Comments on: A Really Rare Record & an “Insanely Rare” Record https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/ For those who love jazz Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:10:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mike D. https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-450857 Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:10:43 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-450857 Does anyone know for sure whether the pictured 901 release above on the yellow label was pressed in 1949 or 1950? It’s been established that the DLP-1 was released in mid-1949, but I’m not as sure about LP 901 on the yellow label (not the red and yellow reissue).

Billboard does review the album on p. 65 of their Dec. 24, 1949 issue, and lists a catalog number of Dial (33) 901, so it seems that at least a few advance copies were available by that time.

Based on matrix descriptions posted in discogs and on ebay, DLP-1 and LP-901 on the yellow label, pictured have, the same matrix information in the runout, and it differs from the matrix information for the red and yellow reissue.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

]]> By: London Calling https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-240268 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:07:37 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-240268 I find myself looking at Fred’s current or opening price, and I just nod, yup, yup, yup
He reflects exactly the desirability and scarcity of every record. The fact I couldn’t or wouldn’t pay that is beside the point. That is my problem, not Freds.I think he has his finger on the pulse. Correction. Fred is the pulse.

]]> By: zarabeth47 https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-239726 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:51:36 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-239726 He’s back. The great obfuscator. So easy to spot: he’s selling a TEN YEARS AFTER – WATT lp he sold(didn’t sell) last time and the list goes on! Let’s see who he decieves this time.

http://ww.popsike.com/TEN-YEARS-AFTERWATTORIG-1971-DERAM-LP-wPOSTERMINT/160640461914.html

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TEN-YEARS-AFTER-WATT-ORIG-1971-DERAM-LP-w-POSTER-MINT-/140605873800?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item20bcc35e88

]]> By: Mattyman https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-239657 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:27:25 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-239657 I have the Burrell/Jenkins. On a Japanese King pressing from 1981, that is. Damage: $83 -Fred Cohen’s opening price for the 1573 is $1,000 and we still have a little over 6 days to go. In other words: I’m out. Again. 😉

]]> By: Andy https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-239441 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:48:37 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-239441 That Burrell/Jenkins would look really nice in my collection, but yeah, I’m instantly priced out.

]]> By: lennib https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-239381 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:47:19 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-239381 Great tale Andy. Reminds me of the time, well I am sure we all have stories of the one or ones that got away.
Anyway Fred Cohen has a new eBay auction up:
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/jazzrecordcenter_W0QQLHQ5fAuctionZ1QQ_trksidZp3911Q2ec0Q2em283
with some very tasty Blue Notes that are SOOO far out of my price range that it isn’t funny

]]> By: bill https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-239380 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:44:49 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-239380 Dial 901 isn’t even the original issue. A few months earlier Ross Russell had been selling this record as DLP 1 through mail order only. Everything the same except for the number. A few years ago I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of 901 in VG+ condition (but no writing on the label). It sold for $980 on ebay.

]]> By: Andy https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-239302 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:11:39 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-239302 Re: Parker,

I was at an estate sale in Chicago some years back. The ad for the sale claimed there would be a lot of records there; and as I stood in line to get in I struck up a conversation with the fellow standing beside me. Turned out he was an exac from a local blues label and was a collector just like me. We were pretty far back in the line and we reckoned that we were gonna be s.o.l. as far as vinyl goes.

When we eventually made it in, much to our surprise the records remained untouched! A small pile sat on the couch and this guy jumped forward and grabbed them all. I walked a little further and saw a beautiful Thorens turntable and sitting next to that was a stack of ten inches which I promptly picked up. I carried them around looking for more vinyl but finding nothing.

I ran into my new friend about twenty minutes later and we compared finds. I had a bunch of prestige, discovery, and blue note ten inches (nothing too valuable unfortunately). He had a bunch of 12 inches which for the most part didn’t interest me all that much with one exception.. The Bird Blows the Blues on Dial.

The cost per record, a dollar each. I still kick myself for not being a little quicker on the draw.

]]> By: Andy https://jazzcollector.com/prestige/a-really-rare-record-an-insanely-rare-record/comment-page-1/#comment-239299 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:03:32 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3967#comment-239299 It’s from his own personal collection!!!

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