When I was twelve and had just taken up the saxophone, my mom brought home a jazz record for me - Budd Johnson's Ya! Ya! on the Argo label - because it had a picture of Johnson and his saxophone on the cover. I was disappointed; I would have rather had a rock record at the time. But I listened to the album and enjoyed it, and pored over the inner sleeve, which was covered with pictures of other Argo albums. These fascinated me. I didn't know many of the names, but they seemed "important," and it turns out that many them were important in the jazz world. In any case, I knew that I wanted to hear as much of this music as possible. I now have (on LP or CD) over a fourth of the albums pictured here, plus many from the other side of the sleeve.
Jazz lovers should click to enlarge the picture - see how many of these you have.
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