I’ll definitely check out the Melle. Mahalo!

Mellé does indeed have three very fine Prestige sessions. I have two of them on record.

I have wondered about Gil Melle, his playing style. I don’t have any of his records. I think he led on some Prestige albums too.

By the way, I’ve noticed, maybe it’s been happening for a while, many sellers listing on eBay today start at very high prices. The seller with the Mobley Lee Peckin’ Time began I believe at $8.99, let it run it’s course and got a nice $1600+. I know there are some on discogs and the prices are higher. Maybe this Mobley record may have received more if on a Carolina Soul listing but still it did well and doing it auction style. I communicated with one record store in my area that also sells on eBay , they started a record at over 700.00 for an auction when all their other listings were much much less. It’s like they want to take out any “risk” and set a “floor” as to what they will accept, even if it’s higher than the market rate. Maybe they should just sell at a fixed rate?

I’ve also noticed a lot of sellers, probably not into records/jazz like many here, stumble on some vinyl and list it hoping to get $$$. There’s a Coltrane Blue Train up and it’s listed as an original 1957 release, which it isn’t. I did write the seller and said it’s a nice early repress from 1960’s. I wonder sometimes if these sellers know the truth, have done some research and trying to find less informed buyers or maybe they don’t know. I try to be gracious as I was blessed to have some mentors in the past show me the various labels, releases, covers and so forth. I don’t pretend to know everything as I’m still learning today but if I sold a record, listed it, I would try to put in as much information as possible about the release. Mahalo!