New Ones For The Jazz Collector Price Guide
Jan 5, 2010 Impulse, Jazz Vinyl, Jazz Vinyl on eBay, Prestige, Savoy
Here is some more jazz vinyl that will go into the Jazz Collector Price Guide:
When did this become a $100 record: Barney Kessel, The Poll Winners, Stereo 7010? This was an original pressing with the black label. The vinyl was in M- condition and the cover was VG++. The final price was $97, so it wasn’t officially a $100 record. Still, I had no idea that Kessel was this collectible. I’m not complaining about it, since I do have all of his records on Contemporary, just a bit surprised by this one. In any case, it will be making its first appearance in the Jazz Collector Price Guide.
Also premiering in the Jazz Collector Price Guide will be: Bill Jennings, Enough Said!, Prestige 7164. This was an original yellow label pressing with
Tags: Barney Kessel, Bill Jennings, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Wilbur Harden
Prices Fluctuate, As Always
Mar 30, 2009 Jazz Vinyl, Jazz Vinyl on eBay
In light of all the discussion about things slowing down on eBay, I’m looking for an explanation for this one: Barney Kessel, The Poll Winners, Contemporary 3535. This was an original pressing. The record was M- and the cover VG+. It sold for $79, quite a bit more than you would normally expect. Just wondering, am I missing something?
In Search of Barney Kessel Clef EP
May 13, 2004 Blue Note, Jazz Vinyl, Jazz Vinyl on eBay, Prestige
Yesterday we answered some questions from readers. Today we have a question we would like to throw out to the community and see if anyone else has the answer. We’re starting to get a little action on the forums, so if you have questions like these please put them there and we can start building a clearinghouse of information for collectors.
On to today’s question, from Pete aka “Bongo Pete the Drummer”:
“Hello. I have for years owned a 45-RPM EP on Clef Records called Introducing Barney Kessel and have never found any info on it. I also own the 10-inch LP Barney Kessel Volume 1 on Contemporary, which mentions in the liner notes that it is Barney’s first album – but that’s what it says on the back of the Clef 45. I know Barney just passed away on the 6th of this month. Do you know anything about this Clef EP?
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Tags: Art Blakey, Barney Kessel, Chet Baker, Contemporary, Dan Axelrod, Fontana, Jazz Collector Questions, Jazz Quotes, Limelight, Ronnie Scott, Zoot Sims
Jazz Collector, Ahem, “The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Read”
May 6, 2004 Autographs, Jazz Memoirs
Today we turn things over to some readers. We appreciate all of your letters and the great support we’re already getting from the community after just two weeks. If you sent us a note and we haven’t replied, it’s just because we’re a little overwhelmed right now. Here are some of the things our readers have shared with us:
“It’s great to read your newsletter. I feel the same way about my father as you do about being introduced to jazz. I was hearing jazz at my house as a kid way before I migrated to my generation’s rock music. I eventually came back to jazz I my 20s and have stayed there since.
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Tags: Barney Kessel, Gene Ammons, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery
