Comments on: Win a Free Collectible: Red Rodney Plays Bird

By: Jim Thornton

Jim Thornton — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:51:46 +0000

This is a recording that deserves to be heard. Red
made some great sides for Muse and very little of
this work has made it to CD.

By: bethellodge

bethellodge — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:26:46 +0000

The idea of paying $2000 for any record is confusing enough, but as a commodity, like any other, I suppose trading in it as an investment has some merit. As to opening a sealed $2000 record and playing it for a supposed “perfect first play”, that’s smells to me like vintage wine… a bit bourgeois for jazz isn’t it?

By: Steve H

Steve H — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:16:58 +0000

If you are a dealer, yes, you leave it sealed. If you are a music lover, you’re buying a sealed copy because it’s nearly guaranteed to play perfectly, and you want to enjoy the music it contains in as pristine a state as possible. You are paying the extra for that perfect first play.

By: Michel

Michel — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:42:21 +0000

A sealed record has to remain sealed, especially if you paid it heavy $$. Many reasons : if you deseal it and moreover you play it : by doing so, you will be the one who alterate the value of the record, after having been the craziest bidder for a sealed record… nonsense. Another reason is you do not want to realize that it is in not NM at all ; or it is not an original. In other words, you buy a sealed record not to open it, but because you imagine what is inside. And this has no price…