For the Price Guide: Dolphy, Jackie, Criss, Kamuca
Time to catch up on some recent collectible items on eBay and update the Jazz Collector Price Guide, which has now surpassed more than 4,000 entries, each one, I’m proud to say, hand-entered and hand-selected by yours truly. Here are a few more I’ll be hand-entering this weekend:
Eric Dolphy, Last Date, Fontana 681008ZL. This is the original Dutch pressing. The record was listed as M- and the cover as VG++. It sold for $661. Also from Eric Dolphy, Outward Bound, New Jazz 8236. This was an original deep groove purple label. The record was M- and teh cover was VG++. The price was $283.
Jackie McLean, Swing, Swang, Swingin’, Blue Note 4024. This was an original West 63rd Street pressing. The record was listed as VG++ and the cover as VG+. The price was $547.11.
Sonny Criss, Jazz USA, Imperial 9006. This was an original pressing. The record was listed as
VG+ and the cover seemed VG+ as well. The price was $262.
Richie Kamuca Quartet, Mode 102. This was an original pressing in VG++ condition, both record and cover. The price was $316.
Art Farmer and Donald Byrd, Two Trumpets, Prestige 7062. This was an original New York pressing. The record was M- and the cover was VG++. The price was $202.50.
even if the cover of “Last Date” is an original, issued by Fontana simultaneusly in the Netherlands and the U.K., collectors should know that this version is not the first one. The first original issue of this album, issued in Holland only, had a whitish cover with violet text and a blackish portrait of Dolphy. I have sen this record in the shops when Eric was still alive. After his death, the re-packaging became “Last Date”.