Price Updates: Serge, Thad, Miles, Silver, et al

We’ve been quite busy the past few days updating the Jazz Collector Price Guide so, if you haven’t looked lately, it’s worth taking a peek. There are more than 4,100 records in there now, and quite a lot in the $1,000-and-up category. If you want to search by highest prices first, you can do that just by clicking the word “Price” at the top of the Guide, or you can just sort by fields. If you want to sort all of the records based on price, you can click on the link for View the Complete Price Guide. Anyway, here are a few more records we’ve added to the Guide.

Johnny Griffin Sextet, Riverside 264. This was an original blue label pressing. The record was listed as M- and the cover appeared by be bout VG+. The price was $237.50.

Miles Davis, Cookin’, Prestige 7094. This was an original New York pressing that was listed in M- condition for both the record and the cover. The price was $394.

The Magnificent Thad Jones, Blue Note 1527. This was an original Lexington Avenue pressing. The record was in VG++ condition and so was the cover. The price was $545.55.

Horace Silver, The Stylings of Silver, Blue Note 1562. This was an original West 63rd Street pressing. The record was listed as M- and the cover was at least VG+, perhaps better. The price was $154.49.

Here’s one we thought would fetch a higher price. Serge Chaloff, Blue Serge, Capital 142. This was listed in M- condition for both the record and the cover. The price was $185.06. I think with a record like this, you have to put Sonny Clark in either the title of your listing, or in the body of the text, so that people doing searches for Sonny Clark can find the record. Many of the fluctuations in the pricing on eBay depend upon subtleties such as this, which is why it’s sometimes difficult to compare, and that’s why we usually show a range on the Jazz Collector Price Guide.