Comments on: A Modern Jazz Quintet

By: Anders Wallinder

Anders Wallinder — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 09:38:25 +0000

Yes I love the Zetterlund. She considered this her best album herself.

By: ILYA

ILYA — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:05:57 +0000

I think I saw the Zetterlund go for close to 1k as far back as 20 years ago when buyers from Asia were holding the upper hand on eBay. Just another proof it’s all about mostly BN and Prestige these days.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:30:17 +0000

I think that years ago the availability of decent reissues kept prices down for some titles — this was the case when I started collecting in the 90s — but now that price check seems to have vanished.

By: gregory the fish

gregory the fish — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:58:38 +0000

I suppose I should say… there is not enough crossover to effect the market for any particular record. You may be WILLING to own the original of record X at market price, but not record Y, and so purchase a reissue of record Y and an original of record X. So your buying decisions affect the market price of originals for neither.

By: Anders Wallinder

Anders Wallinder — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 07:11:04 +0000

Justin, yes the stereos can sound very nice indeed. Many OG monos are fold down 50/50 from stereo masters. The OG minos have their exciting BN sound so I guess it’s a matter of preference.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:03:05 +0000

Like Anders, I also fit in the hybrid category, buying both kinds. I love the historical patina of original pressings, but they’re just too rare and expensive to build a complete collection without destroying my domestic happiness and credit rating. And perhaps this is blasphemy to admit, but the stereo reissues often sound closer to being there in the room than the OG monos.

By: Anders Wallinder

Anders Wallinder — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:58:12 +0000

Gregory – yes you are probably right about the crossover. However I myself are buying both kinds 😉 I love the historical OGs but also many of the audiophile editions are in stereo (which I generally like) and sound fantastic.

By: gregory the fish

gregory the fish — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:56:47 +0000

Anders – my personal ad hoc hypothesis on this is that there is no crossover between the people who would be willing to wait and shell out for an original at market price, and the people who would be very happy to listen to a clean, modern, audiophile reissue.

By: Tres Chouette

Tres Chouette — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:42:01 +0000

Have reissue campaigns ever resulted in OG prices coming down?

Prediction: The Acoustic Sounds Contemporary Records reissues will skyrocket Contemporary OGs. (DuNann, at least for a time, will be talked about more than Van Gelder on the internet audiophile forums)

Related and bolder prediction: West Coast Jazz will become very popular and collectible.

By: Anders Wallinder

Anders Wallinder — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:35:47 +0000

Yes the price – race just keeps on going! Where will it end? Also interesting enough all these Blue Note Tone Poets and Classics editions of Blue Notes does not seem to affect the pricing at all. Meaning that the demand for an original would perhaps diminish if there were good quality reissues available. The SoundQuality on these Tone Poets and Classic records is top notch. The reissues just seems to make the OGs more mythical and desirable. But then there is the factor that most reissues are stereo and most OGs are mono so maybe we collectors prefer mono OGs?