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Buying and selling quality new and used vinyl in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood for over 21 years!
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Jive Time Records proudly celebrates its sixteenth year as Seattle’s premiere used and new vinyl destination. After more than a decade our mission remains the same: to make shopping for music as much fun as listening to it! From classic rock, soul and jazz to the most obscure corners of the underground, you'll find it all at Jive Time. We're open to buy, sell, and trade quality used records, CDs,

DVDs and tapes seven days a week. We're located in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood just two blocks north of the Fremont bridge.

09/02/2026

Members of the Brunswick Records house band, Chicago jazz musicians Eldee Young and Isaac “Redd” Holt are best known for their joyous, self-explanatory 1968 hit “Soulful Strut.” Both played with keyboardist Ramsey Lewis for many years and contributed to the leader’s Grammy-winning 1965 LP, The In Crowd. Like Lewis, bassist/cellist/vocalist Young and drummer Holt are excellent soul-jazz players who could snazzily and ingeniously interpret R&B, funk and rock hits of their day, mostly sans singers.

The Young-Holt Unlimited's 1967 LP The Beat Goes On is split between originals and covers, and, paradoxically, it's on the latter where the band's at their most inventive. You will never hear "Good Vibrations" or Sonny & Cher's most famous hit the same again. Read critic Buckley Mayfield's review of The Beat Goes On on our blog. Link in comments.

08/23/2026

In light of the July passing of Jeff "Monoman" Conolly, it seems like an opportune time to review his band Lyres' killer 1984 debut LP, On Fyre. The ’80s were boom times for ’60s garage-rock revivalists, but it’s doubtful any group replicated that bygone era’s steez with more conviction than Lyres. Singer/songwriter/keyboardist Conolly and his Boston band mates lived, breathed, and bled this stuff. Divided between originals and covers of mostly obscure garage nuggets (plus TWO Kinks gems), On Fyre abounds with combustible and soulful tunes. Read critic Buckley Mayfield's review of it on our blog. Link in comments.

08/15/2026

Blandly classified on the front cover as “An Electronic Instrumental Composition,” Lou Reed's 1975 LP Metal Machine Music can be viewed as a soliloquy of nihilism and a sonic middle finger extended to RCA Records. It’s more punk than any canonical or cult-fave punk record, even though it surfaced a year before punk arose as a codified genre. Or, MMM can be construed as perhaps the most abrasive ambient album ever. The album’s ability to elude easy categorization is one of its strengths. Critic Buckley Mayfield reviews the late Velvet Underground front man's most divisive record on our blog. Link in comments.

08/07/2026

Listeners who write off post-Forever Changes Love miss out on some amazing songs. The LA band’s sixth album, 1970's False Start, is a case in point. With the original Love lineup long gone, main songwriter Arthur Lee ventured into harder rock territory, but without sacrificing his acute ear for memorable melodies and talent for emotive singing. Plus, there's a dazzling Jimi Hendrix collab, as well as our critic Buckley Mayfield's favorite song in the world right now. Read his review of this dark horse in Love's catalog on our blog. Link in comments.

07/30/2026

After blueprinting the minimalist funk style that triggered hundreds of hip-hop samples on their self-titled 1969 debut album, New Orleans foursome the Meters laid down a heavier, busier brand of funk five years later on their consensus late-career peak, Rejuvenation. Produced by the sainted Allen Toussaint, Rejuvenation finds the Meters refining and beefing up their funk to the more stringent demands of mid-’70s ears and butts. On our blog, critic Buckley Mayfield works up a sweat reviewing the Meters' last great album. Link in comments.

07/22/2026

The fantastic London group the Action seemed poised for stardom in the mid ’60s. They had the Fifth Beatle, George Martin, in their corner, producing five of their singles, which fused Motown soul with jittery mod moves. Unfortunately, none of those 45s hit. Shifting with the times in 1967, the Action cut some demos that reflected their mastery of psychedelia. Despite the outstanding quality of the 14 songs recorded in ’67 and ’68 for Brain (later retitled Rolled Gold), they remained unreleased until the mid ’90s, whereupon critics justifiably flipped over their indelible melodies and emotional depth. On our blog, critic Buckley Mayfield argues that it’s long past time that the Action received acclaim matching that of Britain’s most important '60s rock groups. Click the link in comments to read the review.

07/14/2026

Mahavishnu Orchestra drummer Billy Cobham’s Spectrum is one of the greatest debut solo albums ever. It peaked at #26 on the Billboard albums chart, which tells you how sophisticated listening audiences were in 1973-74. Besides featuring the ultimate fusion burner in "Quadrant 4," Spectrum has been a gold mine of samples for hip-hop and electronic artists. The LP also debunks the common belief that fusion isn't sexy. Critic Buckley Mayfield reviews the estimable Mr. Cobham's solo peak on our blog. Link in comments.

07/05/2026

As a keyboardist and composer, Harold Budd had one of the nicest soft touches in music. Odd, because Budd’s origins lie in bebop and he played drums in an Army band with free-jazz titan Albert Ayler. Gradually, though, Budd gravitated to the minimalist, pacific approach that drew him into Brian Eno and Gavin Bryars’ orbit of ambient geniuses. The rest is tranquil sonic history.

Budd's second LP, 1978's The Pavilion Of Dreams, was produced by Eno, and it shows. Marked by the 18-minute opus, “Bismillahi ‘Rrahman ‘Rrahim,” featuring the excellent jazz saxophonist Marion Brown, it's a gorgeous pinnacle of Budd's estimable career. Read critic Buckley Mayfield's review of this jazz-ambient landmark on our blog. Link in comments.

06/28/2026

Afrique were a one-and-done instrumental super group of session cats whose sole album is a mildly eclectic funk classic that’s become a sample gold mine. The band’s best-known names are Chuck Rainey (bass), King Errisson (percussion), Paul Humphrey (percussion), and David T. Walker (guitar). Side 1’s full of excellent interpretations of R&B, pop, funk, and African tunes of varying notoriety. On side 2, the band bust out some incredibly funky, party-starting jams. Critic Buckley Mayfield reviews this unjustly obscure, crate-digger's classic on our blog. Link in comments.

06/15/2026

If you think you *really* know master drummer Ginger Baker, listening to Horses And Trees (1986) may change your impression of his music. Produced by Bill Laswell, Horses And Trees sounds more like a 1980s Laswell joint than it does anything by Cream, Blind Faith, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, or his collabs with Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. And that’s more than okay, because the NYC bassist and producer enlisted some amazing players—including Bernie Worrell and Naná Vasconcelos—to help Baker create a hard-to-classify global beatfest. Critic Buckley Mayfield reviews this riveting anomaly on our blog. Link in comments.

Address

3506 Fremont Avenue N
Seattle, WA
98103

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 6pm
Tuesday	11am - 6pm
Wednesday	11am - 6pm
Thursday	11am - 6pm
Friday	11am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 6pm
Sunday	11am - 6pm

Telephone

+12066325483

Website

http://www.jivetimerecords.com/

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