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Haha only that it means more Pablos in the discount bins for me. Most likely f not all you can find for 5-10 and the were recorded & pressed really well already no idea why there needs to be a $40-50 audiophile copy 010
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Taking a break from posting Pablo records to share on here the most exciting thing that happened to me this week 120
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 17/01/20261982 us. A great Oscar Peterson live trio album. Worth it for the title track specifically which is from a larger suite he never finished. Stunning song. Also has some of the best sounding live bass recording I’ve ever heard. NHOP sounds immense 140
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/01/20261975 us. I’ve found that any Joe pass on Pablo is going to be really good. And this is one of the best of the bunch. Pass leads a trio through some Duke Ellington compositions 020
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Haha the cover photo is so funny to me. He looks like he ate a way too big meal and is full of regret 020
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 14/01/20261982 us. Another Pablo favorite. Group title is misleading as it’s actually a quintet album w additional percussion on a couple tracks. Harold Land is the other horn on the album. 1st song especially would have killed on an early CTI album. What were they thinking w Hubbard’s photo tho!? 130
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 14/01/20261984 us. 2b of favorite Pablo records so far. Not quite sure why this one works so well compared to others he released on pablo w his orchestra but something very classic about the song choices (mostly blues) on this 030
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 13/01/20261974 us. Prob my 2nd favorite of the Pablo albums I’ve picked up. Joe Pass does in fact prove his virtuosity on this album & he would go on to do so 2 more times 030
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 13/01/20261975 us. Restarting some posts here since twitter is getting worse again. Been really into Pablo records recently so going to post some favorites I’ve picked up recently. This has probably been my favorite so far. Amazing piano / bass duet album 590
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Nice thanks! Mostly got tired (too lazy) of posting in both places but yeah w twitter as bad as it is now haha imagine I’ll be here instead soon 010
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 17/09/2025#NowPlaying #jazz 1975. Picked this up w/out ever hearing it based on names involved. Opening track has some spoken word poetry & last track closes w the whole group having what sounds like a full on celebration. In between is some great free playing w thundering drums 150
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 15/09/2025#vinyl #Jazz couldn’t stay away from a record fair happening yesterday. For some reason all the good deals were Japanese & 70s blue notes that I didn’t have 070
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025#vinyl #jazz everything I grabbed in Montreal. Despite what it looks like kept it pretty light. 3 or less records per store & every record under 30 CAD whatever that coverts too. But def wanted to spend a lot more at aux 33 tours tho… 0100
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 07/09/2025#vinyl #jazz ended up w less time than hoped to record shop in Montreal. Hit up 4 stores but didn’t make it out to a few that were farther from downtown. Cie la vie…(lol). Aux 33 tours was huge highlight should have just started there. Freesons had an ecm section! Rest a bit meh 060
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 06/09/2025#NowPlaying #Jazz 1975 Japan Reissue. A Paul Bley classic. Also will be in Paul Bley’s hometown (Montreal) for a couple days if anyone has any record store recommendations there 1151
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 03/09/2025#Jazz #vinyl Labor Day weekend pick ups. The Stephen McCraven-Sam Rivers album was completely new to me as of a couple weeks ago but got obsessed w it pretty quickly. A local store had a copy & made a couple Discogs sales to be able to afford it 060
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 01/09/2025#NowPlaying #Jazz 1979 us. Happy birthday Art Pepper! Very good later career album. Doesn’t quite hit the high point of Today’s Patricia but is a really nice album. Red Mitchell’s bass playing on here especially adds a really nice dark foreboding touch to the ballads 040
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Yeah that was my problem w it for awhile. Una mas is a bit more complex song and I started listening more for Hancock who is doing a lot more than harris did on sidewinder. Side 2 of this is great tho 010
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 30/08/2025#NowPIaying #jazz 1973 us stereo reissue. Happy birthday Kenny Dorham. An all time great. This is his blue note album I was slowest to come around on oddly. Title track was a little too going for sidewinder and rest never fully clicked. Has now tho. And Hancock on this esp 1100
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Yeah tho don’t have a copy. Prob will grab the tone poet whenever there is a sale. Like what they did w the cover art on it 010
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 28/08/2025#NowPlaying #jazz Running thru 3 of the greatest blue note albums this afternoon. Have always viewed these 3 as a trilogy of sorts & finally got a 70s rvg copy of Destination Out to complete it. Some of the best & still most forward sounding jazz that exists 181
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 27/08/2025#NowPlaying #jazz 1982 us. Top tier Waldron w an amazing group here. 1st song let’s Jordan go just about hard bop swing mode for a bit & then things get darker & go deep into vintage Waldron territory. McBee is great on here as usual 070
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 27/08/2025#NowPlaying #Jazz 1979 us. No idea what Farrell/label were thinking w this album cover art. Has a very “hey there fellow kids” feel but album is very good. Farrell stays on tenor sax & Chick Corea joins mostly in non-fusion hard bop mode w a little electric piano mixed in 150
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Get up on it is the best miles album. Still ahead of its time 000
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 26/08/2025#NowPlaying #Jazz early 60s stereo reissue. Happy Birthday Wayne Shorter! His very first as leader. Definitely more Coltrane influence sounding than what his later sound and songwriting would be but this is very good hard bop album 060
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 24/08/2025#NowPlaying #jazz 1970 us. Sunday morning wife is out of town so I can play whatever I want in the morning music. 060
Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 23/08/2025#nowplaying #jazz 1981 us. 1st ever listen to this. Don’t think it’s on streaming tho can buy digital from artist’s Bandcamp! Really nice stuff. Berne is def very Julius Hemphill influenced here but some very interesting compositions w plenty of room for each musician involved 040
