Another Day, Another Jazz Vinyl Collection

I brought home another collection yesterday. It is an interesting one. It is mostly traditional jazz, but of more recent vintage. There was the full three-volume Mosaic Commodore set in near mint condition. That alone will cover my costs and the time and energy I expended. There were also a lot of 78s, mostly albums in beautiful condition – Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Lee Wiley, and others of that ilk, no bebop at all. There were also some nice 10-inch LPs in near mint condition, including a beautiful Lester Young on Clef and several of the Chet Baker’s on Pacific Jazz.

As I was laboriously going through the records on my porch in The Berkshires yesterday, much to the consternation of the lovely Mrs. JC, I discovered that there were about a dozen 12-inch Blue Note 78s – Sidney Bechet, Albert Ammons, etc. These are in

near mint condition, probably never played. I imagine they may be worth something, and they are certainly cool to look at, and I will have to decide what to do with them. In the meantime, if anyone is interested in traditional jazz – New Orleans, Dixieland, lots of Duke Ellington – you know where to find me. I’m not sure exactly why I purchased these records, other than the usual case of jazz vinyl addition, but that self-analysis will have to wait until another post. For now I have a bunch more records to look at.