Later Pressing Syndrome: One More Example
To expand upon the point made earlier, we were just watching this record sell on eBay: Jackie McLean, Right Now!, Blue Note 84215. This was a stereo pressing with the Liberty label. The record was M- and the cover VG+. Normally we’d have expected this to sell for $20 or $25 at the most. This copy sold for $59.50. It does seem that some of the later pressings are becoming more valued and collectible. Or maybe, like so many other things in the Jazz Collector world, it is strictly a Blue Note phenomenon.
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If it is the music that moves you, then a clean later copy will sound much better than a low quality early pressing. Sometimes the differance can be astonishing.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH A GOOD LATER ISSUE?
In the early sixties I ordered directly from Alfred Lion, at a price of $ 3.75 each, the total available Blue Note catalogue from 1500 thru 1599, with the exception of organ records. As a result some of my most beloved records such as Rollins 1542, 1558 and 1581, which I already had, are double in my collection: so I have the original 47W63 pressings and the NYC issues.
Since they are already for nearly 50 years in my collection, they have become originals as well, as cherished as the few Blue Notes I bought in the fifties (as Al knows, I am a Prestige man; I only started to buy massively Blue Notes when Prestige was at a dead end with their tenor/organ sessions and other expressions of so called SOUL).
Sometimes I compare the quality of a 47W63 with a NYC, they are really the same. If I would be a debutant collector, I could be very happy with a collection of original Blue Notes anno say 1963, what’s wrong with that??