Comments on: Blue Notes and Brubeck

By: ILYA

ILYA — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:48:22 +0000

Woody, Which ones do you have?

BTW, this is exactly why I once was able to pick up a few Prestige and New Jazz white label test pressings from Jack. His Japanese clients left them behind. And yes, they were in the $20 range.

By: Woody

Woody — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:06:14 +0000

Ilya, you’re right about jazz dealers in the mid/late 90’s didn’t consider Liberty Promo monos as collectable. Jack Brown told me then it was because the Japanese dealers would pay top dollar for first pressings (more than any other collectors) but didn’t care about promo/white labels. They wanted mint originals and any promo stamp or white labels etc that looked different than a clean stock copy were a negative.
Japanese dealers would leave these behind after cherry picking a collection and I was able to buy some in the $20 range.

By: ILYA

ILYA — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:55:29 +0000

Unfortunately, cannot tell which ones I own as they are still sitting at my place abroad. Have not seen them in the last 10 years. I only brought back some of the rarer (or so I thought) BNs, like the 1500 and 4000 series, and the 10 inchers. Who’d think these late monos would be multi-hundred dollar items. The point I was trying to make was that back then, almost no sellers would have paid any special attention to them. Maybe guys like Fred Cohen or Armand Lewis did. But for most shops, show and flea market dealers they were just another copies of the late 4200 series, where truly scarce record was the Ghetto Music but not the Right Touch.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 13:14:59 +0000

Ilya – “I own a few.” Pretty prescient to figure out they would be worth something someday. I’m impressed.

By: ILYA

ILYA — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 06:20:38 +0000

Yes, those mono promos are not too common. I own a few. They were like $15-20 items in the late 90s. And the regular stereos were $5-15 at any record show in NYC.

By: Woody

Woody — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 18:24:04 +0000

Art, by the time the D.P. was released Blue Note was only manufacturing lps in stereo. They did a very small mono run primarily for AM radio promo copies. Blue Note used the stock stereo covers with the “Audition MONO Lp, Not For Sale” sticker covering over Stereo on the cover.
The Promo Liberty RVG mono’s are first pressings and very limited in number therefore desirable.

By: Art Klempner

Art Klempner — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:43:48 +0000

Although the D.P. Record cover says that the disc is STEREO ,the l.p. Is mono. Is this what makes the price$$$$$$. In the past25 Years this would reduce the price. You guys would know the answer. Thanks in advance.

By: Michel

Michel — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:44:21 +0000

GST : you made my friday night

By: DJ Pari

DJ Pari — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 17:39:47 +0000

At least Bob didn’t lie this time when he listed this as an original pressing … that’s progress!

By: cellery

cellery — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:44:26 +0000

Price on that Pearson is probably down to … well, that old Bobdjukic magic of course, but also due to it being mono, which, credit where credit’s due, he justly mentions as being very rare.