The $1,000 Bin: Who’s There Most Often?
We don’t claim that the Jazz Collector Price Guide is definitive. We update it when we can and we certainly miss many records, and sometimes go weeks without an update. We are still pretty much a one-man band around here. But the Price Guide is ours and we can play with it as we will. So today, with a little time between appointments, we decided to look through our $1,000 bin to see which artists had the most different records on the list. Not different instances of the same record — even if Tommy Flanagan Overseas were to appear 12 times, that would just count as one instance for Tommy Flanagan — but the most different records. There was one artist that led the pack with six records; two more had five, and three more had four. We will give you some time to guess before providing the answers. You can also do what we did which was click on the Price Guide and look it up. You may even find some things that we missed.
I must shamefully admit that I never consult the price guide. I am just not tempted, but I would guess the musicians with the highest numbers have names starting with Mo…..
The Sims album on Guilde de Jazz is something very special. I bought mine in the 60-ies for one guilder. The guy who sold them had a bunch of 10, I should have bought them all. They were all stone mint.
The $1,000 bin is overly saturated with mediocre albums. With that editorial being stated, the two musicians with the greatest number must be the “Middleweight Champion” the great Hank Mobley and with at least 6 Mobley’s frequent Blue Noter none other than Lee Morgan. Those two in tandem must be on the top. Enough said.