Comments on: A Misadventure in Jazz Collecting, Part 2

By: Michel

Michel — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:31:40 +0000

Someone said “There is something worse than ignorancy : it is half knowledge”. And it is often what happens when trying to buy the collection (or the bulk of record) directly from the (not exactly in this case) widow.

By: geoffrey wheeler

geoffrey wheeler — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 08:41:58 +0000

It’s hard for me to identify individual covers in the grouping of 17, .but from what little I can tell, they are not all Blue Notes. For example, the one at the bottom is a Bethlehem 10-inch “Happy Minor” (BCP-1033) featuring Red Mitchell, Bob Brookmeyer, and Zoot Sims. Cover photograph by Burt Goldblatt.

By: rl1856

rl1856 — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:35:54 +0000

I’ve had some encounters with “book pricers”. I generally go into excruciatingly gory detail regarding the perils of online selling to overseas buyers….and I always remind them how much the house takes from each sale. I also point out the dangers of having multiple tire kickers come into their home to look around…. I’ve been moderately successful. And cash gets attention. When I make an offer, I show actual cash.

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:50:56 +0000

OK, I’ll jump to the conclusion … you didn’t buy the collection, and she ultimately sold it to the Seller Who Shall Not Be Named. Spoiler alert? 🙂

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:46:45 +0000

“So what. Need really has nothing to do with it.”
A quote for the ages … especially for us JC vinylheads. LOL … love it.

I’m hooked on this story … living vicariously through Mr. Al.

I’m still looking for my goldmine … probably by the time I find it … if I find it … I won’t be able to afford it. 🙂

By: Lennib

Lennib — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:02:18 +0000

When I owned a record store, one of the more interesting , with respect to overall bizarreness, collections I looked at belonged to a somewhat well known disc jockey in the Chicago area. What made this collection interesting/bizarre was that all the records and covers were separated and in different boxes scattered all over the house. A unique way of arranging. Of course, I was not the first to see this, some others had gone through the boxes as I would, for no other reason than I was there, having made the trip to a south side suburb. And of course, there were scads of records for which no covers could be found and scads of covers for which no records could be found. And we’re talking the kinds of records ‘Jazz Collector’readers salivate over. After hours of this puzzle, I managed to collate about 175 lps.
I’m sure you know how this all ended.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:20:57 +0000

FYI, installment three will be tomorrow, not today. Still writing. Probably two more installments, maybe three. I’m curious myself how it all turns out, in terms of how I write it, not how it ends up.

By: James

James — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:43:07 +0000

Also another (true) story.
Back in the 70s an acquaintance of mine’s affair with another woman resulted in him discovering his huge collection of rare soul singles,amassed at great expense over many years,on a huge bonfire in the back garden when he went back to the house to pick them up.
A woman scorned…….!

By: James

James — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:36:07 +0000

There’s a great story in Nick Hornby’s book Hi Fidelity about buying a huge soul music collection from a vengeful wife.
You can imagine how that pans out!

By: Terry Knapp

Terry Knapp — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:29:03 +0000

Don’t know how this will turn out, but these are the kind of stories I love on your site. Heck, I’d love them even if you were making them up: Vinyl fiction a whole new genre like Valin’s detective novel on RCA Living Stereo.