A New Adventure in Jazz Collecting
Sometime over the next few weeks the seller Carolina Soul Records will be running an eBay auction that will include many really, really nice original jazz collectibles. These will include a beautiful copy of Jutta Hipp With Zoot Sims, Blue Note 1530, along with nice copies of the other 12-inch Jutta Hipp Blue Notes; a really nice original New York pressing of Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus, as well as Blue Note 1542, 1558 and 1581; a West 63rd copy of John Coltrane, Blue Train, Blue Note 1557, plus more than a dozen additional original Tranes; a bunch of Miles originals; Donald Byrd Blows Beacon Hill on Transition, Kenny Dorham Blue Note, Lou Donaldson Blue Note. I could go on.
How do I know so much about this upcoming auction?
These are records from my collection.
The Jutta and Zoot record I got when I purchased the Bruce M. West collection in Baltimore from November 2013. The Saxophone Colossus and Donald Byrd on Transition came from the same collection. They are, for the most part, pristine, with just the ink marker for the date on the back corner of the cover. Cannonball Adderley Somethin’ Else, Blue Train and many of the others, including many of the Miles, came from the Irving Kalus collection from July 2012.
Many of these records are duplicates from my collection, specifically all of the Rollins, Coltrane, Miles, Clifford Brown, Cannonball Adderley, etc. But some, such as the Jutta Hipps, are not.
Why am I doing this? Why did I choose to partner with Carolina Soul? How did I decide what to sell and what to not sell? What does this mean, if anything, for Jazz Collector? The answers to these and other questions will all be answered over the next few days, in the serial tradition of these Adventures in Jazz Collecting. Stay tuned.
Their consignment payout is supposedly very favorable.
I suppose we all must realize at some point that we can’t take this stuff with us and if the financial incentive is there, might as well “trim the garden” as the saying goes…
Having tens of thousands of records requires this process occasionally. Just don’t buy a boat with the proceeds!
Looking forward to learning more about Carolina Soul auctions and the consignment experience. They have become a leader on Ebay. I’m about ready to part with approx. 1000 vintage LP’s. Soon I expect to contact them about the organizational aspects of auctioning off my records. And I will certainly take a gander at upcoming listings in weeks ahead.
Carolinasoul is excellent. I helped catalog a collection for a wife of a man who was in the record store business for over four decades and out of the four dealers we contacted CS responded the quickest, was the most enthusiastic and had the best consignment deal. It was the Morgan Usadel collection ( they printed a header explaining the collection written by jazz writer and friend Mark Stryker) and closed on 4/3.
Clifford — great memory to recall the story of my boat sinking. Every time I see Jackie’s Pal or Elmo Hope with Frank Foster on Blue Note, I cringe with regret. I hope that is not a harbinger of what is coming my way in the next few weeks.
Well Al, for me, having no records at all is a delightful state of being. Perhaps you’re having a similar epiphany? Regardless, I’ll be waiting for the serials to begin.
Generally, if I see 30 watchers for an auction, I just shuffle along. These will be fun to put onto my watch list and just sit back. Good luck!
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