Most serious jazzheads would think nothing of hours spent crate-digging at flea markets and scouring dusty record store bins. Risking hunched shoulders and sore backs in the quest for rare grooves and obscure jazz on vinyl (or CD) is a big part of the music-collecting experience. But what about casual fans who don’t want to incur huge medical bills and bad posture just to build up a decent jazz library at home?

There has to be an easier way to source for the good, funky stuff other than succumbing to illegal downloads (which isn’t too cool). It’s time the jazz genre and its related offshoots got an extensive budget CD series. Enter the Verve Jazz Club, which is a keeper of a campaign with over 70 titles traversing the highways and byways of the label’s vast catalogue.