In de negende editie van The Penguin guide to jazz recordings (1646 p./2008) worden 200 albums apart genoemd onder de noemer Core collection.

Dit gerenommeerde naslagwerk verschijnt sinds 1992 om de twee jaren. Er worden duizenden en duizenden cd's op een rijtje gezet. Elke titel krijgt een tot vier sterren.

**** Very fine: an outstanding record that yields consistent pleasure and is
a notable example of the artists's work

Tweehonderd van deze cd's worden extra naar voren gehaald onder de noemer
Core collection. Die treft u hieronder aan.

Crown
Daarnaast worden nog enkele andere cd's naar voren gehaald

In a very few cases we have chosen to award a special token of merit. It takes the form
of a crown. This is to denote records we feel a special adminraion of affection for:
a purely personal choice, which we hope our readers will deem as such.
We hope our readers will indulge this whim (aldus samensteller Brian Morton)

(HvD, woensdag 20 januari 2010)

Across town, Meera, who taught literature, had a different ritual. She waited for official releases, for the joy of high-quality frames and the small pride of supporting regional creators. She posted long notes about cultural nuance and the craft of language in the series, coaxing her students to look beyond plot twists to the social textures the show rendered. For her, the heart of the matter was preservation: artistry deserved fair recompense, and creators needed the scaffolding good distribution provided.

Outside of homes, in the anonymous expanse of internet forums and comment threads, a parallel geography took root. Someone uploaded rips and compressed backups, labeled with enticing tags: "download," "720p," "best top." Threads bloomed with guides on where to find files, how to patch subtitles, which torrents were fastest. In the debates that followed, voices fractured into familiar camps. One side framed the downloads as liberation — access for those with capped data, for migrants far from Maharashtra who craved a slice of home. The other framed it as theft — a siphon that might dry up the river of regional content before it could widen.

When news first leaked that Planet Marathi had birthed a gritty new web series, the city hummed with a peculiar excitement — not the glossy kind reserved for star-studded premieres, but the low, electric buzz of discovery. In chawls and cafes, on college campuses and in late-night tea stalls, people traded episode theories and favorite lines. The series felt like a secret passed hand to hand: local, urgent, and alive.

Ravi, a twenty-eight-year-old editorial assistant, watched the first episode on a cramped phone screen while riding the last bus home. The storytelling snagged him — honest dialogue, narrow alleys pictured with luminous care, and characters who felt scanned from the neighbourhood ledger. He wanted to tell everyone, to sit his parents down and point out where the soundtrack pinched a chord he loved. But at home, data was a luxury; streaming more than one episode would eat into weeks of internet. A friend mentioned "Filmyzilla" in a shrug — an easy download, no buffering, an answer to slow Wi‑Fi and impatience. Ravi hesitated, then tapped the link.

On a rainy evening, Ravi discovered he could afford a streaming subscription. He cancelled the pirated copy and watched the series again, this time noticing details he had missed on the small screen — the rust on a rail, a background billboard that winked an inside joke, the composer’s full palette. He felt the satisfaction of contributing something, however small, back into the ecosystem that made the show possible. Meera cheered his move with a private message, and he replied with a thought that had been fermenting: the boundaries between right and convenient were not clean; understanding and change required both empathy and accountability.

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