See You At the Fair?

Sorry we haven’t been posting the past couple of days. We’ve been buried in our basement, cleaning and pricing records for this weekend’s WFMU Record Fair, which begins on Friday and runs through Sunday. Click here for details.  Jazz Collector has a table on Friday:  Our location is F5, if you want to stop by and visit. We had hoped to be there all weekend, but it sold out pretty early. We’ve worked one of these shows once before and it’s pretty good — definitely the best record show in the New York area. It brings out a lot of good dealers and a lot of collectors and it’s definitely worth the trip. If you’re going to come, it’s always best to get there early, when the doors open at 4 p.m. on Friday. If you know a dealer and can get in earlier than that, then it’s even better.

As many of you may know, we’ve never been a dealer, but being a collector for as long as we have — almost forty years — we’ve built up almost a second collection of duplicates, which is what we’ve been selling on eBay (as AJdoctor) and what we’re bringing to the fair tomorrow. However, we just started to dig into the collection — that Curtis Fuller record on Savoy we sold this week was from the collection — and we’re planning to put similar pieces on eBay in the next few weeks. In any case, we’ll have about 1,000 records with us tomorrow, all priced to sell because we don’t want to bring them all back home. If you come by, and you mention that you read Jazz Collector, we’ll give you a 10% discount on anything you buy from us. So good luck, and happy hunting.