A Few More For the $1,000 (and $2,000) Bin(s)
This one has been breaking the $1,000 barrier pretty consistently: Louis Smith, Smithville, Blue Note 1594. This copy seemed to be in VG+ condition for the record and VG condition for the vinyl, based on the seller’s description. Still, it sold for $1,148.
Jazz Record Center had a few more in the $2,000 bin, including: Tommy Flanagan Overseas, Prestige 7134. This one was in beautiful M- condition and sold for $2,650.07. One of the nice things Fred often does in the listings is provide little details that help to expand our knowledge of the market. In this case the little tidbit is that there is no address on the cover because Prestige at the time was transitioning from New York to New Jersey.
There were also the Donald Byrd LPs on Transition: Donald Byrd, Byrd Jazz, Transition 5. This was an original pressing in M- condition with the booklet. How many of these would you expect to see? This one sold for $2,555.55. Donald Byrd, Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill, Transition 17. This was also in M- condition, with the booklet. It sold for $,2606.55.
Hi,
I think that I found the rarest jazz record ever on ebay and I want to share this with you.
This must be the record that Fred Cohen mentions in an interview given for the book jazz covers by Joaquim Paulo.He talks about a private Dorham pressing recorded in New York in the sixties and that he only knows that it exists, but that he never saw an actually copy of this.
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290419983385&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
Please correct me when I am wrong.
I checked the absence of an adress on the back of Prestige covers:
7133: no adress; NYC on label
7134: no adress; NYC on label
7135: ditto
7136: NYC adress on back cover and labels.
7137: NYC adress on back cover and labels
7138: no adress; NYC on label
So the transitioning theory is not necessarily right, but there may be a link with the forthcoming transfer of the company’s seat. We will never know.
I continue my research:
7139: I have a N.J. copy with N.J. adress on back and label
7140: 1st issue. NYC adress on back and on labels
7141: I sold my 2nd issue, N.J.
7142: 1st issue. N.J. adress on back and labels.
We may assume that the last NYC version was either 7140 (Dorothy Ashby) or 7141 (E.L. Davis).
With Soultrane – PrLp 7142 started the Bergenfield era.
My 7141 is a New York address on the label and no address on the cover. My assumption is 7141, Lockjaw Davis Cookbook, is the last one with the NY address on the label.
Jan –I think this is it. I’ve heard about this record for years, but have never seen a copy. –al
Al: interesting info, I’ll make a note of that in my “the Prestige Book” (Discography of all series), Jazz Critique 1996 No. 3.
This guide was issued in Tokyo and is very useful. The same exists for Blue Note and Riverside records.
There is a Jazz Critique guide book for Bethlehem as well.
Doug: that is interesting. I got my 3 guides through a German supplier some 10 yeras ago. Was not aware of the Bethlehem one. When was this one published?
It appears there is a second issue of the Blue Note guide, the first issue of which dates from 1987.
The problem with these guides is that the text contributions are all in Japanese. But in terms of sleeves, recorded titles and recording dates they are of great value.
I prefer them to the Ruppli discograpies, even if the latter are more professional.
hello, Jan, i forwarded the link of the record to Fred Cohen. He confired me that it is this record !!
Hi Rudolf: the Bethlehem book was published around 2000. I picked it up along with the Blue Note (second issue), Prestige and Riverside guides around that time from Dusty Groove. All four are invaluable resources. But I have always wondered what info is contained in the write-ups.
thanks Doug!