Jazz Vinyl on eBay: Ad Lib & a Few Blue Notes
I’m looking forward to the day, coming soon, when my real work slows down and I will be able to post more items and more thoughtful items on Jazz Collector. In the meantime, I will keep updating some of the records we like to watch on eBay and keep an eye out for interesting items as well. For today:
What’s a VG-minus version of this record worth: Jackie McLean, the New Tradition, Ad Lib 6601? We’ll find out later today. This one is just a little bit more than $200 and is a little tempting, to be honest, based on the seller’s description that it sounds decent. I had a VG copy of this I sold years ago for $500 and have always regretted it, and I’d love to get another copy for the collection. Probably not this one, but I’ll keep looking.
Here’s a nice original Blue Note: Horace Silver with Art Blakey and Sabu, Blue Note 1520. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing in M- condition. I don’t normally think of the Horace Silvers an the same league — value-wise — as some of the other Blue Notes, but this one is already more than $600.
This one is on the verge of breaking the $1,000 barrier but has still no reached the seller’s reserve price: Lee Morgan Volume 3, Blue Note 1557. This looks to be an original first press in M- condition. The current price is $987 with a couple of days to go.
Here’s another 10-inch beauty of a record that sold for more than $500 this week: Clifford Brown, New Star on the Horizon, Blue Note 5032. This one is in VG++ condition for the vinyl and the cover and is close to $200. I want to go back in time and go to a record store in 1955 when this record was new and buy a whole batch of clean 10-inch LPs and bring them back with me to now and play them on my current stereo equipment. Hey, it’s the holiday season, we can all make a wish even if it can’t come true.
You never know how these mid-week auctions will go…I lucked out this past year and picked up a +VG copy of Jackie’s ‘The New Tradition’ for $750 at the end of April on ebay through a negotiated “buy-it-now” offer. The cover was definitely +VG, but the LP itself was better than the seller let on.
I found this descriptive blurb writen about this great LP online:
“No doubt the original pressing of Ad Lib 6601 is one of the most sought after records in the history of Jazz – often called “the holy grail of Hard Bop” Enthusiasts will welcome the opportunity to enjoy the legendary cover art of Parboo Singh (the silhouette of a black cat resembling the skyline of Manhattan) in outstanding shape.”
here it comes again:how many this year ?
rare or not rare ?
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…That Ad Lib Jackie only fetched $504 !!! Someone really lucked out. I guess it’s getting too close to Christmas for the high-rollers, or could it be the return of the dreaded mid-week low-bid curse !? Perhaps we have finally hit that proverbial high water mark, and the LP market tides are receeding… Hey if Al can dream of going back in time, us bargain hunters can dream too can’t we, all the way back to 1955 prices ! …The reality is that everyone is probably hurting from their recent Black Friday / Cyber Monday spending sprees… (You know who you are ! heh heh)
It was graded VG-, so this price seems accurate. To anyone who has this one, is it a quality recording? I remember reading a few years ago in a forum, that the recording quality on this one was poor(but not the music which is incredible, grab a reissue if you can’t afford an original). Can anyone confirm or deny this?
Whether on original LP, CD or iTunes download… Jackie McLeans The New Tradition is a great Jazz album all round. (I have it on all formats for that very reason…) As for the sound quality on this one, the session was recorded by none other than the legendary recording Engineer Rudy Van Gelder… Need we say more?
I didn’t know it was a RVG. The original LP version of this one was always mysterious to me since I didn’t know anything about the label. All I knew was it was rare and expensive. A few years ago I got “The Jubilee sessions” cd. Ever since I’ve been looking for a nice copy and a nice price. Someday. Thanks for the info.
I have a VG+ copy of the Jackie album on Ad Lib and its fifties re-issue on Jubilee JGM 1064. The Jubilee is MINT, but its sound quality is inferior to the VG+ Ad Lib!
What is striking in the music is the drum accompaniment in a perfect Max Roach style. I have sometimes suspected that this Ronald Tucker is a fake and that Max is the actual drummer.
I have another Ad Lib, 10″ this time, of Billy Bauer.
Hang in there Mike, I am sure you will find one. I bought a copy of The New Tradition on iTunes initially to obsess over and enjoy long before I lucked out and found an original copy of the LP to call my own. Hunting these ones down is half the fun right !
Yea, I agree. I’m not short of music to listen to. Patience has served me well so far in my collecting.