A Piece of Silver, A Tuba and Two Guitars
Here’s some of the jazz vinyl we’re watching on eBay, starting with: Horace Silver Quintet, Blue Note 5058. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing that looks to be in M- condition for both the record and the cover. We’ve seen this one sell for as much as $537 in worse condition in the Jazz Collector Price Guide. This one has a start price of $99 and it also has a reserve. So far there are no bidders and there are only two days to go. I imagine someone will take a chance on this great record, but who knows.
Never figured out why there wasn’t more of a market for this one: Ray Draper Quintet Featuring John Coltrane, New Jazz 8228. This is a nice record, with Coltrane doing Sonny Rollins’ Paul’s Pal, which appears on Tenor Madness, which also features Coltrane. Perhaps it’s the idea of a tuba player as the lead artist. This one is an original pressing and it is listed in M- condition for the record and the cover. The current price is $111 and there’s only one bidder.
Kenny Burrell and Jimmy Raney, Two Guitars, Prestige 7119. This is an original New York yellow label and it looks to be in VG++ condition for both the record and the vinyl. Wouldn’t mind having a copy of this one, but the price is already out of my range at $292.
One of my favourite Jackie Mclean records is Prestige 7078 introducing Ray Draper. Grat tuba playing by Ray on this one. Recently got an nm copy of the original NY pressing.
Rudolf:
I vaguely recall that you mentioned something about certain early 7100 Prestige’s with W50 NYC addresses being relatively rare. This makes sense as the NJ labels came out in 7141 or so (so most 2nd or 3rd pressings of those orginally issued just prior to the switch would be NJ not W50). Are there some of those that are more rare than others / deserve a special effort to find? Thanks in advance!
BigBear: Prestige changed the adress with 7141. So all the pre-7141 catalogue numbers had the NYC upon their initial release. Only a minority was re-issued in a second pressing, i.e. the albums that were most in demand (Rollins, Miles, MJQ, Coltrane), like 7079, 7109, 7076, 7057, 7006, 7007, 7014, 7038. The first re-issue would be on the yellow/black stars label, but NJ adress. Further re-issues would be on the blue trident label with the NJ adress (7129, 7094, 7057, 7043).
Variations do exist: sleeve with NYC adress, but labels NJ.Or one side NYC label,other side NJ.
In my opinion yellow NJ issues are very collectible, and often to be got at decent prices.
Rudolf the last yellow NJ label was PRLP number ….?
Not Rudolf but I believe the last NJ yellow label was 7320.
Thank you Aaron
Jan/Aaron: the last yellow label Prestige in my collection is Coltrane’s Black Pearls 7316. Aaron may be right, I really don’t know.
I’ve been able to confirm that the NJ yellow label was used up to 7319 Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds but not 100% sure if it extended to 7320.