Comments on: Blue Noting on eBay

By: ceedee

ceedee — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:55:30 +0000

RE: Flight To Jordan-I remember having a copy WAY back when and unloading it. I thought the compositions were too lame. Even the title tune was done up in a finer fashion by Art Blakey’s Messengers on the album Tough,which I think was on Cadet. Just my opinion,though-“your results may vary”.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:56:48 +0000

Alun, you are absolutely right, there is more and more a dissociation between artistical value and collectors’ value.

By: alun severn

alun severn — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:02:13 +0000

Rudolf, I suppose it is arguable that eventually the inherent artistic quality of any collectible — a painting, a record, a book, anything, really — becomes detached from its commodity value, its value-as-object.

This is clearly what is happening with Blue Notes and other collectible records.

Prices vary according not to the quality of the performance or the combination of musicians — although these play some part for some collectors — but simply driven by rarity value and “desirability”.

I guess it has always been this way and will always be so. We are simply seeing market values exert an ever greater dominance in all fields of collecting.

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:17:19 +0000

Flight to Jordan is a fine album, good hardbop music. Nothing revolutionary there for sure.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:06:52 +0000

Alun’s remark re “Flight to Jordan” being a mediocre record obtaining a high price, captures concisely the actual market situation. People are paying top money, not for the music, but for a totem (a Blue Note with ears, RvG, DG, no Inc. etc.) I am not there to make any judgment though.

By: Shaft

Shaft — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:33:48 +0000

Alun – It’s a collectors item for sure. If you just want the music buy the CD.

By: Katharsis

Katharsis — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:33:16 +0000

Alun, there’s two possible answers.
1) It’s a Blue Note.
2) Someone can hear something in that record, you cannot.
I would assume, that it’s a mixture of both.
Listening to music and buying records is always a personal thing.

By: alun severn

alun severn — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:17:37 +0000

I don’t know enough about ebay to judge whether the concerns raised above are well grounded, but having listened to FLIGHT TO JORDAN over the w/e I am left wondering why anyone would pay 800 dollars for such a mediocre record!

By: Chewy

Chewy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:55:26 +0000

no ones commin’ over, i just live in an urban area

By: ceedee

ceedee — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:02:49 +0000

So,Chewy..the question now becomes “What kind of characters are you letting in your home where you have to scatter your Blue Notes under the sofa cushions and amongst the potted plants?” (lol)