Three Tenors
There were many records we were watching this past week on eBay, so let’s get right to it, starting with Sonny Rollins Plays, Period 1204. This was an original deep groove pressing in VG+ condition for both the record and the cover. There were just two bids, but the record sold for $542.10. I am a big Sonny fan, as most of you know, and I think this is the only 12-inch Rollins record from the ’50s or ’60s where I am still looking for an original pressing. I’ll keep looking because the price of this one was too much for me.
Not sure when this became a $240 record, but apparently it did: John Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard, Impulse 10. This was an original orange-label pressing we presume, although the information in the listing was all screwed up. It was listed in M- condition for the record and VG+ for the cover, assuming that was the description for this record. Someone took a chance and won the auction at $239.
And, for the $1,000 bin we have Cliff Jordan, Cliff Craft, Blue Note 1582. This looks to be an original deep groove pressing with the West 63rd address. The record and cover are both in VG++ condition. The record sold for $1,275.
There seems to have been so much interest and activity in recent weeks in our beloved Jazz Record section of Ebay. There have been plenty of instances where I think i’m in with a shot (or normally would be), and the amount of bids and the pricing has just goes through the roof.
I’m a big Sonny fan too, and still have plenty of empty space to fill with Sonny records I don’t have, but I just seem to luck out on price time and time again.
I finally managed to pick up a very nice W50th copy of Saxophone Collossus though; but that was right place right time, and that doesn’t happen to me very much at all.
The exchange rate often kills the deal for me too at 1NZD = 0.79US plus freight at the same rate.
There’s some interesting Sonny records on ebay right now. Even a sealed copy of Way Out West:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290952303606?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Yeah, I’ve noticed mid-level free jazz records going stratospheric – got completely taken down on a copy of Steve Lacy “The Kiss” last night, oddly – so either there’s one hell of an economic rebound that I didn’t notice or things are just in one of those feeding frenzy cycles.
As for that Trane listing, it was right next to a copy of Miles’ ESP and I assume the seller got lazy with copying and pasting.