Comments on: Four Updates For the $1,000-Plus Bin

By: hardbopster

hardbopster — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:19:25 +0000

I snagged the Alto Madness, it was properly graded. Been collecting various genres for decades. These days I am focusing on a few jazz favorites from the mid fifties to mid 60’s and this was one of them for me. I mostly buy nm or better and at that level purchases in jazz are few and far between because prices at that level usually go sky high even for somewhat common records (like Money Jungle from Euclid records). Sadly, nm or better BNs are out of my comfort zone, and I literally only have a handful of wants on that front and they are not even holy grails, just things I like.

By: lennib

lennib — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:50:50 +0000

Well, this has nothing to do with this post and news travels slow to Jupiter. However I just heard Bob Porter passed.
He was a most interesting character.

By: maarten kools

maarten kools — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 18:41:46 +0000

thanks @Bill!!

By: cellery

cellery — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 06:53:32 +0000

Whew, that’s a great article Bill, thanks for sharing! I especially loved this little anecdote:

“One of the tunes on Basra was ‘Lazy Afternoon,’ a tender ballad. We were in full flight, mid-take, with our eyes closed, when Kuhn reached inside the piano to pluck a chord. There were immediate loud and abrupt noises over the P.A. Rudy came running out to the room in the middle of the take and angrily told Kuhn, ‘If you touch those strings again, this date is over.’ We were all sitting there pinned to our seats with our eyes bugged out.”

By: bill

bill — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 02:36:32 +0000

Coincidentally, there is a nice article that was just published by Jazz Times, written by Ethan Iverson about Basra and Pete LaRoca which is basically a remembrance by Steve Swallow.
https://jazztimes.com/features/columns/steve-swallow-pete-la-roca/

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:08:40 +0000

It’s interesting how some of these albums seem to have little blips of interest and price reaches a new peak, and then the price settles down (admittedly at a new, higher level). The previous peak for Basra was in 2013, when a few copies on eBay/Discogs sold for around $700-800. Then for the next few years it seems like the average price was around $400.

And check out this site’s post from January 29, 2011. Looks like Al correctly predicted this.

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:50:09 +0000

Basra is a great record and its no surprise it is in high demand. The real change is in the condition grading ; plus, with those records getting rarer the condition is still important, but is not as relevant as it used to be.

By: WebWax

WebWax — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:41:28 +0000

Yeah, the 80th Anniversary reissue of “Basra” remastered by Kevin Gray will do just fine for me. If I find a reasonably priced original, great! However, the prices over the past several years has gotten a tad too expensive for my budget. I just hope these copies are going to folks that truly love and will cherish the music.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 13:57:39 +0000

wish salaries increased commensurate with vinyl prices.

I am told there is a cardboard shortage because, in part, so much online shopping has resulted in exponentially more boxes being used. People are basically “gripped out,” in record parlance, whether due to stimmy bux, being at home all the time, Instagram, or some combination thereof. The stores that are open basically sell through their wall items in a heartbeat… WFMU is going to be a feeding frenzy next year. Yipes.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 05:07:11 +0000

The “$30 price floor for jazz vinyl” has been pretty level since vinyl existed, if you bought Basra when it came out in 1965 for $4, that would be $33 in 2021 US dollars.