A Love Supreme, Woodlore and a Dash of Vinyl Envy
Watching this item on eBay:John Coltrane, A Love Supreme, Impulse A-77. This is an original mono pressing with the white promotional label. You don’t see too many of these. Thus one is listed in VG++ condition for the record and VG+ for the cover. The bidding is in the $900 range with more than three days left on the auction. We have seen a promo copy of A Love Supreme sell for as much as $1,358, according to Popsike, and it would not be surprising to see this record fall somewhere in that range as well. This listing is one of many nice items from the seller Carolina Soul, now and over the past few weeks.
We also have our eyes on Phil Woods, Woodlore, Prestige 7018. This looks to be an original New York yellow label pressing, listed in VG condition for the record and the cover. The price is about $80, so it might be worth a risk to fill in a gap in the Jazz Collector collection. Last week the same seller sold a slightly nicer VG+ version of the same record for $460. He must have bought some nice collection to have two copies of Woodlore, right? And while, we’re on the subject, here’s yet another copy of Woodlore on eBay. This one is in M- condition for the record and VG for the cover. The start price is $300 and so far there are no bidders. It seems like the Vinyl Gods may be having some fun at my expense this week, throwing all of these temptations my way.
The seller of that last Woods record, Bearlbebop, has also been active the past few weeks and has some other nice records for sale, including this one straight off my wish list: Walter Davis Jr., Davis Cup, Blue Note 4018. This looks to be an original West 63rdStreet pressing that looks to be in VG++ condition for the record and perhaps the same for the cover. The start price is $600.
Two posts and zero comments. I thought everyone had abandoned me. Turns out I had abandoned you — the comments weren’t working and I didn’t realize it and no one told me until our friend Japhy sent me an email earlier today. If you can read this, then the problem should be fixed. If not. . . .
Al,
Thanks so much for highlighting my couple of jazz record auctions on eBay, I am very satisfied with the overall results, which you probably contributed to by mention of the auctions. BTW, I have a couple of Monterey Jazz Festival tickets, last weekend of Sept., available for purchase if anyone is interested?
it works
$449 on that VG Phil Woods with a mild warp – wow!
Quick story: Probably 15 or so years ago, my uncle, a former entertainment industry attorney who had repped Phil Woods, Donald Byrd, Max Roach & Abby Lincoln and other Jazz musicians back in the 1970s, put me in email contact with Woods. I was taking a shot in the dark to see if there was a snowball’s chance in hell that Phil might be interested in parting with his record collection, if he still had one. He responded very kindly, remembered by uncle, said that timing is everything and that — he had just recently donated his collection to the Al Cohn Collection at East Stroudsburg University in PA. Tough! That, of course, did not mean that I might otherwise have been in the running for the collection in any way, shape, or form, but it sure was kind of thrilling.
Meanwhile, back to the new Blue Note “review copy” hysteria
https://www.ebay.com/itm/JUTTA-HIPP-WITH-ZOOT-SIMS-BLP1530-LEX-DG-EAR-REVGe-REVIEW-NICECOPY/193061526673?hash=item2cf35d1c91:g:N4sAAOSw5N1dWSg4
Anyway here we have a very strange review copy without kakubuchi / framed cover. The cover seems to be a second, non framed. By the looks of back it is not a later UA cover.
There’s a lot of marker pen touch-up on that “EX” cover.
I miss Jazzcollector.
I just assumed I got de-friended. Glad to see I am not alone.