Nice Records, Very Nice Condition
Here’s a couple we’re watching on eBay now:
Eric Dolphy, Out To Lunch, Blue Note 4163. This seems to be an original pressing, although it’s odd that one side is deep groove and the other isn’t. It is from the same seller who was selling all of those pristine records last week, and this looks to be of similar quality: Just beautiful if the pictures are accurate. This one is currently sitting at about and it hasn’t yet reached the seller’s reserve price. You may recall that we at Jazz Collector — okay, me at Jazz Collector — were quite flabbergasted when a copy of this record sold for the astronomical price is $1,524. We think that was an aberration, so it will be interesting to see what this one goes for.
Here’s another rare record that looks to be in very nice condition:
Introducing Lee Morgan, Savoy 12091. This is an original red label pressing that also looks to be in pristine M- condition. This one is currently at about $425 and, the way things have been going lately, both with this record and on eBay in general for rare records in pristine condition, would anyone be surprised if this one entered the $1,000 bin?
No doubt we can expect some hysteria about the Dolphy, but those late 4000 series DG on one side are actually second press.
Good morning & thank you for this site. I am wondering Michel about the 4000 series one sided dg being second presses?
Blue Note was using older stamp machines (with DG) to repress some titles. In this case, DG on one side does not significate first pressing. But the highest bidder will probably not even know and not even care…
Interesting information, Michel. So what would a first pressing of OUT TO LUNCH be? Deep-groove on both sides, or on neither?
First press would be no Deep Groove !!
Do you have any idea when they started the one sided DG for reissues? I checked a few of mine & I have a ‘Sounds of Jimmy Smith’ with this one sided DG with a inner sleeve from 1965. I checked my ‘Out to Lunch’ & it is flat on both sides & the corresponding BNs both are flat. Euclid just sold a Lou Donaldson ‘Time is Right’ that had a one sided DG & a 61st cover for 810$. Any idea when they switched to 61st covers? Thank you
Well this Lou Donaldson was not a first… but it was from Euclirecords…
I don’t know when the one sided DG reissue started. I know that Bobby Hutcherson’s Dialogue was reissued with DG one side…Maybe Lary Cohn is around and will answer all those question, and probably more…
The Lou Donaldson that Euclid sold for $810 was DG both sides, 47 West 63rd labels, ear etched and r on the bottom: is it not an original? I thought those were the attributes of an original from that period.
“Euclid just sold a Lou Donaldson ‘Time is Right’ that had a one sided DG & a 61st cover for 810$”.
This is the quote of Micheal People : if it was ONE SIDED as he describes, it wan not an original. If it was TWO sides DG, yes it was.
Sorry, my error, the lighting made it look like a one sided DG on my computer. Am still wondering about the 61st covers & when they were first introduced if anyone has any knowledge on this.
a note on the Brubeck giveaway. Brubeck did not write Take Five, Desmond did.
To Bob. Yes, that was my point. It would have been nice if they had pointed this out on the broadcast. Sorry if I was being a bit presumptive, just assumed the JC audience knew that.