Mobley Sets New Top Vinyl Price For Jazz Collector

Time to catch up on a few items. By now, most of you have probably seen what happened with those records we were watching from the Jazz Record Center. The Hank Mobley, Blue Note 1568 sold for $5,101, which is the highest price we’ve ever recorded for a jazz record at Jazz Collector. The previous high was $4,036 for a copy of Jackie McLean, The New Tradition, on Ad Lib. A lot of people have already commented on this one, so I don’t have much to add other than what I’ve often said: The market is the market and eBay reflects what the market will bear. This is the going rate for this record in this condition at this point in time. I was wrong, barely on a couple of my predictions. (1) I had opined that two of the other records from this auction would sell for more than $2,000 and only one of them did: Hank Mobley, Hank, Blue Note 1560, which is the one pictured here. This one sold for $2,347. The one that did not break the $2,000 barrier was:

Dexter Gordon, Dexter Blows Hot and Cool, Dootone 209. This one sold for $1,693.09. Clearly the restored cover impacted the price of this one, since this one has topped the $2,000 barrier — and even the $3,000 barrier — in previous instances catalogued on the Jazz Collector Price Guide. (2) I was also off in my prediction that the Bird Dial LP from this auction would get top dollar from among the group of 10-inch LPs we were watching. The Bird got quite a high price — $919 to be precise — but it will be topped by the Hank Mobley Blue Note, which is already at more than $1,100 with a little bit more than an hour to go before it closes.