This post follows up on where to find new music. In most cases, those two collections named will probably keep you busy for quite a while and might be more then sufficient.
If you want to dig deeper though, there are a couple of other ways of course, and these are ways I use:
Who Played With Whom
Find out who played in the bands you like and look for those names. Often there were sub-groups or they formed groups later on in their career. Information about who played with whom can be found e.g. on the covers of the chronological series (background image) or wikipedia. Looking for members of Duke Ellington's band, I found Johnny Hodges, who has some amazing recordings himself.
Books
On that note I want to mention a book, "This thing called swing", where there are plenty of connections shown, and many interesting people named.
Antique Shops
Occasionally you have luck looking for old records in shops. Success strongly depends also on what country and city you live in. I've personally never found anything useful, but I know people who have built their collection by doing this.
Internet
- free online music like Spotify or Deezer (might be country dependent)
- Often music from that time is now freely and legally available on the net. The thing to watch out for is illegal downloading and poor quality (below 192 kbit/s) (e.g. youtube).
Search for
- public domain repositories (archive.org, http://publicdomain4u.com/)
- chronological covers on google, and find forums that share public domain music
- archives
- blogs
Collections
The two collections mentioned in the former post are of course in this category. But from time to time you'll find offers on shops like amazon - 200 songs for 5 bucks. You will probably toss 190 or even 195 of those songs, but if there is one good song in that collection and you did chose this path, it was probably worth the money :)
