For the $2,000 Bin: Dexter Gordon, True Blue (Again)
A few of the items we’ve been watching have broken the $1,000 barrier, and a few of those have broken the $2,000 barrier.
Dexter Gordon, Dexter Blows Hot and Cool, Dootone 207. This was an original pressing with the red vinyl. The record was listed as M- and the cover was VG++. It was sold by the seller herschel78, who’s been selling quite a bit of rare jazz vinyl and scoring some nice prices with them. This one sold for $2,886. Our previous high for this in the Jazz Collector Price Guide was more than $3,000, so that’s not even a record. We were also watching a later pressing of this record on the Authentic label (which, unfortunately, is the version we own in our collection). Even this one did fairly well, selling for $70, although we’ll never know if the buyer thought he was getting an original.
Also for the $2,000 bin was this one:
Tina Brooks, True Blue, Blue Note 4041. This was an original pressing with the vinyl listed as M- and the cover listed as VG+. It sold for $2,220. There’s some interesting comments on this album in some of the earlier posts, so you may want to take a peak at Hot Topics on the top of the menu above.
The price on the Dexter Gordon may be a record as the seller Herchel78 noted that he sold the same copy in early August but it was returned by the buyer because the cover had been expertly repaired.