An Interesting Trio of Rare Jazz Vinyl
Here’s some more rare jazz vinyl we’ve been watching on eBay, starting with: Thad Jones, Debut 127. This looks to be an original 12-inch LP, which looks to me like a combination of his 10-inch LP with Mingus and another 10-inch LP, also on Debut? Don’t have this particular record, so I’m not sure. Someone will know, i.e., Rudolf. Anyway, this one was listed in VG+ condition for the cover and Ex for the record, which is probably VG+ as well. It sold for $258.
Benny Golson seems to be more popular as a collectible artist than he ever was as a jazz artist, if you know what I mean: Benny Golson, Groovin’ With Golson, New Jazz 8220. This was an original pressing in M- condition for the record and the cover. It sold for $310.
Here’s a record that’s not only unplayed, it is actually in a virgin state: Lou Donaldson, Lou Takes Off, Blue Note 1591. It sold for $511.01.
Debut 127 with the strange star label is a re-issue of of two ten-inchers:
Debut DLP-12, the quintet with Frank Wess and DLP-17 Jazz Collaborations vol 1, Thad Jones and Charles Mingus (qrt with Roach).
DLP 127 was later re-issued by Fantasy.
The Lou Donaldson is another unplayed gem that the seller describes as an “archive copy from the collection of a music industry official”, just like with the other beauties he sold so far. -I’m always intrigued by stuff like that. It makes you curious who that music industry official might be… 😉
some five years ago I bought a series of brand new original pressings on the Danish Metronome label from the estate of a deceased manager of Philips in Eindhoven. Gorgeous stuff.
It’s a small world… I live about an hour driving away from Eindhoven! I wonder how you got in touch with him 😉
not Frits Phillips??
the seller representing the estate was Dutch, he sold through EBay.
Mattyman, wherever you are, in Cologne, Antwerp or Utrecht, please give your views on these GIXEN sniper people, since on two snipes I had one failure. Can I trust them to do a good job?
Well, Rudolf, I have to say that I have had absolutely no problem with Gixen. All snipes that I put in lead to a won auction for me; I only lost when other ‘snipers’ simply outbid me when they had set a much higher amount. I went beyond the free Gixen account and paid 6 dollars (for a year, so it’s nothing) so that I could use the extra options of setting the snipe time to 6 seconds on their regular server and 3 seconds on their mirror server. They also have a very good forum on the site that answers all your questions and the owner of the site is a very dedicated person as well, usually very fast with his replies. At the end of the day I think it’s all about what each of us prefers personally, as I know that there are many other sniper services. Maybe we should ask the other JazzCollector ‘snipers’ for their comments if they use something else, so that you can decide what would be best for you. I for one rely on Gixen 😉
I am an eSnipe user and have been very happy. It is the only sniper service I have used, however, so I cannot make any relative comments vs others.
many thanks Mattyman.
You’re welcome, Rudolf. Let’s hope there’ll be some more comments on this issue; we already have BigBear’s addition to the sniping thing 😉