Comments on: Catching Up On the $1,000 (Plus) Bin

By: don frese

don frese — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:41:33 +0000

D’uh. I got my house numbers garbled, and thought I had some anomaly, but on further examination, I just have a later edition with Blue Note’s new mailing address. In the words of Emily Litella, never mind.

By: don frese

don frese — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:32:11 +0000

That is correct.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 07:09:55 +0000

Its says “West 61 St.” on the back of the jacket, not the label I presume?

By: don frese

don frese — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:31:23 +0000

I am a collector, but for the music, although I have some rare records. After reading this entry, I examined my copy of Blue Train, BN 1577, and discovered something odd: instead of West 63rd St, it says West 61st St. Is this a typo? Or what?

Thanks for any assistance

By: don-lucky

don-lucky — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:51:19 +0000

Amazing that someone would pay over two grand for a copy of Blue Train based on an ebay posting that doesn’t have the original low contrast (dark) cover variation, and doesn’t mention if it even has the illusive New York 23 address on the second side of the LP. Close but no cigar as they say…

By: ADAMSKI

ADAMSKI — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:10:14 +0000

I think people would have dug Mobley from all generations but lack of exposure and air play from the 50’s to maybe the CD era kept many a great musician’s work in the dark. The reissue programmes by Cuscuna and the like broadened the audience around the globe. You know its still really quite difficult to hear real quality Jazz on the airwaves. For people to discover this music they really have to put quite a bit of effort in. During the 60’s 70’s and part of the 80’s no real international exposure, no air play….No money!!!!
Hank was appreciated and respected during the golden era as reflected in the sheer volume of dates he appeared on and led. For sure if he had survived long enough i’m sure he would have enjoyed the later adulation and fame Rollins has had. I agree with you Mike F, the Collecting thing is very enjoyable etc. but we have a duty to keep this great American art form alive and healthy. We can only do that by supporting and embracing new Jazz music. The next Mobley / Coltrane is surely out there…..

By: Mike F

Mike F — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:36:01 +0000

LenniB, I agree with everything you say. Compensation is a tricky issue, but also a very interesting one. The other interesting issue to me, is why people catch on to things too late. Now factor out all the Mobley fans who were too young to dig him in the mid 50s(that would be me), why didn’t people appreciate him on the same level that people do now. That’s a very interesting issue to me as well. I don’t really have an answer so much as I have the opinion that I try to learn as much as possible about what art(jazz in particular) is going on at the moment. Then by appreciating artists who are doing things now I can(on a very small level) correct what I see as the injustice of artists being unappreciated until after there death.
Put simply, I like to keep my ear to the ground and appreciate what’s happening now, as well as what happened in the past. Maybe one day I’ll hear the next Mobley( hasn’t happened yet).

By: ADAMSKI

ADAMSKI — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:15:56 +0000

yes but a very very nice piece of plastic.
I agree its’s Strange so many great copies are surfacing

By: Lennib

Lennib — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:49:05 +0000

Mike F et al, yyes, really there is no problem with the astronomicak prices these records are getting theses days ohter than the fact I sold mine too early, back in the 60’s.!!! And regarding valuation of artists during their creative period, it is perhaps the nature of art as a commodity. the musicians were paid an agreed upon amount , made the record and moved on.
Compensation is always a tricky issue, what is fair value? Anyway, paying close to 5 grand for a record is still a lot for what I consider to be a piece of plastic. To be sure, a piece of history if you will, a relic of a moment in time, yet all in all to the majority of humanity, a piece of plastic.

By: Mike F

Mike F — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:04:31 +0000

LenniB, I’ve thought about this too but I don’t see to much wrong with it. The problem is that many artists don’t get the proper consideration at the time of there making art. Why does society not give many artist there due until many years later? I don’t know. This isn’t universally true either, I mean Miles was successful in his time and made plenty of money. Stravinsky, Getz, Brubeck, and many others were well compensated as well. Now do I really care if Mobley lived in luxury, not really. But I do believe if he was better compensated we would have had even more Mobley music to listen to.
At least society has learned more and the system compensates artists more proportional to there success. It’s not flawless by any stretch, but it’s improved a lot in 50 years.