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By: Lots of Cool Stuff in this Post | jazzcollector.com

Lots of Cool Stuff in this Post | jazzcollector.com — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:22:34 +0000

[…] lovely condition, for an original copy of Freddie Redd, Shades of Redd. And I wrote about it here Shades of . . . . . I do remember being slightly admonished by one reader (Mark, if you are still out there) for not […]

By: d_notes

d_notes — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:03:53 +0000

…Congrats Al ! (So now what do you get the Jazz Collector who has “everything” next birthday / Christmas ?)

By: Bill W.

Bill W. — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:15:01 +0000

Congrats Al, and those shelves look great!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:13:46 +0000

Al,

Congrats on the excellent snag. There is nothing like checking the box on a title you’ve been chasing for some time (well, within reason anyway). I’ll have to consider looking for this title. It just hasn’t risen to the top of my list yet.

I guess it needs to replace BN1598, as I doubt I’ll every find a copy without taking our a credit line on my home. 🙂

But I did finally very recently add a 1st press Saxophone Colossus to the stash!

By: ADAMSKI

ADAMSKI — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:58:43 +0000

Well done Al, it’s been some search, i’ve followed it for the last decade.
enjoy sir

By: DJ Pari

DJ Pari — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:13:31 +0000

Late to the party, but congrats, Al. Shades of Redd was never at the top of my priority list, I simply wasn’t as familiar with the record. When I checked it out on Spotify, I liked it a lot but it still didn’t move to the top. In January, I was offered a minty first pressing for a very fair price, so I snagged it then. And when I first played it, and listened to it in all it’s room-filling mono glory, I was an immediate convert. What an amazing session, so very well recorded and that bright red sleeve is really poppin’, what a thing of beauty this is. Bottom line, I understand your passion for this album, I share it, and I am happy that you found a copy for what seems like a fair trade to me.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:29:37 +0000

Dottorjazz, wich was THE Record for you ?
Congratulations Al. I listened to my copy of Shades of Redd yesterday. Put a big smile on my face too.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:34:50 +0000

http://matsgus.com/discaholic_corner/?p=2048

Robert does not mince words here and his opinion is perhaps a bit more vicious then mine but there it is!

Condition usually commands a premium – witness that mono “juju” still in the shrink which cracked $1000 recently on eBay.

So if your “sonnys crib” is truly pristine then…

Anyway please enjoy your score and I don’t want to take away from it! Part of me just remembers getting old psychedelic/rock paper catalogs in the pre-internet days and so often many of them had “wants lists” of all high value items and the “for trade” lists were all more common inexpensive stuff so maybe that helped form my apprehension about trades!

My copy of “shades of redd” has an ugly looking (and feelable scratche) on one side but miraculously plays through with next to no audible tics and the cover is quite clean. Because of that nasty scratch I got it for $350 many years ago.

By: lennib

lennib — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:49:27 +0000

I always went by Harvey Pekar’s comment on taking lps or money in a trade whenever possible.
From the cover of ‘American Splendor Music Comics #1.’
“I’ll take the lps. Money’s still in print. The records aren’t.”

By: Al

Al — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:13:59 +0000

Which is . . . ?