Four for the Holidays
Heading into the holiday weekend, here are some of the auctions we’ve been watching on eBay, starting with the Roy Haynes Quartet, Out of the Afternoon, Impulse A-23. This was an original mono pressing with white promo label and the Van Gelder in the dead wax. The record and cover were both listed in VG+ condition and the final price was $416. The same seller had Curtis Fuller Volume Three, Blue Note 1583. This looked to be an original deep groove mono pressing with the West 6rd Street address. The record and cover were listed in VG+ condition. The final price was $736.
John Coltrane, Blue Train, Blue Note 1577. This was a mono pressing. It looked like it had deep grooves, but there was no mention of deep grooves, ears, RVGs or any of the other markers – not to mention it was a New York USA label. And someone had sliced the cover on the top and spine. Who would do that, and why? Anyway, despite all of those issues, the record still sold for more than $200. BTW, am I the only one who wonders why they called the record Blue Train as opposed to Blue Trane?
One more: Mal Waldron, Left Alone, Bethlehem 6045. This looked to be an original red label pressing listed in VG+ condition for the record and probably VG for the cover. The final price was $580.
Back in the 60s a friend of mine had quite a large collection of interesting music that wouldn’t quite fit into his shelving unit.
He had all the sleeves guillotined so that they would fit!
No one thought LPs would ever be valuable back then.
I had a friend who would immediately upon buying a new album reinforce the seams with adhesive tape, all around.
He later deeply regretted his stupidly.
Happy Christmas and a very good and generous New Year to all of you.
I had a friend, or was it me?.., that sold all his albums in 1990 and bought CD’s for it, the future!
Now my friend, or was it me?.., is buying vinyl to get it all back, at quadruple the prices, the future!
do wish everybody good health for the next year.
Courageously forward!
I know a guy who ditched his mono originals in exchange for later stereo issues. He reasoned that “progress” justified his behaviour. The guy was me.
Did the same, Rudolf—except kept my mono Bill Evans “Portrait in Jazz since the “Autumn Leaves” different (and better) than the stereo version—
Coltrane “slices” look a bit shabby, and I’ve definitely seen partial or near-complete splits like that. Not sure they were intentional or just entropy… things happen to record covers, for sure!
Seam split on that Coltrane looks like wear or an accident; were it intentional I’d expect a much cleaner cut, not frayed like this. Who knows though, stranger things and all that …
Coltrane BT is described as Deep Groove, RVG, Ear, 9M….information in the listing title, and in the Ebay info box above the seller’s description. One of the pictures clearly shows the ear and RVG. NY DG and 9M copy probably sounds exactly the same as first pressing. If the LP is in VG+ condition, then it is probably a good purchase for $200 or so.