Comments on: Catching Up (And We Mean Up!) on Rare Jazz Vinyl

By: Shaft

Shaft — Mon, 11 May 2020 12:11:15 +0000

Let’s just hope that not every good jazz album ends upp in the $1000 bin. It would surely be a shame. Surely it was not the intent of the threadstarter Art, but just because an LP does not go for a lot of money it does not mean that it must be better or more appreciated than a cheaper one. One of the charms about this hobby is for me that you can find a very interesting originla LP for $20-30.

My last LP’s like that are Richard Williams “A New Horn in Town” (OG Candid with VG cover) and Four for Jazz & Benny Bailey “A Land of Dolls” (Interchord 2-LP).

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 10 May 2020 18:00:41 +0000

Nice story Lenni…

By: lennib

lennib — Sun, 10 May 2020 17:23:49 +0000

Geez, “several tine”?!?!!!!
Insert ‘some time’ instead.

By: lennib

lennib — Sun, 10 May 2020 17:21:49 +0000

David S., I spent several tine talking and such with Gene Shaw at Old Wells Record Shop on north State in Chicago back in late ‘60’s. He was working as a cook in a diner down the block at the time. Signed his first two lps to me. Learned a lot from him, though I wish I had paid more attention. Too young at the time.
Yeah, that Rocky Boyd lp is nice. Dare I say I used to have it? It’s one I kinda wish I still did.

By: David S.

David S. — Sun, 10 May 2020 04:21:37 +0000

Lennib, you nailed it with the three Gene Shaw records. I still find it shocking that these are not better known and aren’t more sought out. Breakthrough in particular is as good as Rocky Boyd Quintet’s Ease It, which can sell for close to $1000 in mint condition.

By: JOK

JOK — Sun, 10 May 2020 01:50:32 +0000

I am glad to see your perspectives on these records. I am certainly glad to note I have a lot of them in my collection. For me? Carl Perkins, Dootone red vinyl.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Sat, 09 May 2020 18:35:51 +0000

Well, of course I wish that the records I’m still after stay south of the $1,000 bin…

That said I could see certain things like the Michel Portal on EMI-Pathé getting in there, or the François Tusques Mouloudji LPs — certainly very high quality European free jazz LPs. Though nowhere near as valuable, the Voce del Padrone issue of Gaslini’s “Nuovi Sentimenti” or the original Italian issues of Steve Lacy’s “Disposability” and “Sortie” should be coveted both in terms of scarcity and musical wonders to behold…

But at the end of the day I’d rather the music be accessible, so keeping things at a lower price point is fine by me.

By: lennib

lennib — Sat, 09 May 2020 18:19:00 +0000

Well, I don’t have many records left after selling most, so of those I kept:
1.Gigi Gryce on Signal
2. Gene Shaw any of his three on Argo, Breakthrough, Debut in Blues or Carnival Sketches.

By: RB

RB — Sat, 09 May 2020 17:44:46 +0000

Lee Morgan’s Take Twelve on Jazzland is the only thing he recorded during his long early-60s drug-related hiatus. It would go for a mint on a different label!

By: Giovanni Zanoni

Giovanni Zanoni — Sat, 09 May 2020 15:31:08 +0000

I forgot Full house by Wes Montgomery