I spent a huge amount of Thursday evenings (and a huge amount of my salary) in the Jazz CD Department in the 80s/90s/2000s - which was then upstairs - receiving a lot of great information and advice from a chap called Rob/Robert. Looking back at my collection now, I have remarkably few 'duds', which was entirely down to him - he was always trying to push me into less 'safe' jazz areas and steer me away from 'honking' tenor players for whom he had no time. It was a perfectly symbiotic relationship - I always left with 3 or 4 CDs on Thursday evenings which boosted the shops numbers a bit, and I ended up with an excellently curated jazz CD collection.
I lost touch with Robert after I left Newcastle College which I regret and wondered if you had any information as to his whereabouts. Andrew Pidd
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Hi Andy, although I knew Robert and shared much of his taste in jazz I didn't know much about him away from the shop. Hopefully someone else will pick up on this post.
Like yourself Andy, I was a regular visitor to Windows and always enjoyed chatting with Robert in the record/CD dept. He was a very knowlegable jazz fan who I could always rely on to suggest listening to different jazz players once he got to know your regular listening habits. Although he was obviously a salesman, he would never give you the hard sell approach and he would happily put tracks on in the shop, a sort of try before you buy. This was the pre-internet times. I know that he left Windows but it is unclear why, and like you, I lost contact with him. Someone out there must have some more information.
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