This Week on eBay: Prestige, 10-Inch & a Blue Note

I’ve been putting more records on eBay lately — just a function of time and how much work my real job entails — and I actually structured some organization to the items I posted last week. I had accumulated a bunch of Prestige duplicates, so today is Prestige Day and there are 10 Prestiges closing later. Then I had pulled out a bunch of 10-Inch LPs, so tomorrow is 10-Inch Day, and there are 16 10-inchers. Then, on Thursday, I decided to go back to Prestige with another 10 items. Then I figured we can’t let a week go by without a proper Blue Note, so on Thursday night I put up a heavy-duty Blue Note collectible. Here’s a sampling of items of interest, and you can always see my eBay Items if you click Items For Sale above:

Gil Melle, Gil’s Guests, Prestige 7063. This is a nice copy in VG+ condition, both record and cover, and it plays really well. Not to mention that it features some great Kenny Dorham. This one is only at $49, so it could be a bargain, depending upon how heavily trafficked eBay is today.

John Coltrane and Hank Mobley, Two Tenors, Prestige 7043. This is a yellow label with the New Jersey address and it’s also in nice VG+ condition, plays great. This is one of those second pressings I was talking about in an earlier post: It’s not the first issue of this LP — which was under Elmo Hope’s name — but it’s a great package, great cover and great record and it’s Prestige and it’s yellow label and it’s Coltrane. To me, it’s irresistible (which is why I have two copies, I guess).

And the heavyweight Blue Note is:

Grachan Moncur III, Some Other Stuff, Blue Note 4177. This is a New York USA pressing and it’s in very nice condition: M- on the record and VG++ on the cover (graded conservatively). It’s currently priced at $99 and we’ll see what happens as the week progresses. It closes Thursday evening.

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3 comments

  • Rudolf A. Flinterman

    2 Tenors: lovely re-packaging of “Informal Jazz” by Elmo Hope. 7043 is a good example of modern marketing. After the Hope sold not very well, or ran out of stock, Prestige re-issued the album in 1958 under the title “Two Tenors”, putting Hank Mobley in the leading role with a nice abstract cover. Since Trane in the early sixties was a bigger name than Mobley, they repackaged 7043 again. The 2nd “Two Tenors” has a photo cover with Trane taking the 1st place and Mobley 2nd. Trane’s picture looks early ’60s.

  • Rudolf A. Flinterman

    I see your Grachan Moncur on page one of EBay. How have you managed and at what cost?

  • If you buy a Featured Item listing it costs $25 and they put it on the front page, the way the used to do with the Featured Plus listing, which costs $14.

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