Catching Up on A Couple of Jazz Vinyl Rarities
Hey, everyone. Checking in from vacation. Just spent three lovely days in Creede, Colorado, and I’m now in sunny San Diego, where, apparently, there is an excellent record store I should be checking out. And perhaps I will. In the meanwhile, I’m sneaking in some time to take a look at my eBay watch list and see what I’ve been missing. BTW, I am not here for the Comic-Con convention. One crazy obsession is enough for one lifetime.
Sonny Rollins Plays, Period 1204. This was an original deep-groove pressing listed in M- condition for the record and the cover, although the cover seemed slightly less to me. I’d love to own this record someday. Hard to imagine that it’s eluded me for more than 40 years, but that’s part of the joy of collecting, isn’t it: To always have something to look forward to. This one sold for $1,136.11.
Unissued Dizzy Gillespie on Four Acetates. This was the one being sold by The Jazz Record Center, from a pair of concerts at Cornell University in 1947 and 1948. I had toyed with the idea of purchasing them, digitizing them and making them public on Jazz Collector, but then I got involved with other stuff and lost track. They wound up selling for $795. I might have gone that high. Let’s see if the buyer has any plans for them. Buyer — are you a Jazz Collector reader?
i would LOOVVVEEE to hear those dizzy recordings. i love his 40’s playing. so much bang and pop.
i would love to know.. the name of the excellent record store down in Dago… btw.. thank you for all you do!
I provided the covering bid on those Dizzy acetates … I planned to share them with Jazz Collector community, but …
Well, Gandi, pray tell us more! You planned to share the recordings with the Jazz Collector community, but… But what? 😉
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Now you made us all verrrrry curious!
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Oh and please don’t say that the acetates broke!
hi Mattyman, cover bid means second highest bid … so I established the final selling price and did not win it 🙁
Whoever won, I hope the records won’t break during transport…
Oh Lord… Now we may never know who won them. Too bad, Gandi, but thanks for your reply – I didn’t know what ‘cover bid’ stood for; you learn something new every day 😉
Anyone see the oil painting by Jutta Hipp on ebay? Can’t be too many of those around…
Interesting.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Jutta-Hipp-Original-Oil-On-Canvas-Board-OOCB-Coney-Island-New-York-City-Painting-/380883101435?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item58ae66e6fb
I am starting to worry about Al’s silence. Will someone check the storage rooms of those San Diego record shops? He may be trapped beneath a pile of Al Hirt & Herb Albert records in his search for a Blue Note holy grail!
Hahaha totally.