A Prestige Pair & One For The $1,000 Bin
Aug 7, 2010 $1000 Records, Prestige
Here are a few more jazz vinyl odds and ends we’ve been watching on eBay:
Let’s start with a couple more Prestiges. Frank Foster, Hope Meets Foster, Prestige 7021. This looks to be an original pressing with the New York address and the deep groove. It was listed in M- condition for the record and the cover looked to be VG+ or VG++. The price was $548.78, which is a nice price but in this market I would have thought it might have sold for even more. If that Prestige sold for less than expected, this one got top dollar, based on what we’ve previously seen for this record in the Jazz Collector Price Guide:
Booker Ervin, The Song Book, Prestige 7318. This was an original yellow-label pressing. Mike asks in a previous post if this is original and it is. He also asks when Prestige stopped using deep grooves, and I don’t know the answer. Anyone? I’ve seen yellow labels on Prestiges into the mid-7220s, so this was the tail end of the yellow label series. Anyway, this one was in M- condition for the record and cover and sold for $696. Some of our readers theorize that when we call attention to a record, it can inflate the price. Seeing this and seeing how the traffic to Jazz Collector has been growing so quickly, I’m tending to see the logic.
Finally, here’s another for the $1,000 bin: Lawrence Marable, Tenorman, Jazz West 8. A little surprising that this got such a high price, only because of the condition: The record was VG+, the cover was just VG. The price was $1,238.02.
Tags: Booker Ervin, Elmo Hope, Frank Foster, Jazz Records, Jazz Vinyl, Lawrence Marable
August 7th, 2010 at 9:51 am
my last yellow/back Prestige album is 7316 – Coltrane. Was surprised that 7318 is still yellow. It may be the very last.
August 7th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Al,the one thing I don’t understand:How can a seller list one of the rarest lps on which Sonny Clark appears without putting his name at least ONCE in the heading/listing? Seems a no-brainer to me..
August 7th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Ceedee — not to mention that he’s spelled Sonny Clarke. I agree. I often look for records like that, where there’s an important sideman not mentioned in the listing. Sonny Clark with Buddy DeFranco or Frank Rosolino, for example.
August 7th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Rudolf — I think I’ve gone as high as 7323, a Jack McDuff record, much as I hate to admit it.
August 9th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Al – if you ever want to unload those McDuffs, keep me in mind.
August 11th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Hey, Jason. I’m up in the Berkshires now. When I get home I’ll see what, if anything, I have left.
August 16th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
In regards to Ervin Booker, I have “The Freedom Book” Prestige 7295. Yellow label, 1964. Along with that is “The Blues Book”, 1964 Prestige 7340 with a blue label…and “The In Between, BST 84283 Blue Note. Does that help anyone with additonal info, zi really don’t know.