More Blue Notes For The $1,000 Bin
Good that we mentioned those Blue Note tips yesterday: There are a few more original pressings that shall be entering and re-entering the $1,000 bin. Here they are:
Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan, Peckin’ Time, Blue Note 1574. This is an original pressing and the vinyl is in M- condition. The cover is at least VG++. The price is already around $1,600 with many more hours left before it closes today, so we may be seeing an addition to the $2,000 bin.
Also, Tina Brooks, True Blue, Blue Note 4041. This is an original pressing. Again, the vinyl is listed in M- condition and the cover is VG+. This one has more than a day to go before it closes and
the price already at $1,275. We”ve seen True Blue sell for more than $2,000 in the past, according to what we’ve posted in the Jazz Collector Price Guide, so don’t be surprised if this one also enters that rarified air.
Any educated guesses on how many True Blue’s there are out there?
I’m curious about scarcity too. I mean, it seems that JC has logged a half dozen of so True Blues in the last year – all VG or better. Which makes me wonder how many are in worse condition, and how many are not being sold, and how many are buried in collections – like those I get word of here – that exceed the memory of their owners.
Is ebay distorting things – making the world so small that the ratio of existing copies to ones that turn up is very high?
Ultimately rarity is not the issue though is it? I have some private press novelties that surely didn’t print more than 500 copies. And of course they’re worthless, because nobody wants a family of gospel singers from South Western Ontario, or a high school band doing Simon and Garfunkel covers.
What I find staggering is that when these 4041’s come up each one sells for $1000+, even $1500+… who are these people? Who has that kind of money to spend on a single record?