Jazz Vinyl On eBay: Mobley, JJ, Trane
What, pray tell, is on the Jazz Collector watch list this week? Glad you asked.
The seller Bullsite2000 from Italy has another fine batch of records on eBay, including: Hank Mobley, Soul Station, Blue Note 4031. This looks to be an original West 63rd Street pressing and it looks to be n beautiful M- condition. The seller is quite reputable, so we see no reason why this one won’t join its many brothers in the $1,000 bin when it closes tomorrow. The current price is a bit more than $600. Here’s another from the same seller: Hank Mobley With Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan, Blue Note 1540. This is an original Lexington Avenue pressing with the flat edge, deep grooves, etc. It’s in beautiful condition with equally beautiful pictures. The current price is more than $800 and it has not yet reached the seller’s reserve. Would anyone be surprised if this one
entered the $2,000 bin? This one, from a different seller, is just at $66 as I type this, and the temptation is to not type it at all and just bid on it: The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 1, Blue Note 1505. This looks to be an original pressing and it looks to be in M- condition.
And a non-Blue Note: John Coltrane With the Red Garland Trio, Prestige 7123. This is an original pressing that looks to be in M- condition for the vinyl and either M- or VG++ for the cover. It is currently in the $150 price range. It will sell for more than that, right?
Well, Al, you seem to have skipped one major Blue Note auction here: Jutta Hipp at the Hickory House!!
We still have three more days to go and they’re already at 1800 Bucks!
Check it out by clicking HERE.
A superb release which I only own as a Japanese rerelease on CD, but still: this fabulous Blue Note of Jutta Hipp might slip into the 2000 Dollar bin before we know it!
Dealer claims the flat edge, the “ear” (or P for Plastylyte) the deep groove pressed in the label and according to the photos he ain’t lyin’ 😉
In other words, Al: don’t forget to track what happens to the cute female German pianist! 😀
Mattyman, The Netherlands
And about the J.J. Johnson: for once I decided to take part in a real auction. I promised myself to leave at 200 bucks. But whatever I offered after the 85 bucks it was on when I clicked on the auction, after every “confirm bid” I got outbid instantly. 100 bucks, 150 bucks, 155 bucks: instantly outbid. I called it quits. This basically means that someone probably already has decided to fork out a thousand on it anyway, so I left it at that. Hope I don’t sound like a sore loser now 😉
Mattyman, The Netherlands
Mattyman,it looks like that’s the one item listed that really EARNS a “wow”,lol!
Mattyman — Thank you for pointing out the Jutta Hipp record and, yes, it has been on my watch list. I don’t always post everything on the watch list and I usually wait until two days or less are left on the auction before writing about it. Within the Blue Note 1500 series this is the first “gap” I have in my collection, meaning I don’t have a vinyl version of this LP in any format. I do, however, have a very nice copy of Blue Note 1516, which is an original, Lexington Avenue flat edge pressing.
I made the decision to play the records selected by Al in his editorials. So often I take out the same records again and again (Farmers Market and Gone with Golson on NJ and the Lennie Niehaus Sextet on CR, to mention some all time favourites).
So, I played Soul Station, for the 2nd or 3 rd time in my life. It is a bit soul tinged, as the title suggests, esp. in some drumming passages. Overall it is tasteful, but not essential Mobley.
Mattyman creates a lot of excitement concerning “das Mädchen aus Leipzig”. I bought Jutta’s 1516, Lex flat edge etc, from a 99 cts bin a long while ago and re-sold it for $500 when the euro was 80 cts. That is fun. According to standard policy I don’t play records I sell, when it is an only copy. I don’t want the risk of deciding not to sell.
So, Mattyman, tell me about this music. It is so terrific?? Instead
I just played the Jutta Hipp quintet, recorded in Germany (Modern Sounds from Germany) on Blue Note.
Very nice indeed, Tristano oriented. I loved What’s New done in trio format. This album is certainly going to stay in my collection. And, for sure, I will not lay down $ 2000 to acquire the Hickory House.
about Jutta: not always i like a record ONLY for the music. The (romantic) feeling/interpertation i have with a musician or a cover or a story about the lp also contributes to the overall interpertation/appriciation of the music.
I have that also with jutta hipp. Mayby because she was an outsider, or so little is known of her, or because she was a woman between man at Blue Note? that also makes me “like ‘ her music a bit more.
I would agree that Farmer’s Market is a “better’ record by far.
Well Rudolf, as I once said in one of my first comments here, from all the known Jazz labels, I enjoy collecting Blue Note CDs the most and every now and then I try to lay hands on an original vinyl pressing to add to my Blue Note “shrine”. The first Jutta Hipp I obtained (on CD, connoisseur edition 🙂 ) was the Blue Note session she recorded with Zoot Sims. And despite what other Jazz fanatics said about it, I was mesmerized by the album. It wasn’t just the album as a whole, no, it was definitely the piano playing that added that little extra for me.
Since I never found a domestic pressing on CD of “Live at The Hickory House Vol.1 & 2”, I decided to fork out the money for a Japanese re-release (although I’m not particularly interested in Jap. releases, since they always lack bonus cuts and are in my humble opinion made from 1st generation masters) and when I played “Hickory…” I -again- was mesmerized by the material presented and yes, Jutta’s piano playing. Her sound is fragile, sensitive, forgiving, soothing and relaxed but still joyful and full of life. No need to say that I have a bit of a weakness for pianists! 🙂 Oh well, folks, I guess that everyone has a favourite album that others would consider not that good. It’s all a matter of taste!
Love these little discussions in the comments!
Mattyman, The Netherlands
maarten/Mattyman: your heartfelt comments make me regret I sold the Hickory albums!
Maarten is right: she was an outsider in the Blue Note stable: female and a foreigner.
The cover photo gives the impression of a fragile, enigmatic woman.
I will soon play BLP 1530 to check her development since the recording she made in Germany.
Many years later there would be another foreign female pianist at Blue Note: Renée Rosne, French Canadian.
Since you mentioned Renee Rosnes,Rudolf,I note that her band is at the Village Vanguard this week-and that her 9pm set(eastern time)will be broadcast live and webcast as well.Let’s hear it for talented pianists! The link-http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129751350
ceedee: that is interesting. I heard her live with her trio in Manhattan in the nineties. I was very much impressed by this talented lady.
I’ll try out the link. Thanks.
Thanks for that link, Ceedee! I’ll be close to my computer to check that webcast out this weekend and I will most certainly record that performance!
Mattyman, The Netherlands.