Opening Up The $3,000 and $2,000 Bins

It looks as if the fallout from the Jazz Vinyl Fraud of 2009 hasn’t had much of an impact on the prices of high-end vinyl in the past few weeks. Here are a few records that will be entering the $1,000-plus bin in the Jazz Collector Price Guide. If things continue like this, we’ll have to create a $3,000 bin as well as a $2,000 bin. Take a look at these:

Dexter Gordon, Dexter Blows Hot and Cool, Dootone 207. This was an original pressing with the red vinyl. The record was listed in M- condition and the cover was VG++. The price was $3,371. This sets a new high price for this record, as far as what we have recorded in the Jazz Collector Price Guide. Our previous high was $3,059.

This was one of the items on eBay this week from the seller Blue Nipper, who received a lot of unsolicited praise from members of the Jazz Collector community who commented on the site: Tina Brooks, True Blue, Blue Note 4041. This was

an original pressing with the West 63rd Street address. It was listed in M- condition for both the record and the cover. The price was $2,037. Actually, in today’s market, that is quite a reasonable price, perhaps even a bargain considering the reputation of the seller as well as the condition of the record. The phony copy that was sold by Nautiluso in October went for nearly $3,250. Of course, we don’t know if that was a price that was jacked up by some behind-the-scenes shilling, but the $3,000 price tag seems closer to market reality than the $2,000 price.