Comments on: Guest Review: Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide

By: Al

Al — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:27:25 +0000

Hi, Christina. They are not. — al

By: Christina Melke

Christina Melke — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 01:30:46 +0000

I was wondering if goldmine magazines from 2008 are worth anything

By: rl1856

rl1856 — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 19:14:27 +0000

Yes the Umphred guides were/are useful as catalog resources. The non Umphred guides are useless. I still have v1 and v2 and I refer to them from time to time.

FYI- 3.5% appreciation from 1994-2017 would be 2.206x the original price, and 5% appreciation would be 3.071x the original price.

3.5% $10 x 2.206 = $22.06
5.0% $10 x 3.071 = $30.71

As a general analysis tool, I am impressed with Mr. Anderson’s methodology. Other variables would have to be taken into account such as the astronomical appreciation for Blue Note and to an extent first pressing Prestige. On the other hand, some titles/pressings have either not kept pace or have declined in value. Ella/Verve titles, Miles 2 eye Columbia titles and many others for example. Always pays to know one’s market.

By: Adamski

Adamski — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:45:48 +0000

I’d visit a store that used that as a marker!

By: Bill Walter

Bill Walter — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:11:40 +0000

Way back in 1981, I purchased a record price guide called “The Record Collectors Handbook” by Alan Leibowitz. This book served me well until around 2000, but after that, the prices became useless and inaccurate. These days, because the record market changes every year, all price guides become dated and worthless quickly. Instead, I use popsike as it’s current and accurate.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 23:38:16 +0000

I saw it in Barnes and Nobles yesterday. I was excited at first and then put it down when I saw original, NM blue notes priced at 60 bucks. Those prices wouldn’t have been accurate ten years ago.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:13:42 +0000

Daryl — TIP JAR. I like the way you’re thinking. 🙂

By: woody

woody — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:22:07 +0000

Brian- I also bought a 1996 copy of Goldmine in the 90’s as it was the best resource at the time for label and cover details….there were no web based databases at the time. It took me about a couple of years to realize that it incorrectly stated that the Blue Note label address on BLP 4075 to BLP 4100 was was changed from 63rd St. NYC to 61 St. NYC. I had bought Mobley Workout 4075, Ike Quebec 4098, and Dexter Gordon 4083 for under $20 because they were supposedly “2nd” pressings because they had the New York, NYC address not 61St NYC. I asked a couple of Japanese jazz dealers (they had better research/documentation at that time) who were scooping up all the mint Blue Notes at local NYC record shows and they laughed and admitted that there never was a 61st St label, only the address on the back of the jacket changed. I sent a letter to Neal Umphred with my observations but the next Goldmine still included this anomaly.

By: Gregory the Fish

Gregory the Fish — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:01:27 +0000

interesting insights, brian. i know of one brick and mortar store that uses popsike, and another that uses discogs, and neither uses ebay at all. i visit the discogs store a lot. i get lots of bargains. the popsike store? not so much. i also love that in the popsike store, anything that says “coltrane” or “blue note” anywhere on it is apparently automatically worth its NM value plus 10%, despite the fact that it may have one playable track. sigh. some stores don’t realize it, but they are starting shitseums: museums full of shit.

daryl, i do not collect reissues, but your assessment is interesting to me. most collectors that i know are fairly lukewarm on the DMM reissues, and having only heard one myself (something involving herbie hancock, if memory serves me), i have to say i agree based on that single data point. so they are too hot on the high end, yet the dolphy is a good exception? that’s odd to me. there’s a LOT of highs on the record, though maybe they dialed it back specifically more than other releases? who knows. fascinating!

By: Daryl

Daryl — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 03:19:53 +0000

I loved Brian’s detailed note regarding columns and forecasts (w/appreciation) so much that I would gladly send Al a $5 bill for his tip jar based on that post alone. Reading back through the replies, however, I feel as though the Goldmine post was a predictable fresh meat to the wolves at the zoo offering– no diss on authors, merely an expected theme of up-to-the-second values vs. weary printed ones.

My new topic of interest for the community is these Direct Metal Masters that I keep scoring–WOW! Sure, they are a bit hot on the audio highs, but Eric Dolphy’s ‘Out to Lunch” on DMM? So good. Al, can we get a post on this DMM re-issue topic? I will write it if needed.