As seen on his twice weekly Happy Hour Record Club Instagram Live. When New York issued its stay-at-home order, comedian Wyatt Cenac ? onetime Daily Show correspondent and the host of Problem Areas on HBO for two years ? decided it was a good time to organize his music collection, which is extensive, mostly jazz, and entirely vinyl. The collection is the product of a yearslong habit: When he travels, he usually dips into a local vinyl emporium to buy something. He estimates his collection of jazz albums is in the high hundreds, probably not more than a thousand, but it may get there soon.
?Because I?m at home and I have a lot of downtime, I find myself looking online on Discogs and buying records that I maybe don?t need to be buying,? Cenac says. After searching for Skull Session, a 1975 album from the jazz composer Oliver Nelson, he finally found a copy from a dealer in Japan. ?I feel like it?s the sign of a problem going across international waters to have a record shipped to me. It?s sort of like: The shipping costs about as much as the record, so why don?t I buy five more records" So that?s where it gets dangerous.?
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Now you can listen to Cenac?s music ? and hear him worry aloud about having bought too much music ? from the comfort of your home via Instagram. ?Some of it is stuff I was seeking out, some just had weird cove...