Highlights from a (sold) Estate Sale
A reader sent me a link to this estate sale with a note that it was being sold as a complete collection: The Estate of Alan J. Javorcky: Noted Trombone and Jazz Musician. I received the note around 3 p.m. yesterday and went immediately to the site. First thing I saw was a note that the jazz collection had been sold and was no longer available. I decided to look anyway, and I suggest that you do the same before they take the pictures away.Go all the way down to lot #212. First you’ll see a batch of EPs. At first blush, I thought these were 10-inch LPs erroneously listed as EPs, but I’m pretty sure they are EPs. Maybe someone can confirm. The picture is from that group of EPs It’s a challenge because the EPs and 10-inch LPs often used the same covers. Move down to 310 and you start with LPs of the 10- and 12-inch kind.
Some highlights, from a collectible standpoint. Cannonball Adderley, Somethin’ Else; Finger Poppin’ with the Horace Silver Quintet; Art Blakey, Mosaic; Modern Jazz Trombones, 10-inch Prestige; Miles Davis All Stars Volume 2, 10-inch Prestige; Stylings of Silver; Blowin’ the Blues Away; 6 Pieces of Silver; Horace-Scope; Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book; Frank Morgan on GNP; Best Coast Jazz; Study in Brown and Clifford and Max at Basin Street; Miles Davis, Blue Haze; Tenor Madness; Miles Davis All-Star Sextet, 10-inch Prestige; Chet Baker Sings, 10-inch; Miles with Sonny Rollins, 10-inch Prestige; Miles, Blue Note 5013, 10-inch.
That’s about 20 nice collectibles, assuming they are in good condition, which is a strong assumption to make, sight unseen There are other collectibles and probably a total of 200-300 LPs altogether, plus a load of CDs. Our intrepid reporter on the scene says that “word around Nashville is it sold to a guy in Houston for five figures.” Congratulations to a collector or dealer in Houston. If you see this post and want to share anything about the collection, be our guest.
From the description on the website, “1,540 albums most of them are Jazz Albums.”
THAT would have been fun to paw through.
I was interested until I realized they had to be picked up – no shipping. Too far from Connecticut!
5 figures for 1500 LPs is close to $10/LP and that seems like overpaying unless there are a few that pay for the entire collection (which, from the looks of it, I doubt there are).
Rich — we could have carpooled. 🙂
I’m the one who sent the listing and it is nice to learn from what you saw in the pics. It is pretty hard to find good jazz collections in Nashville typically at Estate sales. But if anyone ever wants to trade old Patsy Clines for jazz records let me know 🙂
I just saw this, I bought this collection. I am from the Richmond VA area not Houston. The final price was not five figures but it was not cheap. I would say the top 20- 25 records sold individually would pay for the entire lot. I bought his stereo system as well.