Comments on: Price Updates: Trane, Friedman, Blue Notes

By: soulmerchant

soulmerchant — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:03:20 +0000

It is really NOT easy to find that trane with 50th street address anymore. I have the red cover version and it has bergenfield address on back (and on label). The original release is yellow cover with 50th street though. Comes up very seldom!

By: Michel

Michel — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:06:06 +0000

This Friedman album (fantastic one by the way) has very floating price. Sometimes you can get it for 20 $ and sometimes 200. Anyway thers’s one sure thing : the quality of the pressing is very bad, and even NM press have a very disturbing hiss.

By: Troy Grooms

Troy Grooms — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:58:03 +0000

The Dizzy Reece was a bargain!

I have seen the Friedman “Circle Waltz” fetch over $200 a couple of times, maybe as far back as 2 years ago. One of my favorite trio LPs ever! – Glad I was able to snag a minty japanese pressing of it for $10!

By: ceedee

ceedee — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:26:40 +0000

For me,this Prestige cover -and the later A Love Supreme- are iconic in that they seem to capture a mood,a moment in time,that words fail to express. Coltrane’s solo search was really just starting-the hands folded in determination,the proud expression with a faint smile,horn at the ready-classic! Though none of it would mean much if the music wasn’t just as impressive.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:19:10 +0000

I have both the yellow and the red versions, both Bergenfield, NJ. I think the first pressing (NYC) was always with a yellow cover. My red sleeve version has Bergenfield, NJ labels and no adress on the back. Typical for the immediate post NY period, when they were moving to Bergenfield. It is a GEM album, like many classic NYC albums from 7060 on. My yellow cover is a Bergenfield, NJ pressing and the cover has the NJ adress printed on the back.
As I understand, the red cover version is something like a 2nd print, very nice and rarer than the yellow versions, whether NY or NJ.

By: Japhy

Japhy — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:21:20 +0000

Wow that is pretty crazy on the Trane. Let me ask: I’ve had that record in both the yellow-tinted sleeve shown here and a red-tinted sleeve. I sold the red one 4 or 5 years ago and regret that I can’t recall the differences in the pressing. Anyone know, or have the red one or know why they did both colors?