Melbourne Marvels

Jazzman Gerald

Jazzman, Funk45, London

Time to take a walk in the stacks with criminally addicted funk, jazz, Latin and soul junkie Jazzman Gerald. Gerald slowly worked his way up the collector food chain by buying and selling until lo, the baby plankton became a whale, and this Jazzman ended up dealing tunes to some of the world's most serious break-hunters - from Pete Rock to your friend and mine, P.M. Dawn. Who decides how much a record is worth? God, the minions in the back room at eBay, them fellas in ill-fitting trousers who hang out at record fairs? Because, we've been listening to our gut feelings since we was 14 years-old, and we've come to the conclusion that our guts have shit for brains. Thankfully, Gerald's estimates take into account how good the song is, as well as how rare, and he does find it sad if people buy that 45 just to show it off to their friends (even all ten of their friends who they know from this one forum?). And he doesn't feel a need to hole up in a giant igloo built from black wax - keeping a carefully culled selection at his fingertips of, oh, 5000 or so. Nothing too crazy...